BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 5

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA

TEMPORARY FISHERIES AGREEMENT (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 27tli May. The Anglo-Russian Temporary Fisheries Agreement, which comes into force immediately and is to serve as a modus vivendi pending the conclusion of a formal convention, permits British fishing boats to fish at a distance of three to twelve geographical miles from low water mark along the north coast of Russia and islands dependent thereon, and permits them to navigate and anchor in all waters near these coasts. As regards bays, the distance is measured from a line drawn across the bay in the part nearest the entrance to a point where the width does not exceed ten miles. The waters to wliocli the agreement applies lie between meridan 32 and 48 east. Nothing in the agreement is to prejudice the views held by either Government as to limits in international law of territory waters. There are two protocols, one providing that the agreement shall not entitle British fishing boats to navigate Russian inland: or other waters, which may be closed to foreign vessels generally, and the other to the effect that the British Government adheres .to their view as to the right of British fishing boats to fish in waters to which the temporary agreement does not apply, and reserving the right to reopen the question of limits specified therein, when negotiations for a formal convention take place.