INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS OF FISHERIES ON THE HIGH. SEAS, 133 
CONVENTION OF 1899 BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DENMARK. 
In the narrow waters connecting the Baltic and the North Sea much con- 
fusion developed near the close of the last century between the fishermen of 
Sweden and Denmark, particularly as to the limits of territorial jurisdiction 
from which they were respectively excluded. This resulted in a convention, 
signed on July 14, 1899, which set forth the limits of territorial jurisdiction and 
extended to the subjects of each nation certain privileges withia the territorial 
waters of the other; it also required that boats, fishing gear, etc., should be 
suitably marked and that avoidable injury thereto should be assessed against 
the person responsible. 
This convention * was not so broad in its scope as the North Sea convention 
of 1882 or the Anglo-Denmark convention of 1901. For its purposes the waters 
between Sweden and Denmark were defined to be: (1) The Cattegat, limited 
by a line on the north extending from Skagen to Vinga light-house and thence 
to Hesingen Island, and on the south by lines extending from Hasenore to 
Gniben and from Kullen to Gilberghaven; (2) The Sound or Orasund, extending 
from the Kattegat on the north to a line drawn from Falsterbo to Stevns on the 
south, and (3) the navigable waters of the Baltic along the coast from Falsterbo 
to Simbrishamn and also around the Danish islands Bornholm and Kristians6. 
The area reserved to the subjects of each country extends seaward to the 
distance of 4 geographical miles (one-fifteenth of a degree of latitude) from the 
coast—that is, the outermost islands and the reefs not constantly covered by 
water. But in the Cattegat Swedish subjects are authorized to fish within a 
distance of 3 geographical miles of the shores of the Danish island Anhalt, and 
Danish subjects are authorized to fish at the same distance outside a straight 
line drawn from Hallands Waderé light-house to Tylo light-house on the 
Swedish coast. 
The convention made two other exceptions to the 4-mile rule, viz: (1) In 
The Sound the subjects of each country are authorized to fish everywhere 
without discrimination, with this limitation, that along the shores of each side 
within a depth of 7 meters the subjects of the other country are not permitted 
to catch any other fish than herring; and (2) in the Baltic along the shores of 
Bornholm and Kristiansé islands and on the Swedish coast from Falsterbo to 
Cimbrishamn fishing for herring with nets is permitted to the subjects of each 
country from May 1 to August 31. 
The convention defined the manner in which the vessels and the various 
forms of fishing gear shall be marked. In accordance with its provisions, 
whenever a subject of either country occupies a fishing station with his gear 
duly marked he may not be ousted therefrom. If fishing gear is set or hauled 
over marked gear, or if a net is so hauled that duly marked gear is needlessly 
@The original text and a translation of this convention are given in Appendix H (page 174 of this paper). 
