MEKICAN FISHERY I£GISUTION • 



IV. The beds of the streams, rivers and estiiaries in all their extent, if they are 

 navigablje, being understood as such, any channel with capacity sufficient to carry the 

 regular maximum annual run-off; but in the streams or the parts thereof 3ub;)ect to over- 

 flow, until such time as levee works or channeling are carried out, the river bed shall 



be defined as the natural channel cut by the ■waters or formed by a system of barrier woricsj 



V. The federal zone consisting of a strip of 10 meters contiguous to the stream beds 

 or basins of anrnll bodies of water of national domain. Such zone shall be reduced to 5 

 meters in the beds whose width is 5 meters or lessj 



VI. The beds of lakes, lagoons or estuaries, i.e., basins with sufficient capacity 

 to carry the regular maximum annual rise; 



VII. The banks and margins of the rivers, estuaries, lakes and lagoons mentioned in 

 the previous sections; 



VIH. The ports, bays, roadsteads and inlets. 



APPENDIX xa 



BEGULATION FOR COASTAL NAVIGATION 



Signed August 7, 190.. Published September 4, 19A1. 

 As amended to January 25, 19^7. 



General 



Article 2. For the purposes of this Regulation, coastal traffic is understood to be 

 that which is effected between two national ports of the same coast. 



Fishing navigation 



Article 63. The provisions of this Regulation are applicable to national boats in the 

 fishing traffic, whenever their products are destined for the commerce of the Republic; 

 their captains, oTmers and consignees must understand, nevertheless, that they must comply 

 strictly Tdth the provisions relative to the field of fishery. 



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