High Seas Salmon Conservation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 502, a Bill to Facilitate the Application and for Other Purposes ...

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Page 349 - The coastal state exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources. 2. The rights referred to in paragraph 1 of this article are exclusive in the sense that if the coastal state does not explore the continental shelf or exploit its natural resources, no one may undertake these activities...
Page 321 - ... 3. Any State whose vessels have made a practice of fishing in the outer six miles of the fishing zone established by the coastal State, in accordance with paragraph 2 above, for the period of five years immediately preceding I January 1958, may continue to do so for a period of ten years from 31 October 1960.
Page 349 - The natural resources referred to in this Part consist of the mineral and other non-living resources of the seabed and subsoil together with living organisms belonging to sedentary species, that is to say, organisms which, at the harvestable stage, either are immobile on or under the sea-bed or are unable to move except in constant physical contact with the sea -bed or the subsoil.
Page 320 - A State is entitled to fix the breadth of its territorial sea up to a maximum of six nautical miles measured from the applicable baseline.
Page 321 - October 31, 1960. 4. The provisions of Articles 9 and 11 of the Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, adopted at Geneva on 27 April, 1958, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the settlement of any dispute arising out of the application of the foregoing paragraph.
Page 324 - A sum of $450,000 for research on salmon and related species on the high seas of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, to strengthen the United States in negotiation with Japan and the USSR The International (Japan.
Page 322 - STATEMENT OF HON. ERNEST GRUENING, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF ALASKA Senator GRUENING. Mr. Chairman, I...
Page 319 - HR 9547, to facilitate the application and operation of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, and for other purposes), 4 pp., printed.

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