Worldwide Report Law of the Sea No. 163

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BALTIC SEA COUNTRIES AGREE ON PACT TO CONTROL HAZARDOUS CARGO
te leickt HELSTNGIN SANOMAT in Fianieh 2 Jul 81 p ?

|Article: “Ships Carrying Hererdeuws Carge in the Baltic Sea To Be More Closely
Monitored” |

[Rucerpe| The Baltic See government hewe agreed to the establishment of « position
reporting syetem to coordinate information on ships carrying chemicals, gas, etc.
The purpose of the eyetem ie to teprowe the safety of savigaetion in the Baltic Sea,
oe well af Co gake powetble timely and effective preventive seasures in case of
pollution in the see eres. The syetem was agreed upon ae part of the Treaty on
Protection of the Baltic. tte teet period begen on 1 July 1961.

Included ‘a the position reporting agreement are 411 shipe hewing « cargo tonnage
capacity of ower 20,000 ert, as well ae those ships traneporting over 1,600 grt of
chemicals or gas. According to the agreement, the ships will report volunterily
their route and position to the reporting center of their reepective country.

The Fianish reporting center was established at the headquarters of the Gulf of
Finland Coast Geaerd. The center will be tn serwice 24 houre « day around the year,
and will be operated by an officer end redic operators.

The ship reports will be obtained by the center either from the aeritiae redic
station or directiy from the ship. The reporting lenguage te Eaglieh, and the
operating time will be GT.

The aeers of communication te by telex.

The center receives reports, sonitors the ship's reported sowement end trevweite
the reports to other centers.

Bvelustions besed on results during the test period will be used to examine the
need for the syetes as well «8 to decide on

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PAPUA NEW CULNEA FISH CONTAMINATED WITH MERCURY, SEIZED
Brisbane THE COURIER-MAIL in Engiltieh 20 May 81 p 14

|Teat) The Prime Minteter’s Department had intervened

te try te hewe 2900 ke of contaminated berremund! released
for sale in Qeeeneland, the Leber MLA for Lytton, Mr Toe
Burne, laimed vesterday.

He said the interference hed come after « telephone call from the department of
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minieter, Sir Julies Chan. The fish was sent free
Papua New Guines.

Mr Burne said teats conducted by the State Gowernment's chemical laboratory
had shown the berramund! to hawe 10 per cent gore than the elloweble saxiaun
amount of sercury.

The fish had been submitted for testing by the Customs Bureau.

Mr Burne said the laboratory recetwed « telephone call from the Commonwealth
Health Department asking it to check again.

“They conducted gore teats and found exactiy the same thing-~the fish was sot
fit for sale,” be eatd.

Mr Burne claimed the Commomvesith spokesman told the laboratory they had « aee-
sage from Canberra to say the berremund! gust be released. This hed followed
& request from Sir Julius Chan's department. The fish would be worth about
$20,000.

Mr Burne said another 2000 ke of Papuse New Guines barramundi hed now arrived in
Brisbane after being rerouted from Swdney.

He said the baerramund! was «till ender refrigeration at Murrerie and he had
asked the State Health Minteter, Mr Awetin, to investigate.

“I don't want that fish served ep on any table except the one at Parliament
House in Canberra,” “r Burne said.

A State Health Department «spokesmen confirmed yesterday that its chemical
laboratories aed analysed the berramund! for the Customs Bureau but could not
comment on the cesult.

AUSTRALIA

) SHORE OLL SEARCH NEAR DAMPLER PLANNED SOON
Melbourne THE ACT in Paglieh 2 Jun 61 p 23
‘Articole by Nigel Wileen: “CRA Will Take Part in O11 Search Off Dampier")

text) Awetralla’s biggest @ining house, CRA, is goving into high-cost oi)
exploration off Western Australia.

it is bellewed negotiations have been completed for CRA to take part in a gulti-
eillten deller drilling programme off Dampier.

eA would set comment veeterday, but it isa believed details will be iseaued

shert ly.

