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DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of No- 

 vember in the year of onr Lord one thousand nine hundred 



[seal] seventy-two and of the Independence of the United States 

 of America the one hundred ninety-seventh. 



Richard Nixon. 

 By the President: 



William P. Rogers 



Secretary of State 



Protocol to the International Convention for the Northwest 

 Atlantic Fisheries Relating to Panel Membership and to Regu- 

 latory Measures 



The Governments parties to the International Convention for the 

 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries signed at Washington under date of 

 8 February 1949, which Convention as amended [^] is hereinafter 

 referred to as the Convention, desiring to establish a more appro- 

 priate basis for the determination of representation on the Panels 

 established under the Convention, and desiring to provide for greater 

 flexibility in the types of fisheries regulatory measures which may be 

 proposed by the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic 

 Fisheries, agree as follows : 



Article I 



Paragraph 2 of Article IV of the Convention shall be amended to 

 read as follows : 



"2. Panel representation shall be reviewed annually by the 

 Commission, which shall have the power, subject to consultation 

 with the Panel concerned, to determine representation on each 

 Panel on the basis of current substantial exploitation of the stocks 

 of fish in the subarea concerned or on the basis of current sub- 

 stantial exploitation of harp and hood seals in the Convention 

 Area, except that each Contracting Government with coastline 

 adjacent to a subarea shall have the right of representation on 

 the Panel for the subarea." 



Article II 



Paragraph 2 of Article VII of the Convention shall be amended to 

 read as follows : 



"2. Each Panel, upon the basis of scientific investigations, and 

 economic and technical considerations, may make recommenda- 

 tions to the Commission for joint action by the Contracting Gov- 

 ernments within the scope of paragraph 1 of Article VIII." 



Article III 



Paragraph 1 of Article VIII of the Convention shall be amended 

 to read as follows: 



1 TIAS 2089, 4170, 5380, 6011, 6840, 6841 ; 1 UST 477 ; 10 UST 59 ; 14 UST 924 

 17 UST 635 ; 21 UST 567, 576. 



