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JOINT STATEMENT OF 28 NOVEMBER 1990 ESTABLISHING THE SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES COMMISSION BACKGROUND - '90 Joint Statement - '90 Proclamation - '86 Declaration - '86 Proclamation In 1986 the British Government established a system of fisheries jurisdiction, kown as the Falkland Islands Conservation and Management Zone (FICZ) in order to bring the fishery under control and to preserve stocks around the Falkland Islands. The zone, which became effective on 1 February 1987, covered an area of a 150-mile radius, measured from a point in the centre of the Islands (but modified slightly in the south west to reduce the area of overlap with Argentina's 200-mile zone). Within the zone a number of measures were implemented, the principal one being the issuing of licences to individual vessels to fish in the FICZ. In December 1990 the zone was extended to the north, east and south of the Islands (the Falkland Islands Outer Conservation Zone (FOCZ)) to deal with unregulated fishing beyond the FICZ. At the same time the British and Argentine Governments agreed to establish the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission, composed of delegations from Britain and Argentina with participation by Falkland Islands scientists as part of the British delegation. The first meetings took place in Buenos Aires and London in 1991, and meetings have been held regularly ever since. The Commission assesses the state of fish stocks in the South Atlantic, collects and analyses information from both parties on the operation of the fishing fleets, makes proposals on joint scientific research, and makes recommendations for the conservation of the most significant offshore species.
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