More Talks On Japan Fishing
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, Dec. 20. Three officials were being sent to New Zealand to expedite negotiations for Japanese fishermen’s safety operations off the New Zealand coast, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced today.
The negotiations, between New Zealand officials and the Japanese Ambassador to New Zealand (Mr Shinichi Kondo), have already begun. The talks are concerned with New Zealand's unilateral establishment of a 12-mile exclusive fishing zone from next January.
The Japanese Government held the view that Japan was not bound under international law by the domestic law of New Zealand on the fishing zone, the Ministry said. However, Japanese fishing off New Zealand would be
gravely affected if the law went into effect without any assurance for Japanese fishermen's safety operations. About 40 Japanese boats are fishing off the New Zealand coast to catch about 8000 tons of snapper a year, according to the Ministry.
Two of the three officials, Mr Tomoyoshi Kamenaga, director of the Fishery Agency's Broduction department, and tr Harunori Kaya, chief of the Foreign Ministry’s Commonwealth section, left Tokyo by air today for Wellington. The third official, Mr Masato Fujisaki, will join them later.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 1
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