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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

SIXPENCE NET

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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.