FISHERIES. 231 



in the Appendix, giving a brief review of the Game laws, 

 game and fishery laws of Great Britain and 

 Canada.^ 



Game and fishery laws are usually limited in Extraterritorial 



jurisdiction. 



their effects to the land and territorial waters of 

 the country which enacts them. But instances 

 are many wherein nations have not hesitated to 

 extend the effects of their laws to the waters 

 contiguous to their shores, beyond the ordinary 

 three-mile limit. Citations have alreadv been 

 made of the laws for the protection of seals of 

 quite a number of nations, which, so far as their 

 own subjects are concerned, apply to large areas 

 of the high seas, and it has been shown that 

 Great Britain and Russia extend their exclusive 

 jurisdiction for the protection of seals, frequent- 

 ing waters contiguous to their shores, far beyond 

 the marine league. But further instances may 

 be cited where nations have exercised extrater- 

 ritorial jurisdiction on the ocean for the protec- 

 tion of other species of marine life besides the 

 seal. In fact, it may be laid down as a principle, 

 established by international usage, that any 

 nation which has a peculiar interest in the con- 

 tinued existence of any valuable marine product, 

 located in the high seas adjacent to its coasts or 



'Game and Fishery Laws of Great Britain and Canada, Vol. I, 

 p. 450. 



