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by the scientists of both countries. The exchange of scientific and 

 statistical data shall include, i7ite?' alia, information on methods 

 of analysis and data on by-catches. 

 2. The Government of the' United States of America and the Gov- 

 ernment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for the purpose of 

 reproduction and maintenance of fish stocks, will take appropriate 

 measures to ensure that their citizens and vessels will : 



a. Refrain from fishing during the period from January 1 

 through April 15, to ensure access of red hake and silver hake to 

 the spawning grounds and to protect certain winter concentrations 

 of scup and flounders; said abstention will apply to an area of 

 the Mid-Atlantic bounded by straight lines connecting the follow- 

 ing coordinates in the order listed : 



North Latitude West Longitude 



40°05' 71°40' 



39°50' 71°40' 



37°50' 74°00' 



37°60' 74°25' 



38°24' 73°44' 



39°40' 72°32' 



b. Refrain from increasing the catch of scup, flounders, and 

 black sea bass above the 1967 levels in the Avaters situated west 

 and south of Sub-area 5 of the Convention area of the 1949 Inter- 

 national Convention for the Xorthwest Atlantic Fisheries [^] and 

 north of 34° North Latitude ; 



c. Refrain, in the waters specified in sub-paragraph b of this 

 paragraph, from conducting specialized fisheries for scup, flound- 

 ers, bluefish, and river herring in all instances, and from increas- 

 ing their incidental catch of these species, that is, the catch taken 

 unintentionally when conducting siDecialized fisheries for other 

 species ; 



d. Refrain, in the waters situated west and south of Sub-area 5 

 of the Convention area of the 1949 International Convention for 

 the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries and north of 30° North Lati- 

 tude, from fishing menhaden during the period from January 1 

 through April 30, and from increasing the incidental catch of this 

 species ; 



e. Limit their catches of silver hake, red hake, and flounders 

 (other than yellowtail) from the southern New England stocks 

 so that the aggregate catches of silver hake, red hake, and flound- 

 ers (other than yellowtail) from these stocks shall not exceed the 

 national allocations agreed upon in the International Commission 

 for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) ; 



f. Limit their catches of sea herring and mackerel from the 

 Mid- Atlantic stocks so that the aggregate catches of sea herring 

 and mackerel from these stocks shall not exceed the agreed upon 

 ICNAF national allocations and shall comply with applicable 

 ICNAF size limitations ; 



iTIAS 2089, 6S40, 6841, 7432; 1 UST 488; 21 UST 567, 576; 23 UST 1504. 



