E. DENMARK 

 1. FISHERIES 



a. Agreement Relating to Conservation of Atlantic Salmon, 



July 6, 1972* 



Effected hy exchange of notes Signed at Washington July 6, 1972; 

 Entered into force July 6, 1972. 



The Danish Charge d''Aff aires ad interim to the Acting Secretary 



of State 



danish embassy 

 washington, d.c. 



July 6, 1972 

 Sir, 



I have the honor to refer to the proposal adopted by the Inter- 

 national Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries in Wash- 

 ington, D.C. on June 2nd regarding Conservation of Atlantic Salmon. 

 The proposal which incorporated the substance of the understanding 

 reached at the U.S.-Danish talks on February 5, 1972, implies inter 

 alia that the catch of Atlantic salmon will be regulated in 1972 (and 

 subsequent years). In spite of the efforts of the member states to have 

 the proposal put into effect at an earlier date than provided under 

 article VIII of the International Convention for the Northwest 

 Atlantic Fisheries, [^] it seems unlikely that the proposal will come 

 into effect in the immediate future. 



I have, therefore, been instructed to propose that, pending the 

 coming into effect of the said proposal adopted by ICNAF, our two 

 Governments agree as follows : 



A. Denmark will phase out by December 31, 1975 all of their fisheries 

 for Atlantic salmon off Greenland, except those carried out by local 

 fishermen of Greenland. Such a phase out will be accomplished by 

 appropriate measures at the discretion of the Danish Government and 

 designed to limit the round weight of their non-Greenland salmon 

 catch in the Northwest Atlantic in the calendar years of 1972, 1973, 

 1974, and 1975 to an approximate level of 800, 600, 550 and 500 metric 

 tons respectively. 



Failure to achieve these catch objectives in any of the four years 

 will be followed by an adjustment in the following year's catch. 



B. The annual salmon catch by local Greenland fishermen will be at 

 the approximate level of the average of the annual catches measured 

 from 1964 through 1971, which is estimated to be 1100 metric tons. 



* Citation : 23 UST 1278 ; TIAS 7402. 



^ TIAS 2089, 6011, 6840, 6841, T432 ; 1 I7ST 482 ; 17 UST 636 ; 21 UST 568, 577; 

 23 UST. 



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