File No. 861.0145/9.
No. 641.]
American Embassy,
St. Petersburg,
July 21, 1911.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Law establishing rules for
sea-fishing.
No. 1066. Concerning the establishment of rules for
sea-fishing industries in the Maritime Governor-Generalship.
A law approved by the Council of Empire and the Imperial Duma for
establishing rules for sea-fishing industries in the Maritime
Governor-Generalship:
- I.
- As change and supplement to the existing rules, to
establish the attached rules for sea-fishing industries in
the Maritime Governor-Generalship.
- II.
- The rules contained in Division 1 to be put into operation
six months after notification of the same to the Imperial
Japanese Government, in accordance with Article IX of the
Fishing Convention between Russia and Japan, imperially
ratified July 13, 1907.
The President of the Council of Empire,
M. Akimoff.
So be it.1
Peterhoff
,
May 29, 1911.2
Countersigned: Imperial Secretary,
Makaroff.
Rules for sea-fishing industries in the Maritime
Governor-Generalship.
[Extract of the portions of the text relating to extent
of territorial waters.]
Division 1.—General
Regulations.
1. Where the extent of the seashore radius is not defined by special
international enactments or treaties, the present rules cover the
coastal sea to a distance of three geographical miles (=12.02 marine
miles=20.87 versts), counting from the line of the lowest ebb-tide,
or from the extremity of the coastal standing ice.
The present rules do not cover the Amur estuary from a line
connecting Cape Lazareff on the mainland to Cape Pogobi on the
island of Saghalin, to a line connecting Cape Perovskiy on the
mainland with the northern tributaries to the Baikal Gulf on the
island of Saghalin.
2. The carrying on of sea-fishing industries is permitted (that is,
the catching of fish and their preparation) on sites defined for
this purpose, which constitute special governmental quit-rent
locations, and also from trading-vessels.
The trading sites, consisting of a defined area, shall be leased
either: (1) for the catching and preparation of fish, with the right
of fishing in the waters adjacent to the shore over a surface of the
width of one marine mile; or (2) only for the preparation of fish,
without the right of fishing.
Outside the limits of one marine mile from the shore the fishing
shall be carried on from vessels with an arrangement of special
permits.
The Chief Manager of Land Works and Agriculture, in agreement with
the Maritime Governor-General, has the right to declare, for a
definite time, separate rayons of the coastal waters as closed
altogether to fishing, or to separate phases of fishing (catching
fish or their preparation), and also to establish periods when
fishing is not allowed.