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C. The United States will endeavour to ensure the application of 

 appropriate conservation measures applicable to the 12 mile zone of 

 the United States which would correspond in effect to the measures 

 taken by Denmark (i.e. using the catch levels of 1969 as a base). 



If the proposal as set forth above is agreeable to the Government 

 of the United States of America, the Government of Denmark will be 

 pleased to consider this note and your reply concurring therein as con- 

 stituting an agreement between our two Governments, which shall 

 enter into force on the date of your affirmative reply. 



Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. 



Hans J. Christensen 



Hans J. Christensen 

 Charge d/ Aff aires a.L 

 The Honorable 



U. Alexis Johnson 



The Acting Secretai'^ of State of 

 the United States of America 

 Washington 



The Acting Secretary of State to the Danish Charge d'' Affaires 



ad inter itn 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

 WASHINGTON 



JULT 6, 1972 



Sir: 



I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note dated July 6^ 

 1972, which reads as follows : 

 "Sir, 



"I have the honor to refer to the i)roposal 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 Conven- 

 tion 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 wil phase out by December 31, 1975 all of their fish- 

 eries 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. 



