INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS OF FISHERIES ON THE HIGH SEAS. 173 
APPENDIX G. 
Award of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration of 1893 with respect to Concurrent Regulations for the Pro- 
tection of the Fur Seals outside the limits of exclusive jurtsdiction. 
ARTICLE 1. The Governments of the United States and of Great Britain shall forbid their citizens 
and subjects respectively to kill, capture, or pursue at any time and in any manner whatever, the animals 
commonly called fur seals, within a zone of sixty miles around the Pribilof Islands, inclusive of the 
territorial waters. 
The miles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are geographical miles, of sixty to a degree of 
latitude. 
Art. 2. The two Governments shall forbid their citizens and subjects respectively to kill, capture, 
or pursue, in any manner whatever, during the season extending, each year, from the 1st of May to the 
31st of July, both inclusive, the fur seals on the high sea, in the part of the Pacific Ocean, inclusive of 
the Behring Sea, which is situated to the North of the 35th degree of North latitude, and eastward of the 
180th degree of longitude from Greenwich till it strikes the water boundary described in Article 1 of the 
Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and following that line up to Behring Straits. 
Art. 3. During the period of time and in the waters in which the fur-seal fishing is allowed, only 
sailing vessels shall be permitted to carry on or take part in fur-seal fishing operations. They will, 
however, be at liberty to avail themselves of the use of such canoes or undecked boats, propelled by 
paddles, oars, or sails, as are in common use as fishing boats. 
Art. 4. Each sailing vessel authorised to fish for fur seals must be provided with a special license 
issued for that purpose by its Government and shall be required tocarry a distinguishing flag to be pre- 
scribed by its Government. 
Art. 5. The masters of the vessels engaged in fur-seal fishing shall enter accurately in their official 
log book the date and place of each fur-seal fishing operation, and also the number and sex of the seals 
captured uponeach day. ‘These entries shall be communicated by each of the two Governments to the 
other at the end of each fishing season. 
Arr. 6. The use of nets, firearms, and explosives shall be forbidden in the fur-seal fishing. This 
restriction shall not apply to shotguns when such fishing takes place outside of Behring’s Sea, during 
the season when it may be lawfully carried on. 
Arr. 7.. The two Governments shall take measures to control the fitness of the men authorized to 
engage in fur-seal fishing; these men shall have been proved fit to handle with sufficient skill the 
weapons by means of which this fishing may be carried on. 
Arr. 8. The regulations contained in the preceding articles shall not apply to Indians dwelling on 
the coasts of the territory of the United States or of Great Britain, and carrying on fur-seal fishing in 
canoes or undecked boats not transported by or used in connection with other vessels and propelled 
wholly by paddles, oars, or sails and manned by not more than five persons each in the way hitherto 
practised by the Indians, provided such Indians are not in the employment of other persons and 
provided that, when so hunting in canoes or undecked boats, they shall not hunt fur seals outside of 
territorial waters under contract for the delivery of the skins to any person. 
This exemption shall not be construed to affect the municipal law of either country, nor shall it 
extend to the waters of Behring Sea or the waters of the Aleutian Passes. 
Nothing herein contained is intended to interfere with the employment of Indians as hunters or 
otherwise in connection with fur sealing vessels as heretofore. 
Art. 9. The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the protection and preser- 
vation of the fur seals, shall remain in force until they have been, in whole or in part, abolished or 
modified by common agreement between the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain. 
~The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new examination, so as to 
enable both interested Governments toconsider whether, in the light of past experience, there is occasion 
for any modification thereof. 
