890 



a. Eefrain from fishing during the period from January 1 

 through April 30 in the area bounded by straight lines connecting 

 the following coordinates : 



North Latitude West Longitude 



40°05' 71°40' 



39°50' 7l°40' 



. 37°50' 74:°00' 



37°10' 74:°29' 



36°30' 74°40' 



36°30' 74°48' 



37°10' 74°48' 



37°50' 74°25' 



38°24' 73°44' 



39°40' 72°32' 



b. Refrain from conducting specialized fisheries in all instances 

 for scup (Stenotomus chrysops (L.)), bluefish (Pomatomus sala- 

 trix (L.)), flounders (Paralichthys dentatus (L.) — "summer"); 

 (Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walb.) — "winter") ; (Limanda 

 ferruginea (Storer) — "yellowtail"), red hake (Urophycis chuss 

 (Walb.)), silver hake (Merluccius) bilinearis (Mitch.)), men- 

 haden (Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe)), black sea bass (Centro- 

 pristes striatus (L.)), and river herring (Alosa pseudoharengus 



- (Wils.) — "alewife") ; (Alosa aestivalis (Mitch.) — "blueback") in 

 the waters situated west and south of Sub-area 5 of the Area of 

 the International Convention for the Northwest Atlantic Fish- 

 eries, signed in Washington on Februarj^ 8, 1949, [^] and north of 

 the parallel of 34° North Latitude, except for menhaden where 

 the southern boundarj^ shall be 30° North Latitude. 



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

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

 silver hake, menhaden, black sea bass and river herring to a maxi- 

 mum total of two hundred metric tons per annum, provided that 

 no more than one-third of such incidental catch shall be of any 

 one of the species mentioned above. Incidental catch is that catch 

 taken unintentionally when conducting specialized fisheries for 

 other species. 



d. If necessary, the competent authorities of the two contracting 

 parties may agree to modify the above-mentioned areas. 



2. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to vessels under 

 110 feet (33.5 meters) in length and to vessels fishing for Crustacea or 

 molluscs. 



Article 3 



In order to avoid excess catches of bottom fish, when such species 

 tend to concentrate in coastal areas, the competent authorities of Eo- 

 mania will limit the fishing operations of Romanian vessels to mid- 

 water trawling, using mid-water trawl doors incapable of being fished 

 on the bottom, during the period from June 1 through December 31 in 

 the area adjacent to the United States coast north of 38°24' North Lat- 

 itude and west of a line connecting the following coordinates : 



1 TIAS 2089 ; 1 UST 477. 



