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AGREEMENT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF DOLPHINSAgreement for the Conservation of Dolphins • June 8th, 2017
The governments listed in Appendix I recall and reaffirm the resolution adopted during a Special Meeting of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) held in La Jolla, California, on April 21-23, 1992, to adopt a multilateral program with the objectives of (1) progressively reducing dolphin mortality in the eastern Pacif- ic Ocean (EPO) fishery to levels approaching zero through the setting of annual limits and (2), with a goal of elimi- nating dolphin mortality in this fishery, seeking ecologically sound means of capturing large yellowfin tunas not in association with dolphins while maintaining the populations of yellowfin tuna in the EPO at a level which will per- mit maximum sustained catches year after year, and to limit and, if possible, eliminate the mortality of dolphins in the fishery of the EPO as follows:
