The World - News from March 9, 1986

An agreement phasing out Japanese salmon fishing in international waters off Alaska was reached in U.S.-Japanese talks in Tokyo. The agreement, subject to Canadian approval, provides that Japanese “mother ships” will stop salmon fishing in the eastern half of the Bering Sea in 1988 and in the western half by 1994. The two sides also agreed that Japanese fishing in U.S. 200-mile territorial waters will be limited to 140 “fleet days.” A “fleet day” is a day’s operations by a fleet and its mother ship.