23G PKOTECTION AND PRESERVATION. 



itaiiau logisia-at the closG of wliicli tli8 previous restrictive 



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regulations will be again enforced.^ 

 Norwegian logis- ^x^^j^jg principle IS also recoOTiized in the leo-is- 



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lation of Norvva}' in the statute of 1880 for the 

 protection of whales, during an annual close 

 season, in Varanger Fiord, an arm of the open 

 sea about thirty-two marine miles in width, lying 

 off the northeast coast of Norway.^ 

 Panama icgisia- TJ^^ Government of Panama, in the Eeiniblic 



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of Colombia, has recently enacted a law prohibit- 

 ing the use of diving machines for the collection 

 of pearls within an area of the sea over sixty 

 marine miles in length, and extending outward 

 about thirty marine miles from the coast.^ 

 Mexican logisia- The Mcxicau pearl fisheries lyiug off the coast 

 of Lower California have been made the subject 

 .of sj^ecial exclusive grants to private individuals. 

 Along part of the coast the pearl beds have been 

 divided for this purpose into two belts, of which 

 the inner belt extends seaward a distance of five 

 kilometers (about three miles), and the outer l)elt 

 is bounded by lines drawn parallel to the coast 

 at distances of five and ten kilometers. It is ob- 



1 statutes of Italy, and maps, Vol . I, pp. 470, 472. " Relazionc del 

 Profcssoro Giovanni Canestiini al Ministro di Agricoltnra, Indns- 

 tiia e Commcrcio Snlle ricerclie fatte uel Mare di Sciacca intorno 

 ai Bauchi Corallini." "Annali dell' ludustria e del Cummereio, 

 1882." 



-Statutes of Norway, Vol. I, p. 482. 



^Statutes of Panama, and map, Vol. I, p. 484. 



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