* [Reproduced from the text provided by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). High Contracting Parties to the IATTC Convention are: Costa Rica, France, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela. Non-party states that signed the La Jolla Agreement are: Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain. The Convention for the Establishment of an Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission appears at 1 UST 230, TIAS 2044.

[The IATTC adopted a Resolution on Dolphin Mortality Limits for 1994 on October 27, 1993, "recognizing the significant progress achieved by the Parties to the 1992 La Jolla Agreement (the Agreement) in reducing dolphin mortalities in the eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO), and in accordance with the decision made by the Parties in Vanuatu in June 1993 to review the schedule for dolphin mortality reductions prescribed in the Agreement." The Parties agreed, "while maintaining the schedule prescribed in the [La Jolla] Agreement, to reduce the permissible limit beyond the commitment made in the schedule for year 1994, by adopting a limit of 9,300 ... for total dolphin mortalities in the EPO in 1994. This represents a reduction of 40 percent from the existing mortality limit of 15,500 .... In accordance with this decision, the Parties direct the International Review Panel to assign Dolphin Mortality Limits (DMLs) for 1994 to individual vessels based on the total EPO limit of 9,300." The Parties further agreed that, "in each successive year covered by the schedule in the Agreement, they will review the schedule for future years, with the objective of determining whether reductions in that schedule can be achieved."]