MODERN PRACTICE 655 



to English and German fishermen, it is claimed on her be- 

 half by an eminent Danish authority that it is within her 

 right still to maintain the old geographical league as the 

 boundary of her territorial sea, 1 and this has indeed been 

 recently done in a fishery convention with Sweden, which 

 claims the same limit with regard to the fisheries in the 

 Cattegat, the Sound, the Baltic along the Swedish coast from 

 Falsterbo to Simbrishamn, and around the islands Bornholrn 

 and Kristianso. 2 



It is to be noted that the terms used in this treaty in 

 defining the limit differ from those in the ordinance of 1812. 

 The ordinance speaks of islands and islets which are not 

 submerged or overflowed by the sea, while the treaty men- 

 tions the outermost islets or rocks which are not constantly 

 submerged or overflowed by the sea, a distinction which 

 might make a very considerable difference in the extent of 

 the waters reserved. 



We thus see that Denmark enforces two limits in connection 

 with fishery one of four miles, measured according to the 

 Scandinavian method, in the Baltic, &c., as against Sweden 

 (and doubtless also against Norway) ; and the ordinary one of 

 three miles in the Baltic, &c., as against Great Britain and 

 Germany at least, and also in the North Sea and at the Faroes 

 and Iceland. The various limits are shown in the accompany- 

 ing figure, which is a reproduction of the official chart. It also 



1 Natzen, Den Danske Statsforfatningsret, i. 36. 1888. 



2 Fiskerikonventionen mellem Danmark og Sverig, I4de July 1899. Fiskeri- 

 Beretning for Finansaaret, 1898-1899, Copenhagen, 1900. "Art. I. I de til 

 Kongerigerne Danrnark og Sverig graensende Farvande skal, med de i Art. II. 

 naevnte Undtagelser, det Omraade, hvor Fiskeriet udelukkende er forbeholdt hvert 



Lands egne Undersaatter, udg^re en Straekning af en geografisk Mil ( Bredde- 



grad) fra Kysten eller yderste der udfor liggende Holme og -Skser, som ikke til 

 Stadighed overskylles af Vandet," &c. The definition in the Swedish is '' en 



geografisk mil ( breddgrad) fran kusten eller ytterst diirutanfor liggande holmar 



och skar, som icke stiindigt af vattnet ofverskoljas." (Srensk Fiskeri Tidslcrijt, 16e 

 Arg., Haft 6, p. 189.) Article II. makes the fishery in the Sound, including Kioge 

 Bay, common to the subjects of each state, except that on either side, within a 

 depth of seven metres (four fathoms), subjects of the other country shall be allowed 

 to fish for herrings only, with nets ; and mutual liberty of herring-fishing with 

 drift-nets is conceded in like fashion at certain other specified places. Certain 

 amendments were made to this agreement in 1907, the chief one being the pro- 

 hibition of trawling in the Sound. Piskeri- Beretning for Finansaaret, 1906-1907, 

 p. 45. Svensk Ftirfattningssamling, No. 79, Ar., 1907. 



