NORTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES DISPUTE 57 



Treaty between Great Britain and France. November 11, 1867. 



Art. I. British fishermen shall enjoy the exclusive right of fishery 

 within the distance of three miles from low water mark, along the whole 

 extent of the coasts of the British Islands. 



The distance of three miles fixed as the general limit for the exclus- 

 ive right of fishery upon the coasts of the two countries shall, with 

 respect to bays, the mouths of which do not exceed ten miles in width, be 

 measured from a straight line drawn from headland to headland. 



The miles mentioned in the present convention are geographical 

 miles where of 60 make a degree of latitude. 



(Hertslett's Treaties, Vol. XII, p. 1126, British Case App. p. 38.) 



Great Britain and North German Confederation. British notice to 

 fishermen by the Board of Trade. Board of Trade, November, 1868. 



Her Majesty's Government and the North German Confederation 

 having come to an agreement respecting the regulations to be observed by 

 British fishermen fishing off the coasts of the North German Confedera- 

 tion, the following notice is issued for the guidance and warning of 

 British fishermen : 



I. The exclusive fishery limits of the German Empire are designated 

 by the Imperial Government as follows: that tract of the sea which 

 extends to a distance of three sea miles from the extremest limits which 

 the ebb leaves dry of the German North Sea Coast of the German Islands 

 or flats lying before it, as well as those bays and incurvations of the coast 

 which are ten sea miles or less in breadth reckoned from the extremest 

 points of the land and the flats, must be considered as under the terri- 

 torial sovereignty of North Germany. 



(Hertslett's Treaties, Vol. XIV, p. 1055.) 



Great Britain and German Empire. British Board of Trade, De- 

 cember, 1874. 



(Same recital referring to an arrangement entered into between Her 

 Britannic Majesty and the German Government.) 



Then the same articles follow with the alteration of the words 

 "German Empire" for "North Germany." 



(Herstlett's, Vol. XIV, p. 1058.) 



Treaty between Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany 

 and The Netherlands for regulating the police of the North Sea Fisheries, 

 May 6, 1882. 



II. Les pecheurs nationaux jouiront du droit exclusif de peche 

 dans le rayon de 3 milles, a partir de la laissc de basse mer, le long de 

 toute r^tendue des cotes de leurs pays respectifs, ainsi que des iles et 

 des bancs qui en dependent. 



