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CHAPTER V. 



THE INADEQUACY OP THE THREE-MILE LIMIT FOR 

 FISHERY REGULATIONS. 



Three miles insufficient for the regulation of the fisheries Seal 

 fisheries Behring Sea arbitration Oyster, pearl - oyster, ' and 

 coral fisheries Regulations for " floating " fish Relation of 

 trawl -fishing to three-mile limit Recent great extension of 

 trawling The effect on the fishing-grounds Official inquiries 

 English trawlers desire an increased limit in North Sea 

 International conference at London, 1890 Inquiry by select 

 committee of House of Commons They recommend international 

 extension of present limit for fishery purposes Immature Fish Bill 

 Its object Parliamentary inquiry, 1900 They urge international 

 arrangement for North Sea Bill again introduced Inquiry by 

 committee of House of Lords, 1904 They recommend inter- 

 national agreement for North Sea The impoverishment of the 

 fishing-grounds in the North Sea Trawlers flock to foreign coasts 

 Feeling among foreign fishermen Legislation in various 

 countries regulating trawling beyond the three - mile limit 

 Norway, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria Ireland Not restricted 

 to bays Scotland Fishery Acts Firth of Clyde Moray Firth 

 Act of 1895 empowering a thirteen - mile limit Intrusion of 

 foreign and pseudo-Norwegian trawlers into Moray Firth Prose- 

 cutions and convictions Case of Peters versus Olsen Case of 

 Mortensen versus Peters Decision of the Scottish High Court of 

 Justiciary Opinions of the judges Intervention of Norwegian 

 Government Release of offenders Foreign Office decline to open 

 negotiations with foreign Powers Debates in Parliament Lord 

 Fitzmaurice on territorial limit and bays Opinions of Lord 

 Halsbury, Lord Herschell, Lord Salisbury, Lord Chancellor 

 Loreburn Declarations of Sir Edward Grey, Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs Views of British Government Previous action of Great 

 Britain in connection with extra - territorial fisheries Recent 

 proceedings with foreign Powers regarding the three-mile limit 

 The international fishery investigations Need of an international 

 arrangement . . . . . . . . 693 



