170 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
For boats of less than fifteen tons burden (gross tonnage) the dimensions shall, if Ses be 
twenty-five centimétres in height and four centimétres in breadth. 
The same letters and numbers shall also be painted in oil colour on each side of the mainsail of the 
boat immediately above the close reef, and in such’a manner as to be plainly visible; they shall be 
painted on white sails in black, or black sails in white, and on sails of an intermediate shade in black 
or in white, as may be decided by the authority superintending the marking, in accordance with Article 
V of the present Convention. 
Steam fishing vessels shall, in addition, bear the above marks on the funnel in a plainly visible 
manner. ‘These marks should be of the same dimensions as those on the bow. 
The letter or letters and numbers on the sails shall be one-third larger in every way than those’ 
placed on the bows of the boat. 
Art. IX. Fishing boats may not have, either on their outside, on their sails, or on their funnels, 
any names, letters, or numbers other than those prescribed by Articles VI, VII, and VIII of the present 
Convention. 
Arr. X. The names, letters, and numbers placed on the boats and on their sails and funnels shall 
not be effaced, altered, made illegible, covered or concealed in any dmanner whatsoever. 
Art. XI. All the small boats, buoys, principal floats, trawls, grapnels, anchors, and generally all 
fishing implements shall be marked with the letter or letters and numbers of the boats to which they 
belong. 
These letters and numbers shall be large enough to be easily distinguished. The owners of the 
nets or other fishing implements may further distinguish them by any private marks they think proper. 
Art. XII. The master of each boat must have with him an official document, issued by the proper 
authority in his own country, for the purpose of enabling him to establish the nationality of the boat 
This document must always give the letter or letters and number of the boat, as well as her descrip- 
tion and the name or names of the owner or the name of the firm or association to which she belongs. 
Art. XIII. The nationality of a boat must not be concealed in any manner whatsoever. 
Art. XIV. No fishing boat shall anchor, between sunset and sunrise, on grounds where drift-net 
fishing is actually going on. 
This prohibition shall not, however, apply to anchorings which may take place in consequence of 
accidents or of any other compulsory circumstances. 
Art. XV. Boats arriving on the fishing grounds shall not either place themselves or shoot their 
nets in such a way as to injure each other, or as to interfere with fishermen who have already com- 
menced their operations. 
Art. XVI. Whenever, with a view of drift-net fishing, decked boats and undecked boats com- 
mence shooting their nets at the same time, the undecked boats shall shoot their nets to windward of 
the decked boats. 
The decked boats, on their part, shall shoot their nets to leeward of the undecked boats. 
Asa rule, if decked boats shoot their nets to windward of undecked boats which have begun fishing, 
or if undecked boats shoot their nets to leeward of decked boats which have begun fishing, the responsi- 
bility as regards any damages to nets which may result shall rest with the boats which last began fishing, 
unless they can prove that they were under stress of compulsory circumstances or that the damage 
was not caused by their fault. 
Arr. XVII. No net or any other fishing engine shall be set or anchored on grounds where drift-net 
fishing is actually going on. 
Arr. XVIII. No fisherman shall make fast or hold on his boat to the nets, buoys, floats, or any 
other parts of the fishing tackle of another fisherman. 
Arr. XIX. When trawl fishermen are in sight of net or of long-line fishermen, they shall take all 
necessary steps in order to avoid doing injury to the latter. Where damage is ‘caused the Tesponsi- 
bility shall be on the trawlers, unless they can prove that they were under stress of compulsory circum- 
stances, or that the loss sustained did not result from their fault. 
Arr. XX. When nets belonging to different fishermen get foul of each other, they shall not be 
cut without the consent of both parties. 
All responsibility shall cease if the impossibility of disengaging the nets by any other means is 
proved. 
Art. XXI. When a boat fishing with long lines entangles her lines in those of another boat, the 
person who hauls up the lines shall not cut them, except under stress of compulsory circumstances, in 
which case any line which may be cut shall be immediately joined together again. 
