At the New York conference the Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement, which implemented the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the conservation and management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks was signed in December 1995. Tobin framed it as a result of the Canadian stand off with Europe, which found domestic support. The conference in fact repeatedly rejected proposals that would have conflicted with the Law of the Sea convention, such as provisions that would have given coastal states fishery jurisdiction beyond 200 miles.