‘he @ewe is a Galfer etep for CRA which had scaled down its petroleum interests

yd comcentrated on Gining and metal activities. Like gany sinning companies

(8A does sot regard the huge coset of off-shore petroleum exploration as sanguinely
ae deo ofl ompanies.

the damper permit, efftetally described as permit WA 56 P, is inshore from the
North Meet Shelf gee fleld. Legend Ne 1, which the old Burmah 011 Company
iriiled te the ereas ta the 19606, produced « non-commercial of1 flow.

~ perRit was awarded to the emall Perth-based group Stirling Petroleum in 1976
which eubeequentiy drilled one dry hole and then farmed out to the well-connected
anadian-owned group Hudbay Austraita.

fee permir eres ie @ainly in relativey shallow water and is regarded by WA
eeologtets as proepective for ofl rather than gas.

Tienes ore for the @rillehip, Petramar North Sea, now refitting in Singapore, to
reach the region tn the first week of July.

tedbeaw te enderetoed to have farmed in on 17) blocks of the permit and can earn
up to 85 per cent laterest through an extensive drilling programe. Presumably
theese percentages will change if CRA joins the venture.

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AUSTRALIA

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SPEARFISHING BAN~--New regulations banning commercial spearfishing on the Great
Barrier Reef of f central Queensland could help beat the crown of thorns star-
fish infestation, Dr Robert Endean said yesterday. But the ban should be ex-
tended to the whole reef to be effective, Dr Endean said when commenting on the
new regulations tabled in Federal Parliament on Thursday. They implement the
zoning plan for the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
Dr Endean, reader in zoology at queensland University, said the legislation was
long overdue. He said the crown of thorns were on their “second time around”
aiong the reef. They had caused tremendous damage in the 19608, but moved away
after the coral recovered. Now they were back again. Dr Endean said spear~
fishing had killed many groper and cod that ate the starfish. It was unfortun-
ate the ban applied only to the Capricornia section at the southern end of the
reef. Action should be taken in the Cairns, Innisfail and Townsville region,
where the crown of thorns starfish has returned in large numbers. (| Excerpt)

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PHILIPPINES

ACTION URGED ON SEA ZONE
Manila BULLETIN TODAY in Engliah 7 Jun 61 pp 1, 11

Text) Malolos, Bulacan, June 6=--Labor Minteter Blas F. Ople today said the na-
tional government should now organize ite reso 'rces to protect, conserve, and de-
velop ite 200-mile economic zone as declared in Presidential Decree 1599.

The minister said the decree, litt . ©» ‘iced when it was promulgated in 1979,
“enormously expanded the scope c %ur i»sponsibilities in protecting our economic
and social ra,hte in surrounding »aters."

Ople urged the immediate creation of a presidential inter-ministerial body to im-
plement the law declaring a 200-mile economic zone in its political, economic, and
social ramifications. ,

Ople keynoted the first national seminar on the control of illegal fishing attended
by experts of the bureau of fisheries and aquatic resources at the Bulacan conven-
tion center.

To give meaning and reality to the declaration of the 200-mile econumic zone, Ople
said, various minietries or agencies should organize a “total national capa ility,"
including the Philippine Navy, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of
Local Governments, and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

Ople said fishermen in Iba, Zambales, have often complained of foreign poachers
ramming their emall craft.

Ople said the RP-US bases agreement has made possible a package of assistance to
the Philippines which will accelerate the buildup of the country's coast guard
capability.

The minister said the Ministry of Transportation and Communication should replace
the present system of coastwise communication which has become ‘nadequate. "This
is a hand-me-down from US forces in Vietnas which can no longer be efficiently
serviced with spare parte,” ‘e said.

