MEXICAN FISHERY LEGISUTION 



INTRODUCTION 



In recent mcaiths considerable interest has been manifested by the American fishery 

 industry in obtaining information relative to ilexican fishery legislation. The latest 

 coaipilation of Uexican fishery laws was published in Spanish in 1939 by the Mexican 

 Government and it did not contain all of the laws then in effect. 



As the author was unable to find any source containing a complete codification of 

 Mexican fishery legislation, he resorted to reviewing the Daily Uexican Government Journal, 

 " Diario Oficial " . wherein all legislation is published. The " Diario Oficial " has been 

 searched for the present work from January, 1925 through April 1947. This report contains, 

 in addition to v^hat is believed to be a complete set of laws pertaining to marine fisheries, 

 pertinent portions of the laws on the subjects of communications, territorial waters, import 

 and export duties and cooperatives. 



There are two sections to this report. The first section contains a brief discussion 

 of Mexican legislation ccaisidered to be of interest to the American fishery industry. The 

 second section consists of 73 appendices ■vriierein the various Uexican laws are given in 

 tramslation. 



Some of the translations are from records of the United States Government. The others 

 were made jointly by Miss Janet Part, Clerk of the United States Fishery Mission to Mexico, 

 and the author. All translations are unofficial. 



The appendices, unless otherwise mentioned on the first page of each, aure currently 

 up to date as of April 30, 1947. It should be noted that since the dates of enactment of 

 many of these laws, the control of the fisheries has been transferred on several occasions 

 to different branches of the Mexican Government. At present, control lies with Directorate 

 General of Fisheries and Allied Industries of the Ministry of Marine (Secretaria de Marina, 

 Direccion General de Pesca e Industrias Conexas). Therefore, wherever mention is made of 

 the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, the Department of Marine or the Department of 

 Forestry, Hunting cind Fishing, the authority original granted these various agencies now is 

 vested in the organizations mentioned in the preceding sentence. 



