Fisheries: North Pacific driftnet - Agreement between the United States of America and Japan

The Fisheries Agency of Japan proposes to the United States the Japanese High Seas Driftnet Fishery 1990 Observer Program, Arrangements for Observation of Japanese High Seas Driftnet Operations for 1990, and Regulatory Enforcement and Information Gathering Program of the Government of Japan on the Japanese High Seas Squid and Large-mesh Driftnet Fisheries for the 1990. The United States accepts to participate in programs to collect and snare scientific data, but protests the decision of the Japanese Government to extend the Northern boundary of squid fishery for July and August, and supports revision of this boundary for next year if the results of the scientific program proposed warrants a change. the Program provides for the deployment of a team of observeres consisting of Canadian, U.S. and Japanese scientific observers, for data collection, data exchange and reporting and for coordination of research (Annex A). Annex B describes the arrangements for the implementation of scientific observer programs on board of Japanese high seas driftnet vessels in the North Pacific Ocean for 1990.