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GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

TheNOS TR DEEPSEA FISHING POR 1980's OUTLINED
Lest Berlin SPPMIRTSOCHAPT in German Vol 13 We 5, May 81 pp 247-250

j|Article by Capt Georg Neasler, engineer, economist, chief inepector for maritime
safety and pavigetion, VER Fishing Combine, Rostock: “The GDR's Deep-Sea Fishing
and ite Possibilities Under the Changed Conditions of the 1980's")

|Text) Third UN Sea Law Conference, which has been in seasion since 1973, is to
terminate ite activities with the passage of 4 new sea law convention during the
second hall of 1961. Seweral years will pase until ite entry inte force because
the copvention must firet be ratified by 4 corresponding number of participating
‘owntfies which fepresent a specifically determined ship tonnage inventory. This
process ie of practical significance to ocean fishing only to the extent that the
xpaneion of the national fishing sones froe 3} or 12 nautical miles to 200 nautical
miles, which is to commence a6 of the etart of the conference, is to be approved
ueder international law afterward by all coastal countries. The expansion of the
fiehery limit te 200 nautical miles or the establishment of national fishing zones
of economic somes was « particularly hard blow to countries which, because of

heif short cosetlines, are dependent upon long-distance fishing; those countries
slee include the GOR of euch other countries which do have a long coastline but
vhoee coastal approaches do net contain eufficiently productive fishing grounds to
met their fish needs.

The buildup of the GOR's own ocean fishing fleet began in 1949 with Soviet heip,
along with the construction of fishing porte and the improvement or new construction
of a fish-processing industry. Fish was urgently needed {cr feeding the GR popu-
lation, in @guch larger quantities than the beach and coastal fishermen vere able to
catch along the GDR coset. There were, to be sure, rich stocks of fish in the
fishing regions in the Baltic and the North Sea, off Iceland and off the Norwegian
cowet, in the Barents Sea and in the rest of the Arctic Ocean. We need correspond-
ing vessels, techniques, and abowe ali ekilled crews so that we might use thes for
ithe GDR. We were able to place ewer larger and gore modern ships in service and

we were able to deliver @ore and gore fish. The crews very soon operated their new
equipment skillfully aed through their achievements contributed to the international
recognition and respect given to the young republic.

de were able to fish in ever sore productive although partly sore remote fishing
grounds as 4 result of the fleet's growth, the use of larger, technically and tech-
nologically gore sodern ships (for example, factory vessels and fishing flotilles

with base vessels). In the Beginning, GOR fishing vessels were operating ome ivr
sively in the Baltic and the Nerth Sea; between the siddie end the end of the fale
ties they were already operating if 41) fHerthern Burepean fishing grounds and we
began our first fishing cruises to the lishing grownds off Sewlowndland and Lab-
rador, During the sixties, GDP [ishing vessels were already operating in a1) fiat
ing grounds in the northern At tic and the Aretic Geean, ime luding the fishing
regions off Greenland and the « «et of the United States. The first fishing eu-
peditions were alee carried owl i Affican watere. The organisational structure of
the GOR fishing fleet was adapted to fishing conditions tn serthers seritiae fre-
W were geared toward catching and processing the
hbiod of Cieh that wae in keeping with the pepuletion’s cemeumption habits. Theat
iv luded quetly herring, epreate, cod, Norway haddock, Clownder, end sesiane. The
verecls in our culter deepeaee [ishing component were operating in the Beltic and
ihe North Sea while the loewgetenge e¢@an fishing weasels operated apetiy of f ice-
iund, Greentend, Canada, the Voited States, a6 well ae the coset of Rerway a1) the
way up toe Spitebergen and in the Barents Sea, in the se-celied remote regions.
Fiehing operations in the individual regions depended on the intensity of the
spawning and feeding conditions for the variows especies of fish and on environments)
comditions, in ether words, they were heavily seasensliy taf lueenced,

As an eapreseion of worldwide recognition for the GOR, ocean fishing conditions
ong Other things alse changed. Joining the aajor international fishing conver-
tions, in eddition te 4 series of positive results, aiee entailed certain reetric~
‘iome in Flehing peseibilittee dwe te the determination of catch quotes and other
sures Fepulatiog the cateh voleme. Te aeke eure that these fishing restrict ions
would oot hewe «© Segetive effect on the supply for the population, the yield free
the Cieh cought wee lecreeased with the help of sew technologies end aodern aechines,
for exemple, the waste deriving from the killing and filet-ceutting of fish was
ri den od,

