MEiQCAN FISHERY LEGISUTION 



end they shall alternate tteir exploitations in the manner determined in their authorizations. 



Article 100, Holders of concessions or permits for the exploitation of seaweed shall be 

 obliged to prepare oceanographic charts of the regions that they exploit. 



Article 101. The capture of totoaba and the extraction of sponges shall be considered 

 as special fishing, the species in question to be subject to regulation by the Ministry of 

 Agriculture and Development by meams of the corresponding orders, 



- TITLE V 



Regarding inspection and vigilance 

 in fishery matters 



Article 102. The inspection and patrol of fishing activities shall be perfoniied by 

 the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, through the Agencies established in subsequent 

 orders. 



Article 103. In the orders referred to in the preceding article, the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture and Development shall determine the territorial jurisdiction of the Fishing Offices 

 in question. 



TITLE VI 



Regarding procedures and penalties 

 in fishery matters 



CHAPTER I 



Procedures 



Article 104. Fishing authorizations to be obtained directly frcm the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture and Development shall be requested in Tiriting of that Ministry. If after a petition 

 has been made, a month passes without further steps being taken in the matter through negli- 

 gence on the part of the petitioner, the latter will be considered as having desisted from 

 his negotiations. 



Article 105. Local fishing pennits and other authorizations issued by the Pishing Offices 

 may be solicited verbally and the mere fact that such an authorization has been issued aind 

 detached from the respective stub-book implies that the person to whom it was issued requested 

 it and accepts all the obligations stipulated therein. 



Article 106. When a reserved fishing zone is requested by a private individual or ju- 

 ridical entity, the Ministry of Agricultvire and Development shall so notify the local fisher- 

 men through the Fishing Office in that district, so that within a period of thirty days from 

 the date of such notification by the Fishing Office, they may exercise the right of preference 

 granted by Article L, of this Regulation. 



Article 107, In cases of violation of the dispositions of the Fishing Law, this Regulation 

 and other laws in the matter, the procedure covered in the following articles shall be followed. 



Article 108, Once the violation has been discovered a detailed record shall be di'awn up 

 of the acts constituting it, the name of the violator and of the ooncessionnaire or the nolder 

 of the permit under whom they were operating; the legeil dispositions considered violated and 

 all the circumstances tending to prove the act of violation. If the violation is discovered 

 by a private party he shall notify the nearest fishing authority, who shall draw up the record 

 to which this article refers. 



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