in the exclusive fishery zone of the other during the five years beginning on Jan. 1, 1968, was not to 

 exceed the total catch during the five years preceding that date. 



The agreement also provides for (1) the continuation of sport fishing by United States citizens in the 

 Mexican exclusive fishery zone during the five years starting on Jan. 1, 1968; (2) an extensive exchange 

 of data on the areas in which traditional fishing has been carried on and the volume of catch over 

 the past five years, the number and types of vessels and fishing gear used, and the names of vessels 

 that will operate under the terms of the agreement; (3) annual meetings to review the operation of the 

 Agreement; (4) the exchange of annual reports on volumes of catch and areas fished; (5) cooperation in 

 formulating and implementing a program of scientific research and conservation of the stocks of shrimp 

 and fish of common concern off the coast of Mexico, pursuant to the Geneva Convention on Fishing and 

 Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, to which both nations are Parties. 



Each nation will have responsibility for enforcing the Agreement within its own fishery zone. 



Ml. MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS TO WHICH UNITED STATES IS NOT A PARTY 



There are a number of multilateral agreements affecting international fisheries to which the United 

 States does not adhere— principally because of lack of sufficient interest in the area concerned. These 

 include the General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean, the Regional Fisheries Advisory 

 Commission for the Southwest Atlantic, both of which are FAO sub-bodies, the International 

 Conunission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea; the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries 

 Convention; the European Fisheries Conference; the Joint Commission for Fisheries Cooperation; and 

 the Convention for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). 



Only ICES will be here described because the United States was once a member of ICES and plans to 

 join again.^ ' * 



ICES was formed in 1902.^''' Its original statutes were revised in 1950^^* and the latter were 

 superseded when the Convention for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which was 

 signed Sept. 12, 1964, came into force on July 22, 1967."' 



The States Parties to the convention are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Federal Republic of 

 Germany, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the 

 United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.^^° 



Until the new convention, and despite its name, ICES was regional in scope. For over 60 years, its 

 membership was limited to European governments whose nationals exploited the waters of the 

 Northeast Atlantic. In recent years, however, ICES has enlarged its scope of interest and this is reflected 

 in the new convention. Under the new convention, ICES "shall be concerned with the Atlantic Ocean 

 and its adjacent seas, and primarily . . . with the North Atlantic."^* ' 



A. Objectives 



ICES' principal function is to encourage investigations into the study of the sea and to coordinate the 

 operations of the participating govertmients to this end. 



Information supplied by Nation Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. 



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Report of the UN Secietaiy General, supra note 120, Annex XII, at p. 2. 



Carroz and Roche, The Proposed International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, 61 Am. J. 

 Int'l.L. 673, 675, n.8 (1967). 



Convention, Art. II. 



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