The regime for northern fur seals

Based on the 1911 North Pacific Sealing Convention (signed by the US, the UK on behalf of Canada, Russia, and Japan), this regime is credited with facilitating the recovery of fur seal stocks in the Bering Sea through an ingenious arrangement under which Japan and Canada agreed to cease harvesting seals in international waters in return for a share of the harvest on islands under American and Russian jurisdiction. Renegotiated in 1957, the regime went out of business following the creation of Exclusive Economic Zones under UNCLOS in the 1980s