Twelve-mile Fishery Zone, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries...89-2, on S. 2218, May 18, 19, and 20, 1966, Serial No. 89-651966 - 181 pages |
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12 miles 3-mile limit agreement Alaska American fishermen believe Bering Sea bill black cod boats breadth Bristol Bay California Canada catch Chairman CHAPMAN claim Coast Guard coastal fisheries committee Conference Congress Continental Shelf Convention on Fishing countries Day Island Department depletion DYKSTRA establish exclusive fisheries extend FELANDO fishery jurisdiction fishery resources fishery zone fishing fleets fishing industry fishing vessels fishing zone gear gillnet going Government Gulf of Alaska halibut HARVEY high seas HOLDIMAN Ilwaco innocent passage international law Japan Japanese king crab legislation living resources LOKKEN Magnuson measures MEEKER ment mesh million pounds negotiations North Pacific ocean perch offshore operations Oregon OTTER TRAWL PAUTZKE percent PHEBUS problem protection regulations Russian fishing Russian trawlers salmon Senator BARTLETT Senator PASTORE ships shore shrimp sovereignty Soviet statement territorial sea territorial waters Thank tion tons treaty tuna U.S. Senate unilateral United WARREN G Washington west coast
Popular passages
Page 87 - Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State.
Page 87 - Passage means navigation through the territorial sea for the purpose either of traversing that sea without entering internal waters, or of proceeding to internal waters, or of making for the high seas from internal waters.
Page 88 - State may, with a view to the maintenance of the productivity of the living resources of the sea, adopt unilateral measures of conservation appropriate to any stock of fish or other marine resources in any area of the high seas adjacent to its territorial sea...
Page 78 - All States have the duty to adopt, or to co-operate with other States in adopting, such measures for their respective nationals as may be necessary for the conservation of the living resources of the high seas.
Page 88 - States in adopting, such measures for their respective nationals as may be necessary for the conservation of the living resources of the high seas. Article 2 As employed in this Convention, the expression " conservation of the living resources of the high seas " means the aggregate of the measures rendering possible the optimum sustainable yield from those resources so as to secure a maximum supply of food and other marine products.
Page 91 - In view of the pressing need for conservation and protection of fishery resources, the Government of the United States regards it as proper to establish conservation zones in those areas of the high seas...
Page 108 - The sovereignty of a State extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea adjacent to its coast, described as the territorial sea.
Page 85 - In localities where the coastline is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points may be employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.
Page 33 - S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the following policy of the United States of America with respect to the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental shelf.
Page 92 - States regards it as proper to establish explicitly bounded conservation zones in which fishing activities shall be subject to the regulation and control of the United States. Where such activities have been or shall hereafter be legitimately developed and maintained jointly by nationals of the United States and nationals of other States, explicitly bounded conservation zones may be established under agreements between the United States and such other States; and all fishing activities in such zones...