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saving their lives or their ships, after having 

 taken all necessary precautions to avoid such 

 break or injury. 



Article 28 



Every State shall take the necessary legis- 

 lative measures to provide that, if persons 

 subject to its jurisdiction who are the owners 

 of a cable or pipeline beneath the high seas, 

 in laying or repairing that cable or pipeline, 

 cause a break in or injury to another cable 

 or pipeline, they shall bear the cost of the 

 repairs. 



Article 29 



Every State shall take the necessary legis- 

 lative measures to ensure that the owners of 



ships who can prove that they have sacrificed 

 an anchor, a net or any other fishing gear, 

 in order to avoid injuring a submarine cable 

 or pipeline, shall be indemnified by the 

 owner of the cable or pipeline, provided that 

 the owner of the ship has taken all reason- 

 able precautionary measures beforehand. 



Article 30 



The provisions of this Convention shall 

 not affect conventions or other international 

 agreements already in force, as between 

 States parties to them. 



[Articles 31 to 37 inclusive are procedural 

 in nature and have been omitted.] 



D. CONVENTION ON FISHING AND CONSERVATION OF THE 

 LIVING RESOURCES OF X:. - HIGH SEAS* 



The States Parties to this Convention, 



Considering that the development of mod- 

 ern techniques for the exploitation of the 

 living resources of the sea, increasing man's 

 ability to meet the need of the world's ex- 

 panding population for food, has exposed 

 some of these resources to the danger of 

 being over-exploited, 



Considering also that the nature of the 

 problems involved in the conservation of the 

 living resources of the high seas is such that 

 there is a clear necessity that they be solved, 

 whenever possible, on the basis of interna- 

 tional co-operation through the concerted 

 action of all the States concerned, 



Have agreed as follows: 



Article i 



I. All States have the right for their na- 

 tionals to engage in fishing on the high seas, 

 subject {a) to their treaty obligations, {b) 



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to the interests and rights of coastal States 

 as provided for in this Convention, and {c) 

 to the provisions contained in the following 

 articles concerning conservation of the liv- 

 ing resources of the higli seas. 



2. All States have the duty to adopt, or 

 to co-operate with other States in adopting, 

 such measures for their respective nationals 

 as may be necessary for the conservation of 

 the living resources of the high seas. 



Article 2 



As employed in this Convention, the ex- 

 pression "conservation of the living re- 

 sources of the high seas" means the aggre- 

 gate of the measures rendering possible the 

 optimum sustainable yield from those re- 

 sources so as to secure a maximum supply 

 of food and other marine products. Con- 

 servation programmes should be formulated 

 with a view to securing in the first place a 

 supply of lx)od for human fon»uinpiion. 



