Protocol Between The Government Of Canada And The Government Of The United States Of America To Amend The Convention For The Protection, Preservation And Extension Of The Sockeye Salmon Fisheries In The Fraser River System, As Amended
Source: Ruster and Simma, Volume XXV, p. 234
The Government of Canada and the Government of .the United States of America, parties to the Convention for the Protection, Preservation and Extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River System signed at Washington on May 26, 1930, and to the Protocol signed at Ottawa, December 28, 1956, amending the aforesaid Convention,
Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
Paragraph 3 of the understandings stipulated in the Protocol of Exchange of Ratifications signed at Washington on July 28, 1937, and amended by the Protocol signed at Ottawa on December 28, 1956, amending the Convention for the Protection, Preservation and Extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River System, signed at Washington on May 26, 1930, shall be further amended to read as follows:
"That the Commission shall set up an Advisory Committee composed of seven persons from each country who shall be representatives of the various branches of the industry, including, but not limited to, purse seine, gill net, troll, sport fishing and processing, which Advisory Committee shall be invited to all non-executive meetings of the Commission and shall be given full opportunity to examine and to be heard on all proposed orders, regulations, or recommendations."
ARTICLE II
The present Protocol shall be subject to ratification and the exchange of the instruments of ratification shall take place in Ottawa as soon as possible. This Protocol shall come into force on the day of the exchange of instruments of ratification.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed this Protocol.
DONE in duplicate, in the French and English languages, both equally authentic, at Washington this twenty-fourth day of February 1977.
For the Government of the United States of America:
FREDERICK IRVING.
For the Government of Canada :
J. RUSSELL McKINNEY.
