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Rule 5 



No vessel shall use or have on board explosives intended for the 

 catching of fish. 



Rule 6 



In order to prevent damage, fishing vessels engaged in trawling and 

 other fishing vessels with gear in motion shall take all practicable 

 steps to avoid nets and lines or other gear which is not being towed. 



Rule 7 



(1) When nets belonging to different fishing vessels get foul of 

 each other, they shall not be severed without the consent of the parties 

 concerned unless it is impossible to disengage them by other means. 



(2) When fishing vessels fishing with lines entangle their lines, the 

 fishing vessel w^hich hauls up the lines shall not sever them unless 

 they cannot be disengaged in any other way, in which case any lines 

 which may be severed shall where possible be immediately joined 

 together again. 



(3) Except in cases of salvage and the cases to which the two 

 preceding paragraphs relate, nets, lines or other gear shall not under 

 any pretext whatever, be cut, hooked, held on to or lifted up except 

 by the fishing vessel to which they belong. 



(4) When a vessel fouls or otherwise interferes with gear not be- 

 longing to it, it shall take all necessary measures for reducing to a 

 minimum the injury which may result to such gear. The fishing vessel 

 to which the gear belongs shall, at the same time, avoid any action 

 tending to aggravate such damage. 



ANNEX VI 



RULES APPLYING TO AUTHORISED OFFICERS 



(1) An authorized officer shall carry a document of identity written 

 in English, French and the language of the authorised officer (if 

 different) in a form agreed by the Contracting Parties on the request 

 of the depositary Government. 



(2) Any orders to stop given by an authorised officer shall be 

 given by the appropriate signal in the International Code of Signals. 



(3) On boarding a vessel an authorised ojficer shall exhibit his 

 docmnent of identity. 



(4) On boarding a vessel an authorised officer may require the 

 master of the vessel to exhibit the document specified in Annex II 

 Rule 2(1) and the fact of such document having been exhibited shall 

 immediately be endorsed upon it by the authorised officer or on some 

 other official document of the vessel. 



(5) On each occasion on which an authorised officer boards a vessel, 

 he shall draw up a report in the form set out in the Appendix indicat- 

 ing the circumstances of the boarding and the information he secures. 



(6) This report shall be drawn up m the language of the authorised 

 officer and shown to the master of the vessel boarded, who shall be 