By using @etete ioforgetion getheds aed equipment and through the bread involvement
of scientific discowertes it wee possible te imprewe operational plenning further
oe te we the weeeele to eeeh @ @enner that beth the cateh quotes were etilised
to the @o8t cxteneive degree, while it wae alee possible to aeke optique use of

ihe fishing Fregioms that were o8 yet still eweileble. ina seddition te further or
gehizational @easures, crew rotation end the use of refrigereter and t(reaspert vee-
eels led te better fleet genegement and thus to en increese in ite seeete Gur to «
reduction in the time required for the round-trip as such. The consistent tapie-
mntation of all of these Geesures and target~-oriented ideelogica: work With the
~eanefishing «fews guaranteed «4 rich catch for aany years.

in the Peropean afea, it wae ftiret of all leeland=-«@ cowetrw which liwes free fieh
which during the early sixtics extended ite territerial waters free te if seu-
tical giles, foellewed by 4 Wenautios! eile fishing sone and, im 1974, finally, «
)00-neutical eile ec omemic some which te ot the oom tier «4 fishing sone. This one-
sided geeeere, justified tin terags of the bielegicael threat te the fish setecks sround
Iceelond and the demand to implement the emclesive setiona) etiliestion of live ocesn
reeowroes fe that regies, at firet led te serious contreweretos with 411 fishing
oommt oes which @ettll thee bad engaged in highly worthwhile fishing im the icelandic
fishing grownds. te the course of the seasions of the Third UN See Law Conference,

eo ot hem, wens ve { -epatome Che Ciehetiow bimite te 200 nau
tical Giles, tmefeesingly prewetled with thelr Viewpeet, After other counttics
(for exemple, the Vetted States, the EEC countries, Serway, and Sweden) likewioe
eapended their fishing somes, the sociaiiet countries jivewiee bed te alter their
views, which were aimed ageinel entireme expansions vf comes reserved exclusively
for cosets) countries, end established their own fiehing sones,

Tee @omend of (he geographically disadvantaged countries (which alee include the
Te) te the effect that they showld get fiehing frighte from the surplus of other
tal owetrlee= «be commected with the general fecegnition of the right of the
eetei owetirfies te wttlize eean feaeureres if @ 20) eautical eile coastal approach
oe (te the extent Chat Chie be geographically peeeibie) a8 well a8 their pledge
lo ftegulete Clehing eed Co im lement Geaeutee designed to prevent excessive fishing
sed protect fishing resources, Thie @eane that the share of the possible catch,
which wee in edwance determined by « particular coastal country and which the latter
wee Sot able iteelf te cateh, wee te be Gaede evel labie te othet countries,

Aithowgh thie te Set vel generaliy Fecognived international law, there is today
herdiy eny coweteal cowntry which hee fet established ite own fishing of economic
some te Om )pametion with ite territorial water. In practice, the sebandongent of the
bewic pie tiple ef “Cree Clehing,” eweh a6 it hed prevailed approniastely since

t Pe ‘th -optery, deweloped te the entent that, upon the establiehment of national
fiehiog ceea, the caetal countries independently exercise sovereign rights over
simeoet af) fiehbing fegiome that bed been worked wntil now, that is to say, they

we oo longer eubject te any international contrei. Thie geane that about 90 per
ent of the hithert ‘otereationslly esed fieh etecke are sow under the national
legislation of the perticular coeetal countries. Basically, each coastal country
Seabee ite decisions om the beetle of ite own--often quite ineufficient--knowledge
regerding the volume of the possible cateh and the surplus that sight possibly be
dietributed it determines eccoréding to ite own estimate which countries it allows
to fieh from the eerples in ite own fishing sone and ender what conditions. These
comd it lems geetly tewelwe Che site end sugber of weasels allowed to fish, the nuaber
of fiehing grownd daye per ship, deter@ination of restricted fishing areas and no-
fiehing comes, restricted (ishing times, fieh lengths, determinations regarding
fishing gear, o8 Weil 28 Supervisory and other seasures.

in this commection we can increasingly clearly recognize 4 trend to the effect that
the «oamtal countries, which already have 4 well-dewelopec cational fishing industry,
however? aleo those other countries, which by virtue of their economic potential are
in © pewitiom te build ep their own ocean fishing industry, are trying 46 soon as
powsiblie fully te etilise the fish wealth off their own coasts themselves so that
they oo longer ollew any foreign fishing wo eeele to enter their fishing sones.

