BAN ON SALMON FISHING

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27924, 22 March 1956, Page 13

BAN ON SALMON FISHING

Russian Decree In Pacific (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 21. Russia has put a four months ban on salmon fishing by ships of all nationalities in a big stretch of the Northwestern Pacific, the official Soviet news agency. Tass, said today. The agency said the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union decided on the restriction to end the “rapacious” catch of salmon on fish migration routes in the open. sea.

Tass said that the restrictions, which specify three zones outside Soviet territorial waters, would last during the salmon spawning season from May 15 to September 15. '

It described the restricted zones as the Sea of Okhotsk, the western part of the Bering Sea. and an area of the Pacific stretching south from Cape Olyutorsk and then south-west of the Kuriles.

The new Russian decree follows a dispute last month between the Soviet Government and Japanese fishermen on salmon fishing off the Siberian coast in the north-west Pacific.

Cigarette Smuggling In Spain

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. March 20. Spanish customs guards seized 2,000.000 cigarettes today on a beach near Corunna, in Northern Spain. They had just been unloaded from a motor yacht flying the English flag, the Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Express” reported tonight.

After an exchange of shots the smugglers abandoned the cigarettes and quickly made out to sea. According to Spanish law the cigarettes will be sold at public auction, the correspondent said.