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Arr. XXII. Except in case of salvage and the cases to which the two preceding Articles relate, 
no fisherman shall, under any pretext whatever, cut, hook, or lift up nets, lines, or other gear not 
belonging to him. 
When a fisherman fouls or otherwise interferes with the fishing gear of another fisherman, he shall 
take all necessary measures for reducing to a minimum the injuries which may result to the gear or to 
the boat of the other fisherman. 
Art. XXIII. The use of any instrument or engine which serves only to cut or destroy nets is 
forbidden. 
The presence of any such engine on board a boat is also forbidden. 
The High Contracting Parties engage to take the necessary measures for preventing the embarkation 
of such engines on board fishing boats. 
Art. XXIV. Fishing boats shall conform to the general rules respecting lights and sound signals, 
as well as those concerning steering and navigation, which have been, or may be, adopted in respect of 
these boats by mutual arrangement between the High Contracting Parties with the view of preventing 
collisions at sea. 
Art. XXV. All fishing boats, all their small boats, all rigging gear, or other appurtenances of 
fishing boats, all nets, buoys, floats, or other fishing implements whatsoever found or picked up at sea, 
whether marked or unmarked, shall as soon as possible be delivered to the competent authority of the 
first port to which the salving boat returns or puts in. 
Such authority shall inform the Consul or Consular Agent of the country to which the boat of the 
salvor belongs, and the nation of the owners of the articles found. They (the same authority) shall 
restore the articles to the owners thereof, or to their representatives, as soon as such articles are claimed 
and the interests of the salvors have been properly guaranteed. 
The administrative or judicial authorities, according as the laws of the respective countries may 
provide, shall fix the amount which the owner shall pay to the salvors. It is, however, agreed that. 
this provision shall not in any way prejudice such Conventions respecting this matter as are already in 
force, and that the High Contracting Parties reserve the right of regulating, by special arrangements 
between themselves, the amount of salvage at a fixed rate per net salved. 
Fishing implements of any kind found unmarked shall be treated as wreck. 
Art. XXVI. The superintendence of the fisheries shall be exercised by vessels belonging to the 
national navies of the High Contracting Parties. In the case of Denmark such vessels may be vessels 
belonging to the state, commanded by Captains who hold commissions. 
Art. XXVII. The execution of the Regulations respecting the documents establishing nationality, 
the marking and numbering of boats, etc., and of fishing implements, as well as the presence on board 
of instruments which are forbidden (Articles VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XXIII, para- 
graph 2), is placed under the exclusive superintendence of the cruisers of the nation of each fishing 
boat. Nevertheless, the Commanders of cruizers shall acquaint each other with any infractions of the 
above-mentioned Regulations committed by the fishermen of the other nation. 
Art. XXVIII. The cruizers of the High Contracting Parties shall be competent to authenticate 
all infractions of the Regulations prescribed by the present Convention other than those referred to in 
Article XXVII, and all offences relating to fishing operations, whichever may be the nation to which 
the fishermen guilty of such infraction may belong. 
Art, XXIX. When the Commanders of cruizers have reason to believe that aninfraction of the 
provisions of the present Convention has been committed, they may require the master of the boat 
inculpated to exhibit the official document establishing her nationality. The fact of such document 
having been exhibited shall then be indorsed upon it immediately. The Commanders of cruizers shall 
not pursue further their visit or search on board a fishing boat which is not of their own nationality, 
unless it should be for the purpose of obtaining proof of an offence or of a contravention of Regulations 
respecting the police of the fisheries. 
Arr. XXX. The Commanders of the cruizers of the High Contracting Parties shall exercise their 
judgment as to the gravity of facts brought to their knowledge, and of which they are empowered to 
take cognizance, and shall verify the damage, from whatever cause arising, which may be sustained by 
fishing boats of the nationalities of the High Contracting Parties. 
They shall draw up, if there is occasion for it,a formal statement of the verification af the facts, 
as elicited both from the declaration of the parties interested and from the testimony of those present 
