Title: Exchange of notes between Peru and Bolivia establishing a joint commission for study of…joint        

use of the waters of Lake Titicaca

Parties: Bolivia, Peru

Basin: Lake Titicaca

Date: 7/17/1935

Bolivia-Peru

PRELIMINARY CONVENTION¹  BETWEEN BOLIVIA AND PERU FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF FISHERIES IN LAKE TITICACA.  SIGNED AT LIMA, ON 17 JULY 1935²

The Governments of Bolivia and Peru, considering the importance which the study and development of the fishery possibilities of Lake Titicaca may have for the economic life of their frontier regions, have agreed to concert their efforts to those ends ...

Article 1. The Governments of Bolivia and Peru shall, by agreement and simultaneously, provide for the dispatch of a Scientific Commission to study the varieties of fish in Lake Titicaca and the possibility of establishing and developing there other species suited to industrial exploitation.

Article 2. If it appears from the conclusions of the Commission referred to in the foregoing article that the establishment of fish hatcheries and distribution stations is desirable, the two Governments shall agree on the steps to be taken and the apportionment of the necessary expenditures.

Article 3. After the conclusions of the Commission have been adopted by the two Governments or modified by agreement between them, the two Governments shall conclude a Convention on Fishing in Lake Titicaca which shall provide for equality of rights and economic opportunities for Bolivian and Peruvian fishermen, and for a permanent regime governing the participation of the two Governments in the establishments referred to in the foregoing article and the reimbursement of whatever expenditures are incurred.

1.  Approved by Peru by Resolucion Suprema No. 429 of 21 August 1935, and by Bolivia by an Act of 20 September 1938.

2.  Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Coleccion de tratados vigentes de la Republica de Bolivia, vol.  V, Convenciontes bilaterales, p. 486; Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tratados y acuerdos vigentes entre el Peru otros Estados, I, Instrumentos bilaterales, p. 127.