Govt. Considering Fishing Incident
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, January 21.
The Government is considering a report of a sighting of a Japanese fishing mother ship and dories off Opotiki last Monday. The vessels were sighted by passing ships and were eight to nine miles from shore.
New Zealand has a 12-mile fishing limit. An External Affairs Department spokesman said today that the circumstances of the incident were being considered by the Government, and any action taken would depend on these circumstances, and at the discretion of the Government.
The spokesman said he doubted whether the incident was provocation by Japan after the introduction of the new limit on January 1. Earlier this month it was reported from Tokyo that a joint appeal to the International Court of Justice was more likely than a settlement between Japan and New Zealand on this fishing zone. The External Affairs Department spokesman in Wellington said that Japanese fishermen were exercising “a fair quiescence” at present,
and he did not think Japanese fishing had been accelerated since the limit was introduced.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 3
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