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formity with the requirements of this Act and of any such conven- 

 tion, and the regulations; and 



(6) define the boats or classes of boats to which the regulations or 

 any of them are to apply, and provide for the exemption of any boats 

 or classes of boats from the provisions of this section, and from the 

 regulations or any of them ; and 



(c) apply to the entry of fishing boats in the fishing boat registry, 

 and all mattery incidental thereto, such (if any) of the enactments 

 contained in this or any other Act relating to the registry of British 

 ships, and with such modifications and alterations as may be found 

 desirable; and 



(d) impose fines not exceeding twenty pounds for the breach of 

 any such regulations which cannot be punished by the application of 

 any of those enactments. 



No. 41. WOO, May: British Notification of the Danish Law of 

 April 7, 1900) respecting Illegal Trawling in Territorial Waters. 



SEA FISHERIES TERRITORIAL WATERS OF DENMARK. 



Notice is hereby given to British fishermen that a new Law has 

 come into force in Denmark by which the penalty for illegal trawling 

 in the territorial waters of that country has been increased. 



Translation of the Law is printed overleaf. 



It should be borne in mind that as regards the Danish Coast border- 

 ing on the North Sea. south of Hanstholm Lighthouse, Arts. II and 

 III of the North Sea Fisheries Convention, 1882, to which Denmark 

 is a party, apply. 



These Articles are as follows : 



ART. II. The fishermen of each country shall enjoy the exclusive right of 

 fishery within the distance of three miles from low-wnter mark along the whole 

 extent of the coasts of their respective countries, as well as of the dependent 

 islands and banks. 



As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight 

 line drawn across the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point 

 where the width does not exceed ten miles. 



The present Article shall not in any way prejudice the freedom of navigation 

 and anchorage in territorial waters accorded to fishing boats, provided they 

 conform to the special police regulations enacted by the Powers to whom the 

 shore belongs. 



ART. III. The miles mentioned in the preceding Article are geographical miles, 

 whereof 60 make a degree of latitude. 



T. H. W. PELHAM, 



Assistant Secretary. 

 FISHERIES AND HARBOUR DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE. 



May 1900. 



