Agreement and for that purpose shall permit duly authorized officers of the other government to board 

 its vessels engaged in the king crab fishery in the Eastern Bering Sea. These officers will make a report on 

 the results of their observations and their report will be forwarded to the flag government for 

 appropriate action if that should be necessary. 



4. The two governments are to continue and intensify their study of the king crab resources and will 

 exchange annually the data resulting from the study including, to the extent possible, an estimate of the 

 maximum sustained yield of the resource. The data will be prepared by each government in accordance 

 with its own methodology. The two governments will also provide for the exchange of scientific 

 personnel engaged in the study of the king crab resource. 



H. Agreement Between the United States and the Soviet Union on Certain Fishery Problems in the 

 Northeastern Part of the Pacific Ocean off the Coast of the United States^ ^° 



This Agreement, of one year's duration, specified several areas seaward of the twelve mile line off the 

 Oregon-Washington coast in which Soviet vessels would either refrain from fishing or from concentrating 

 their efforts. In certain other areas off the Oregon-Washington coast, measures would be taken jointly 

 and separately, to protect stocks offish. 



Additional protection would be provided for fishing gear of United States halibut fishermen, early in 

 the halibut season, in areas near Kodiak Island, Alaska. Under the Agreement, Soviet vessels would 

 transfer cargoes in several designated areas off Washington and Oregon and off Alaska in the nine-mile 

 zone contiguous to the United States territorial sea. Soviet vessels would also continue to fish within the 

 nine-mile zone for the duration of the Agreement in the two areas of the central and western Aleutians 

 and a smaller area in the northern Gulf of Alaska. The Agreement also provides for cooperation in 

 scientific research, exchange of scientific data and personnel, exchanges of fishermen and/or their 

 representatives aboard vessels of the two countries, and general procedures for reducing conflicts 

 between the vessels and gear of the two countries. 



In December 1967, representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union began in Washington a 

 review of these fishing agreements. The United States delegation sought expansion of the high seas areas 

 off Oregon and Washington where Soviet fishing would not take place. Because of the growing king crab 

 fisheries in Alaska, in areas other than Kodiak, the United States also sought seasonal protective 

 measures to minimize gear conflict in these additional areas. Finally, the United States sought protection 

 for the Kodiak crab fishery through expansion of closed areas and extension of the closure period. 



The Soviet delegation took the position that the Soviet Union had not been adequately compensated 

 for its concessions. It sought permission for Soviet fishing in the exclusive fisheries zone claimed by the 

 United States. 



Discussions were inconclusive. It was decided on Dec. 18, 1967 that the agreements should continue 

 unchanged for another year.^*' Since the king crab quota arrangements in the eastern Bering Sea 

 will come up at the same time, it was understood that all three agreements would be considered 

 together. 



^*°This Agreement was signed at Washington, Feb. 13, 1967, entered into force, Feb. 13, 1967, 18 U.S.T. 190, 

 T.I.A.S. No. 6218. 



^* ^Agreement on Extending Validity of Agreement of Feb. 13, 1967 between the United States and the Soviet 

 Union on Certain Fishery Problems in the Northeastern Part of the Pacific Ocean off the Coast of the United States, 

 signed at Washington, Dec. 18, 1967, entered into force Dec. 18, 1967, with exchange of letters relating thereto and to 

 the Agreement of Dec. 14, 1964. T.I.A.S. No. 6409. 



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