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DIEU
DROLT
Miscellaneous No. 4 (1949)
International Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Conference
Final Act and Convention
Washington, 8th February, 1949
[The Convention has not yet been ratified by the Government of the United Kingdom ]
Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
LONDON
HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY office
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INTERNATIONAL NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES
31 UF OOZ CONFERENCE, FINAL ACT AND CONVENTION
Washington, 8th February, 1949
[The Convention has not yet been ratified by the Government of the United Kingdom]
FINAL ACT
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The Governments of Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Newfound- land, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, represented by pleni- potentiary delegations;
Having accepted the invitation extended to them by the Government of the United States of America to participate in an International Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Conference; and
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea having accepted the invitation extended to them by the Government of the United States of America to send observers to the said Conference;
Appointed their respective representatives, who are listed below by countries, and by organisations in the order of alphabetical precedence:
Canada
Delegate-
Stewart Bates, Deputy Minister of Fisheries, Department of Fisheries,
Chairman.
Alternate Delegate---
A. W. H. Needler, Assistant Deputy Minister of Fisheries, Department of
Fisheries.
Advisers
S. V. Ozere, Legal Adviser, Department of Fisheries.
F. M. Tovell, Department of External Affairs.
Secretary-
F. H. Wooding, Information Officer, Department of Fisheries.
Denmark
Delegates-
B. Dinesen, Head of Department, Ministry of Fisheries, Chairman. A. Vedel Täning, Head of Section, Commission for Denmark's Fisheries
and Ocean Research.
Commodore Fritz Aage. Hammer Kjølsen, Naval Attaché, Embassy of
Denmark, Washington.
Laur. Thygesen, Chairman, West Jutland Fisheries Association.
Kristian Bjughyfg Member, Local Governmept, Faroe Islands
Paul Hansen, Fisheries Biologist to the Administration of Greenland. Niels Bjerregaard, Chairman, Danish Fisheries Association.
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France
Delegates P. 314. of 662.
Page 314 Marius Terrin, Directeur des Pêches Maritimes au Ministère de la Marine
Marchande, Chairman.
Jean Joseph Le Gall, Directeur de l'Office Scientifique et Technique des
Pêches Maritimes.
Robert Baudouy, Directeur par interim des Unions Internationales au
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
Captain Louis J. Audigou, Administrateur en chef de l'Inscription Maritime,
Washington.
Andre Dezeustre, Mission de la Marine Marchande aux U.S.A., Bath Iron
Works Corporation, Bath, Maine.
Iceland
Delegates
Thor Thors, Minister to the United States, Legation of Iceland,
Washington, Chairman.
H. G. Andersen, Legal Adviser, Foreign Office.
Arni Fridriksson, Director of the Fishery Department, University Research
Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Italy
Delegates
Alberto Tarchiani, Ambassador to the United States, Embassy of Italy,
Washington, Chairman.
Clemente Boniver, Commercial Counsellor, Embassy of Italy, Washington. Gian Vincenzo Soro, First Secretary, Embassy of Italy, Washington. ak Aldo Ziglioli, Assistant Commercial Attaché, Embassy of Italy,
Washington.
Salvatore Ippia, First Commercial Secretary, Embassy of Italy,
Washington.
Newfoundland
Delegates-
Raymond Gushue, Chairman, Newfoundland Fisheries Board, Chairman. Dr. W. Templeman, Director, Newfoundland Government Laboratory.
Norway
Delegates-
Klaus Sunnanaa, Director of Fisheries, Directorate of Fisheries, Chairman. Gunnar Rollefsen, Director of Institute of Marine Research, Directorate of
Fisheries.
Olav Lund, Division Chief, Directorate of Fisheries.
Technical Advisers-
Finn Bryhni, Norwegian Fishermen's Union.
Knut Vartdal, Aalesund Shipowners' Association.
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Magne Oppedal, Commercial Attaché, Embassy of Norway, Washington.
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Delegates-
Portugal
Rear Admiral Manuel C. Meyrelles, President of the Central Commission
on Fisheries, Chairman.
Dr. Alfredo M. Ramalho, Director, Government Marine Biology Station. Dr. Corrêa de Barros, Vice-President of Court of Accounting, Treasury
Department.
Captain Tavares de Almeida, Fishery Department.
Delegates-
Spain
Germán Baráibar, Minister Plenipotentiary and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim,
Embassy of Spain, Washington, Chairman.
Capitán de Navío Alvaro Guitián, Naval Attaché, Embassy of Spain,
Washington.
José Miguel Ruiz-Morales, First Secretary of Embassy, Dirección General
de Política Económica, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid.
Pedro Díaz de Espada, Shipowner, San Sebastian.
Delegates-
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
A. T. A. Dobson, Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Chairman. A. J. Aglen, Fisheries Secretary, Scottish Home Department.
Advisers-
J. S. Fawcett, Legal Adviser, British Embassy, Washington.
S. J. Holt, Scientific Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Dr. C. E. Lucas, Director, Fisheries Research, Scottish Home Department. P. J. Macfarlan, Assistant Agricultural Attaché, British Embassy,
Washington.
D. C. Tebbit, Second Secretary, British Embassy, Washington.
R. S. Wimpenny, Deputy Director, Fisheries Research, Ministry of Agri-
culture and Fisheries.
Delegates-
United States of America
Wilbert M. Chapman, Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary for Fisheries
and Wildlife, Department of State, Chairman.
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William E. S. Flory, Deputy Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary for
Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of State.
Hilary J. Deason, Chief, Office of Foreign Activities, Fish and Wildlife
Service, Department of the Interior.
Frederick L. Zimmermann, Consultant on Fisheries and Wildlife, Depart-
ment of State.
Advisers-
Thomas Fulham, President, Federated Fishing Boats of New England and
New York, Inc.
Wayne D. Heydecker, Secretary-Treasurer, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission, New York City.
Milton C. James, Assistant Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Depart-
Ragn of the finferior.