134 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
damaged, the owner thereof has the right to indemnity from the person caus- 
ing the damage. This protection applies to salmon gear set around Bornholm 
and Kristians6 islands only from October 1 to April 1, inclusive. 
Offenses against the convention are to be reported and tried in the country 
to which vessel of the guilty party belongs, and the punishment consists of 
fines ranging from 10 to 200 crowns. 
A protocol to this convention set forth that the respective Governments 
would take the necessary measures for executing the provisions of the con- 
vention and especially those relating to police supervision; and furthermore 
that differences of opinion regarding the interpretation or application of the 
convention which could not be adjusted by diplomatic negotiations should be 
submitted to arbitration. The convention and protocol were ratified at Copen- 
hagen on July 21 and at Marstrand on August 4, 1899, and the ratifications 
were exchanged at Stockholm on November 10, 1899. 
On October 5, 1907, this convention was supplemented by a declaration, 
taking effect November 1, 1907, which specified that in The Sound fishing shall 
be permitted to the subjects of each country everywhere without restriction 
other than that along the shores of each side of the sound within a depth of 
7 meters subjects of the other country shall not fish with nets for any other 
species than herring. And in the Baltic Sea along the coast of Bornholm and 
Kristians6 islands and on the Swedish coast from Falsterbo to Cimbrishamn 
the herring fishery with draft nets shall be common to the subjects of each 
country from May 1 to August 31. 
The declaration also added this important provision: Plaice less than 
251% centimeters in length (21 centimeters from the point of the nose to the 
root of the tail) shall not be permitted on board any fishing vessel in the 
Cattegat, its bays or inlets, nor shall any such plaice be landed, sold, or shipped 
from one locality to another on the coasts of the Cattegat, but shall be returned . 
to the water as quickly and as uninjured as possible. The same provisions apply 
to The Sound, excepting that in certain towns plaice 21 centimeters long (17 
centimeters from the point of the nose to the root of the tail) may be used for 
consumption in the communes lying next to the coast. 
GREENLAND SEAL FISHERY REGULATIONS OF 1875--1877. 
Although they are not strictly international in the sense of binding the 
interested states in their relations with each other, yet it seems that reference 
should be made to the concurrent regulations enacted in 1875-1877 by Great 
Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden for protecting hair 
seals in the seas adjacent to the eastern coast of Greenland, and especially 
about the island of Jan Mayen. 
Very rapid is the growth of the young seals born each March on the ice 
floes drifting down from the polar sea. The skin, with the attached fat, weighs 
only about 8 pounds at birth; but nourished by their mothers’ milk on the icy 
