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Article 2 



1. Each Government will take appropriate measures for the pur- 

 pose of maintaining the fish stocks. For this reason, each Government 

 shall ensure that its citizens and vessels will : 



a. Refrain from fishing during the period from January 1 

 through April 15 in the area bounded by straight lines connecting 

 the following coordinates : 



West Longitude 

 71°40' 

 71°40' 

 74°00' 

 74°29' 

 74°40' 

 74°48' 

 74°48' 

 74°25' 

 73°44' 

 72°32' 



Provided, however, that in this area fishing with pelagic (mid- 

 water) gear will be permitted south of 37°50' North Latitude ; 



b. Eefrain from conducting specialized fisheries in all instances 

 for scup, flounders, red hake, silver hake, menhaden, black sea 

 bass, river herring, and bluefisli in the waters situated west and 

 south of Sub-area 5 of the Area of the International Convention 

 for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, signed in Washington on 

 February 8, 1949, [^j and north of the parallel of 34° North Lati- 

 tude ; 



c. Limit, in the area specified in sub-paragraph b. of this para- 

 graph, their incidental catch of scup, flounders, red hake, silver 

 hake, menhaden, black sea bass, river herring, and bluefish to a 

 maximum total of one thousand three hundred metric tons per 

 annum, provided that no more than one-third of such incidental 

 above. Incidental catch is that catch taken unintentionally when 

 conducting specialized fisheries for other species. 



2. Polish fishing vessels shall : 



a. Refrain from engaging in the intentional catching of lobster 

 Oif the Atlantic coast of the United States north of Cape Hatteras, 

 shall continue to take appropriate measures to minimize incidental 

 catches of lobster in specialized fisheries for other species, and 

 shall return to the sea in a viable condition all lobster taken inci- 

 dentally insofar as possible ; 



■ TIAS 2089. 5380, 6840, 6841 ; 1 UST 477 ; 14 UST 924 ; 21 UST 567, 576. 



