RUSSIAN FISHERIES.
TWELVE-MILE XJMTT- ABANDONED. (Received 12.50' p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, December 15. Owing- to the protests of the Powers, Russia has dropped the claim for the twelve-mile limit in the White Sea. The Government has decided to aid the fisheries in other ways. Russia recently issued a decree, forbidding trawling within twelve miles' of the shores of the White Sea, This huge inlet teems with marketable fish, and every year thousands of tons are taken by British and other trawlers. Steps were promptly taken by the British Government to have the limit reduced to the ordinary league, and in this matter Xorway. Sweden and Germany assisted, with the result that the oppressive restriction has nowbeen withdrawn.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 299, 16 December 1911, Page 5
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