Source: http://iea-archive.uoregon.edu/page.php?query=coded_all_lines&where=start&FilenameEQ=1946-MeshFishingNets
Timestamp: 2018-09-21 21:06:00
Document Index: 541005602

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art.2', 'Art.3', 'Art.4', 'Art.5', 'Art.6', 'Art.6', 'Art.8', 'Art.9', 'Art.10', 'Art.12', 'Art.12', 'Art.12', 'Art.13', 'Art.14', 'Art.15']

1946: Convention For The Regulation Of The Meshes Of Fishing Nets And The Size Limits Of Fish
Titl.1 Convention For The Regulation Of The Meshes Of Fishing Nets And The Size Limits Of Fish TITL TITL
Src.1 Source: http://www.oceanlaw.net/texts/mesh.htm SRC SRC
Art.2.1x Nothing in the present Convention shall be deemed to diminish the exclusive rights of vessels registered or owned in the territory of each Contracting Government to fish in waters where that Contracting Government has exclusive jurisdiction over fisheries. SOVR SOVR
Art.3.1x Nothing in this Convention shall be deemed to prejudice the claims of any Contracting Government in regard to the limits of territorial waters. SOVR SOVR
Art.4 Article 4 SCOP SCOP
Art.5.1x No vessel shall carry on board or use any trawl, seine, or other net towed or hauled at or near the bottom of the sea, which has in any part of the net meshes of dimensions less than those specified in Annex 1 to this Convention. ATTACH ATTACH
Art.6.1x.b (b) any fish in excess of the percentages set out in Annex III to this Convention, of the species set out in Annex II to this Convention, which may be captured by such instruments and which are of less than the minimum sizes prescribed in Annex II to this Convention shall be returned to the sea immediately after capture; and ATTACH ATTACH
Art.6.1x.c (c) provided that in the period from 1st June, 1963 to 1st June, 1966, no nets having in the cod-end meshes of dimensions between 50 mm (irrespective of material used) and the minimum sizes specified in Annex. I shall be carried or used by vessels in the waters of that part of the Convention area defined in that paragraph, except- ATTACH ATTACH
Art.8.1x Subject to the provisions of Annex III to this Convention, no vessel shall retain on board any sea fish of the descriptions set out in Annex II to this Convention, of a less size than the size prescribed therein for each fish, and all such fish shall be returned immediately to the sea; provided that they may be retained on board for the purpose of transplantation to other fishing grounds. ATTACH ATTACH
Art.9.1x Subject to the provisions of Annex III to this Convention, each Contracting Government undertakes to prohibit by regulations the landing, sale, exposure or offer for sale, in its territories of any sea fish of the descriptions set out in Annex II to this Convention which are of a less size than the size prescribed therein for each fish and have been caught in the waters defined in Article 1 of this Convention, whether such fish are whole or have had their heads or any other part removed. ATTACH ATTACH
Art.10.1x The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to fishing operations conducted for the purposes of scientific investigation, or to fish taken in the course of such operations, but fish so taken shall not be sold, or exposed or offered for sale in contravention of the provisions of Article 9. SCIR SCIR
Art.12 Article 12 HOBS HOBF REVW SECF HOBS HOBF SUBS
Art.12.5 (5) It shall be the duty of this Commission to consider whether the provisions of this Convention should be extended or altered. For this purpose the Commission shall where practicable consult the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. RELA RELA
Art.12.9 (9) Reports of the proceedings of the Commission shall be transmitted by the President of the Commission to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which shall in turn communicate them to all the Governments which have ratified or acceded to this Convention. INFO
Art.13 Article 13 DEFN DEFN
Art.14 Article 14 MEMB EIF MEMB EIF
Art.15 Article 15 MEMB EIF DEPO MEMB DEPO EIF
Conc.1 Annexes omitted CONC CONC