Theat inwelwes eapectally the European and American countries. For example, the
United States hee already indicated that only very emall surplus quantities could
we diatributed ower the seat several years. This is so even though the fishing
grounds off the United States coast during the years prior to the establishment of
fishing somes were included among the gost productive fishing grounds in the North
\t lent i. -*areas that were being harvested by international fishing fleets. Com-
pared to the total fishing volume, the volume caught by American fishermen was
extremely email.

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lie Sitemt ian tm + bite Lh ler count fies whieh fer the time being d& wet heve
the eCoe SE fen@th quicktiy te bulld ap @ @eterA fishing fieet with the «ertee=
oowding suppert facilitiee (Liehing porte, repair yards, fish precessing plante,
fieh trade, etc.) and which de fet hawe the Seceenery techwica! personnel te eper-
ate the veesele and the suppert facilities in order te exploit the emieting fieh
stocks if an economically and bielogically qeantngful fashion,

The Tiehing somes of those countriee= primarily African countfles=-thus have @ real
bin surplus. These countries, wWhese leng-fenge goal a8 4 fule likewiee invelves
ie bulldup of @ etrong setional fishing indwetry, ere using their fish wealth by
~ ) tog the Fishing Fight® te interested parties or by allowing and supporting the
reation of @imed companies for fishing and for the processing of fish and other

serine animale,

Dering the @iddle of the seventiog, the expansion of the fisheries lisite in seat
of the fishing grownde harvested by the GOR became G0 noticeable that the yield
dropped by shout 40 percent compared to the earlier years. Net antil the ene of
the ec ¥eotio® wae It possible, due te @ large umber of fishing-policy activities,
mete to attate @ lewel whteh- «considering the fleet's organisational setrecture=-
roughly corfespended te the lewel prier te the tntreduction of the new fishing

open The lessen learned eo far, the lawestigations in the fishing-policy field,
ie oepleretten and dewelopment of new cateh and production possibilities, and the
ote poration of longerange development programe in recent yeare fore the foundat ian
for the etretegy eed tactics of GOR fisheries policy during the eighties and guar~
mice the om@plowment of the GOR fishing fleet during that span of time. Considering
ihe sotlcipated teternational fishing-policy dewelopments and ite own reproduct ion
-opdit ions, the GDR ocean-fishing industry hae the following possibilities for

guet ooteeiag the supply of the population with fieh and fish products during the

eming veare:

Even sore efficient utilisation of catch possibilities in ocean areas that are
etill freely available;

A stable opt ium (Ciehing syetes, in keeping with biological possibilities, ineti-
tuted in the GOR's own fishing sone;

The development of industrial fish production in coastal waters and increased { iah-
ing in iniend leke waters, in the wetlands in our coastal districts, and the other
inlend water bodies in the GDR;

Stubilieotion ead expansion of invernational relations in order to obtein fishing
righte tin the fishing fenese of other countries; and

Active coofation in the cerrently exteting fishing conventions to preserve catch
quotes for epecial epectes of fish in the saritime regions administered by these

con ent iene,

The possibilities for fishing operations in as yet freely available ooran regions
are relatively limited. Ae far as we know today, they would include the waters
in the Antaretic, in which the GOR fleet has been doing seasonal fishing for several

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yout), @@ well of parte of the seuthesetera Par it tc The long @letencee which

mel be cowered here=- compared te the worth and eiddle Atlantic fishing grownde--
feeull tm considerable economic burdens te commertion with Ciehing operations.

