INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS OF FISHERIES ON THE HIGH SEAS. I2I 
may be sold only by persons licensed by the respective Governments.? The 
enforcement of these regulations is referred to the same officials who are charged 
with the police of the fisheries in the North Sea, with the proviso that the regula- 
tions do not in any way affect French fishermen or concern French cruisers. 
ANGLO-DENMARK CONVENTION OF 1901. 
The success of the North Sea convention of 1882 resulted in similar action 
by Great Britain and Denmark for regulating the police of the fisheries prose- 
cuted by their subjects outside territorial waters about Iceland and the Faroe 
Islands. A convention between these two powers was signed at London on 
June 24, 1901, and ratifications were exchanged on May 28 in the year following. 
This convention and the regulations established thereunder applied to about 
230,000 square miles (geographical) of water area outside the territorial juris- 
diction of Denmark about Iceland and the Faroe Islands, constituting the 
largest definite area in which an attempt has been made to police the fisheries 
by international convention.” 
In detail the provisions of this convention were almost literally the same 
as those of the North Sea convention concluded at The Hague in 1882. Each 
article followed the older convention almost word for word, except in article 4, 
defining the geographical limits to which they applied, and in article 8, which 
contained the additional provision that steam fishing vessels should be ap- 
‘propriately marked on the funnel. Since the convention of 1882 there had been 
a very large increase in the number of steamers employed in the trawl fisheries, 
and most of the English vessels fishing about Iceland were of this type, hence 
the importance of this item. As in all other international fishery conventions, 
the courts of the flag state of the infringing vessel were made exclusively com- 
petent to deal with infractions of the regulations, but cruisers of either of the 
signatory powers were authorized to search and arrest. An additional article 
stipulated that any other Government, whose subjects fish in the seas sur- 
rounding Iceland and the Faroe Islands, may adhere to this convention; but 
no nation has yet availed itself of this privilege.° 
The geographical limits for the application of this convention were fixed 
as follows: ‘‘On the south by a line commencing from where the meridian of 
North Unst light-house (Shetland Islands) meets the parallel of sixty-first 
degree of north latitude to a point where the ninth meridian of west longi- 
tude meets the parallel of 60° north latitude, and from thence westward 
a¥ora more extended discussion of these regulations, see Guillaume in Revue de Droit International 
et de Législation Comparée, t. xxvi (1894), p. 488. 
: b The dominion of the North Sea convention of 1882 approximated 150,000 square miles. The con- 
current municipal laws of 1875-1877 regulating the Jan Mayen seal fishery (see p. 135) applied to about 
285,000 square miles. 
¢ The articles of this convention are given in full in Appendix F (page 169 of this paper). 
