MEXICAN FISHERY LEGISLATION 



AFPENDIX II 



RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE USE OF PURSE-SEINE NETS IN 

 TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE GULF OF CALIFCRNIA 



Signed April 22, 19^0. Published May 2, 19iiO. 



PIfiST. Until this Executive specifies, in accordance with the needs which in the opinion of 

 the National Marine Department exist for the protection of our fishery resources, those places 

 where it is proper to permit definitively the use of purse-seine nets, the lampara and ring 

 nets, based on Article 2, Section III, insert b), of the Fishing Law of December 26, 1938, 

 foreign fishing vessels are provisionally aiithorized to use the nets or seines mentioned in 

 the national waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California. 



APmroix X 



RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING CLOSED SEASONS AND OPQJ SEASONS 



FOR IHE EXPLOITATION OF SHRIMP ON 'ffiE COASTS OF SONORA, 



SINALOA, AND NAIARIT. 



Signed April 15, 1939. Published April 2U, 1939. 



(x) ORDERS 



ONUr ARTICI£. Articles 1 and 2 of the resolution of April 15, 1939, published in the 

 "Diario Oficial" of the Federation on April 24 of the same year, are modified as follows: 



Article 1. The following closed seasons are declared for the fishing of shriiq): 



a) For protected maritime waters, from the Port of Uazatlan south as far as the southern 

 boundarj'- of the State of Nayarit, an annual closed season from the 1st of February through 

 July 31st. 



b) For protected maritime waters, from the Port of Mazatlan north, and on both coasts 

 of the two Territories of LoY?er California, two closed seasons annually: one from March 1st 

 to April l5th and the other frcm June 1st to July 31st, 



c) For outside maritime waters, i.e., the shrine fishery of the high seas and points 

 far from the coast, carried out by larger vessels, in the waters of Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora 

 and both Territories of Lower California, from August 1st to September 30th each year. 



(x) As amended by order of April 18, 19/i7, published in Diario Oficial on April 25, 19^7. 



Article 3. The utilization of the stocks on hand at the beginning of the closed seasons 

 shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of Article 52 to 55 of the Regulations of 

 the Fishing Law now in effect. 



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