MBCICM raSHEBY LEGISLATION 



APPENDIX XXI 



iXDR THE FISHING 



RESOLUTION ON REGULATIONS FOR THE FISHING 

 OF VARIOUS SPECIES OF ABALONB, 

 IN IKATERS OF THE WEST COAST OF LOVffiR CALIFORNIA. 



Signed March 10, 19A7. Published March U, 1947. 



ORDER: 



I. The capture of the different species of abalone produced in the waters of the 

 western shore of Lower California is reserved to the coastal fishennen of the west coast 

 and the offshore islands, organized into cooperatives in accordance with the law. 



II. Ihe exploitation of the different species of abalone produced in the above- 

 mentioned waters, will be permitted, with the limitations and restrictions necessary to 

 the conditions of production of this group of molluscs, only to the fishermen's cooper- 

 atives which in previous years have engaged in this fishery. If tiie potentiality of the 

 abalone beds allows, their exploitation may also be permitted to other cooperatives, xinder 

 the terms fixed in each case by the Ministry of Marine, in accordance with the varying 

 conditions and circumstances which must be taken into consideration upon request for permits 

 by cooperatives wishing to engage in this type of fishery for the first time. 



III. Ihe permits granted to vcirious fishing cooperatives for the capture of the differ- 

 ent species of abalone in waters of the west coast of Lower Ccilifomia and its islands, will 

 be subject, with reference to the destination and use of the products obtained, to the 

 following restrictions: 



1. That the products be offered first to supplying the processing plants irtiich padc and 

 can abalone in the form of preserved food, authorized for such use by the Ministry of Marine 

 and located in the following places in the western zone of Lower California: El Sauzal, 

 Ensenada, Isla de Cedros, Bahia de Tortugas or Puerto de San Bartolome, Isla Margarita and 

 Cabo San Lucas. 



2, That the products be offered also, in the percentage of production annually fixed 

 by the Ministry of Marine, to certain semi-processing, the fishery production cooperatives 

 themselves filleting them fresh, to be sold only and exclusively for the purpose of supplying 

 food to the inhabitants of the Republic. 



IV. The Directorate General of Fisheries, with the technical personnel which has been 

 placed at its disposal, will pix)ceed immediately with such scientific studies and investigations 

 as may be feasible, for the purpose of determining as Soon as possible, the most in^wrtant 

 places ■«*iich produce the different species of abalone; the potentiality of production and the 

 capacity of exploitation in each place; correct delimitation of zones and their respective 

 sections, in order to specify in each zone, which sections may be exploited and to what point 

 of intensity the exploitation may be carried out; which sections should be exploited alternate 

 years and which should be closed temporarily or indefinitely, cind lastly, those niiiich should be 

 kept only as places reserved for the protection and natural propagating of these molluscs for 

 the purpose of repopulating beds already depleted. 



V. Until we know the results of the studies and investigations vAiich are referred to in 

 the previous paragraph or article, the capture of the different species of abalone shall not 

 be carried on indiscriminately everywhere by the fishing cooperatives with permits for this 

 type of exploitation, but rather, these cooperatives, in accordance with their legal residences 

 as stated in their charters, shall limit the radius of their fishing activities Tdth respect to 

 the capture of abalone, to the beds existing within the zone corresponding to their legal 

 residence; for which purpose the west coast of Lower California, including the exploitable beds 

 on the shores of the mainland and those of the adjacent islands, are hereby divided into three 

 zones with the following limits from north to south: 



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