MEXICAN FISHERY LEGISUTION 



APPENDIX I 



Signed August 31, 1932. Published September 3, 1932, 



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Chapter I 



Fishing in General 



Article 1. Acts of fishing and therefore subject to this law shall be those which, 

 effected in national waters and having as their object the obtaining of specimens or 

 biological elements peculiar to the water, remove them definitely from their natural 

 habitat, whatever may be the objects pursued and the methods employed in effecting them. 



Article 2, As regards the object pursued in the fishing, this may be for domestic 

 consumption, for exploitation and for sport. 



Article 3. Fishing for domestic consumption is that which is effected for the purpose 

 of securing food for those engaged therein, the catch to be for the direct consumption of 

 the latter or of their families. 



Article 4. Fishing is for exploitation when it has as its object the obtaining of 

 economic benefits from the transfer of the specimens caught in any state or condition. It 

 is commercial when those specimens are the object of mercantile transactions in their 

 natural state, without previously being subjected to processes other than those for their 

 preservation. It is industrial when the specimens caught undergo, before their sale, a 

 process of partisuL or total transformation. 



Article 5, Fishing for sport is that which is effected for no other purpose than the 

 pleasure of fishing, for diversion, or for the exercise liiich it involves. 



Article 6. Since fishing affects a natural resource which forms part of the public 

 wealth, its practice and the exploitation of the resource in question are regulated by the 

 State to the end of insuring their rational utilization, the preservation of the species 

 and a greater economic benefit therefrom. 



Article 7. In accordance with the provisions of the preceding article, the Federal 

 Government, through the lainistry of Agriculture and Development, may at any time restrict, 

 limit and regulate (the practice of) fishing, as regards the intensity of the activities 

 devoted to it, the number of persons engaged in it, the times when it may be effected and 

 the species which may be caught. 



Article 8, To perform any act of fishing, with the exception of that for domestic 

 consumption, a permit granted under the terms of this law and its regulations must be 

 previously obtained. 



Article 9. Fishermen directly engaged in fishing may organize themselves into groups 

 for the purpose of improving their social and economic conditions, such groups, regardless 

 of the form whidi they adopt, to enjoy the protection of the State under the related dis- 

 positions . 



Article 10. The fixing of duties, tariff schedules, rates and other fiscal charges, 

 as well as the formulation of rules for their collection, shall be under the direction of 

 the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which however shall in every case take into 

 consideration the technical opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture and Developuent in the 

 matter, without encroaching, through the enjoyment of that privilege, upon the powers of 

 the latter Ministry under the law. 



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