BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 9

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

FISHERIES AGREEMENT

TERRITORIAL LIMITS DEFINED British OBeMal Wlreleai KUGBY, 27th May. The Anglo-Bussian temporary fisheries agreement, which comes into force immediately, and is to serve as a modus vivendi pending the conclusion of a forma) convention, permits British fishing boats to fish -at a distance of three to twelve geographical miles from the low water mark along the North Coast of Russia and the islands dependent thereon, and permits them to navigate and anchor iv all waters near these coaste. , .

As regards bays, tho distance is measured from a lino drawn across the bay in tho part nearest the entrance at a point where the width does not exceed ten miles. In the White Sea, British fishing boats may fish northward of latitude 68 degrees north outside threo miles from land. The waters to which tho agreement applies lie between meridian 32 and 48 east. Nothing in the agreement is to prejur dice the views held by either Government a^ to the limits in International Law of territorial waters;

There are two Protocols; one providing that the agreement shall not entitle British fishing boats to navigate in Kussian inland or other waters, which may >be closed to foreign vessels generally, and the other to the effect that the British Government adhere to its view as to the right of British fishing boats 1;o fish in waters to which the temporary agreement does not apply and. reserving the right to reopen the question of the limits specified therein when negotiations for a formal convention take place.