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was regarded as unjust, since the water off the coast of Portugal 

 was much deeper than off the Spanish coast, and in the follow- 

 ing year the Portuguese Government allowed Spanish fishermen 

 to fish, under certain conditions, to within three miles of the 

 coast of Alo-arbe. 1 



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While it is evident that Spain and Portugal claim jurisdic- 

 tion to the extent of six miles from the coast, it appears that 

 an exclusive fishery to that distance is not enforced against all 

 other nations. It seems that on the Mediterranean coast, the 

 three-mile, and not the six-mile, limit is applied against French 

 fishermen, 2 and the British Government, in the interests of 

 British trawlers, recently intimated that they did not recognise 

 any claims of the Spanish or Portuguese Governments to 

 exercise jurisdiction over British vessels beyond the three-mile 

 limit ; and, in point of fact, British and German trawlers now fish 

 off the Portuguese and Spanish coasts up to three miles from 

 the shore. 3 They have developed an important and extensive 

 trawl-fishery there during the last few years ; and although the 

 local fishermen strongly object to their presence within waters 

 where they are themselves prohibited to trawl, and it is stated 

 that negotiations on the matter have taken place between the 



son millas geognificas de 60 al grado de latitud. Art. 3. Cada uua de los Estados 

 tendril el derecho de reglamentar el ejercicio de la pesca en sus respectivas costas 

 maritimas hasta una distancia de seis millas de las mismas, limite dentro del cual 

 solamente sent permitido it los pescadores nacionales ejercer esta industria." 

 F. Lopez y Medina, Coleccion de Tratados Internationales, Ordenanzas y Reglamentos 

 de Pesca, pp. 44, 49 (Madrid, 1906). I am indebted to Sir Reginald MacLeod, 

 K.C.B., late Under-Secretary for Scotland, for this volume. 



1 Revista de Pesca Maritima, ix. 97 (1893) ; x. 209 (1894). Various regulations 

 have been lately made with respect to trawling beyond the six-mile limit at certain 

 parts of the Spanish coast (vide Lopez y Medina, Primer Apendice a la Coleccion 

 de Tratados, <L-c., pp. 34-45. Madrid, 1907), and also on the coast of Portugal (vide 

 Colleccdo de Leis e Disposifdes diversas com relacdo a Pesca e Service maritimo dos 

 Portos, pp. 28, 54, 276, 535. Lisboa, 1907). In no other countries, it may be 

 added, have more regulations been made restricting all kinds of trawling than in 

 Spain and Portugal. 



2 Prof. A. F. Marion, in litt. 



3 The National Sea Fisheries Protection Association : Twenty -fourth Ann. Rep. 

 of the Committee of Management, 1905, p. 7. "Spanish and Portuguese Territorial 

 Limits. Communications were made to the Foreign Office on the subject of Spanish 

 and Portuguese Territorial Limits, and, in reply, the Association was informed that 

 His Majesty's Government did not recognise any claims of the Spanish or Portu- 

 guese Governments to exercise jurisdiction over British vessels beyond the three- 

 mile limit." 



