158 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
Art. LXXXVI. Whenever, in any of the cases of exception specified in the preceding Article, the 
fishing boats of either nation shall have occasion to sail or anchor within the limits defined by the 
Convention of the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, the masters of such 
boats shall immediately hoist a blue flag, two feet high and three feet long, and shall keep this flag 
flying at the masthead so long as they shall remain within the said limits; consequently this flag shall 
not be hauled down until the boats are actually outside of those limits. 
These boats, when within the aforesaid limits, are not only prohibited from fishing themselves, but 
are also forbidden to send their small boats to fish, even outside of the limits in question. They must 
all (with the exception of herring boats, which may be waiting, as they have the privilege of doing, for 
a favourable opportunity to proceed to their lawful fishery) return outside the said limits so soon as the 
causes shall have ceased which obliged them to come in under the cases of exception specified. 
It is further agreed, conformably to the tenor of the present Regulations, that the fishing boats of 
the one country shall not use the ports of the other country for the greater convenience of their 
fishery operations, either in proceeding from thence to their lawful fishery in the seas common to both, 
or in returning thereunto after fishing; it being understood, however, that this stipulation does not 
in any manner impair the right of putting into port in the cases of exception specified in Article LXXXV. 
Arr. LXXXVII. It is forbidden to herring drift-net fishing boats to shoot their nets earlier in 
the day than half an hour before sunset, except in places where it is customary to carry on this drift-net 
fishing by daylight. 
Art. LXXXVIII. Herring fishermen, being within the fishery limits of either country, shall 
comply with the laws and regulations of the said country respecting the prohibition of fishing on the 
Sabbath day. 
Art. LXXXIX. The Commanders of the cruisers of each of the two countries, and all officers or 
other agents whatsoever appointed to superintend the fisheries, shall exercise their judgment as to 
the causes of any transgressions committed by the fishing boats of the other country, and when they 
shall be satisfied of the fact of the transgression, they shall detain or cause to be detained the boats 
having thus transgressed the preceding Regulations (from Article LX XVI), and shall take them or 
cause them to be taken into port, where, upon clear proof of the transgression being brought by the 
detaining party before the competent tribunal or magistrates, the said boats so transgressing may be 
condemned to be kept for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding ten pounds 
sterling (two hundred and fifty francs). 
In testimony whereof the respective Commissioners have signed the present Regulations, and have 
thereto affixed their seals. 
Done in London the twenty-fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and forty-three. 
APPENDIX B. 
Convention between Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French relative to fisheries in the seas between 
Great Britain and France. 
ArTICLE I. British fishermen shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery within the distance of 
three miles from low-water mark, along the whole extent of the coasts of the British islands; and 
French fishermen shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery within the distance of three miles from 
low-water mark along the whole extent of the coast of France, the only exception to this rule being 
that part of the coast of France which lies between Cape Carteret and Point Meinga. 
The distance of three miles fixed as the general limit for the exclusive right of fishery upon the 
coasts of the two countries shall, with respect to bays, the mouths of, which do not exceed ten miles 
in width, be measured from a straight line drawn from headland to headland: 
The miles mentioned in the present Convention are geographical miles, whereof sixty make a 
degree of latitude. 
Art. II. It is agreed that the lines drawn between the points designated by the letters A, B, C, 
D, E, F, G, H, I, K, on the chart annexed to the present Convention, and signed by the respective 
Plenipotentiaries, shall be acknowledged by the high contracting parties as defining from Point Meinga 