For the seke of the gost economical possible operetione it te secessery te wee lenge
ond complen fletillas which hewe fleeting ef shore beeee for repel, reequipeent,
ond fuel supply, o8 well a6 refvigereter weasels te femewe the fish thet wae caught
ved thet wee subeequeetiy deepefresen, Another poesth. lity would be te awit & to
decpet Tiehing grewnde outside the Ciehing seme. Sev-celled “deepeeee Cieh’ g” how
evel entatle @ series of presently es yet unresolved problems and is connected with
relatively heavy coat and great €ifficulttes, Compered te the fishing grewnde weed
~ (let, we hewe eoormeue pressure increases wheee effecte on the fishing gear can
wot wet be fully countered, We seed sew teehwnelogios end teehniques for lower ing
ond reieing Clehing gear end for dragemetting «¢ great depths end we et1)) de aot
have suf fictentiy reliable biological knowledge conceroing the possibilities of
prodwetive fishing in deep ccoan regione.

Fiehing operatiove in the Git's fiebiang somes in recent years seeumed incresring
significance for the COR fiehing industry, eapectally efter the introduction of
fishing somes tf the entire Baltic Sea. Priem te the tntreduction of the new fieh-
ime limite, the eeeeel catch woleme (8 Che regten of the present dey GR f iahing
comes amounted te shout one-third of the tetal catch volume of ocean fishing in the
Bultic Seat todew, ebewt 9 percent of the GDRs Baltic Sea catch te annually put
aehore trom that region. te edition we hawe the fact that we can get herring,
which t® @e pepeler te the GOR, aleeet only from thet fiehing region sew. A weli-
coordinated and far-sighted Cliehing policy will «lee help us keep fishing operat ions
etvcedy tm thie fliehiag region io the fetere. Thies can be promoted especially by
the following:

Preduction of young Cieh through thy eetabitehment of reatricted fishing sones;
hen on fiehing ond detereinetion of “intewe aeeh sire;
Constant bielogical inepection of the productivity of owr fishing stocks;

Coordination with other Baltic See countries in the contest of the Baltic Sea Fish-
ing Commission.

Right mow, imcreesing attention is being dewoted t« the development of induetrial
fish predewction in coestel waters. Trowt breeding end carp production ender brackish
watet conditions will be incressed from sewerel hundred to gore than « thowsand

tome. The Geceeeery perecemel, financial, aeterial, end orgenicetionsl seasures
hove been Lown hed ead the (iret production plants of thie kind ere working suc~
cowefully. te cenmecttion with the seed for the better etilisetion of cur own re-
serves, We fe ces igning gore and gore significance to the republic's totel water
reserves, the ponds, rivers, and lakes. In theese waters, yields ere being increased
through imc reesed stocking with young fish, through the (aprovement of sanded or
mud- logged iskes and ponds, and corresponding environmental protection seesures.

The further iagprovement and consolidation of relations with other cosstel countries
--among other things for the purpose of obtaining fishing opportunities in their
fishing somes--aere of decisive igpertence in terms of the eaployeent of the GOR

m» tieheng ties One Possibility would be te entet inte lishing treatios, On
wit Deele, Credit ione) Fights could be claimed within certain time limite, and
feo ipeecal ewrvices (Lor emample, sciemtificetectmical performance, biological and
| ehingetocheique feseareh work, veeational training) #8 well a8 the purchase of

fiehieg licensee could be agreed upon,

oot powetbiisty Cor Clebiag te predwctive Clehing growndse in the fishing scones
other (cwntrtes .ewelwee Che eetablieheent of joint, so-called “eined companies”
‘eee alee the ortic le entitied “Statue and Prospects of Ocean Fishing,” No }, 1981,
») © TSOMAPT) Various forme are possible here whereby the co#etal country a8 «
witibutes the teitial capital and=«te the extent that they are in existence
ihe ehete fectlittes and tseues permite for fiehing while the other country in
ie eee batten @ehee the ships avallable. Thies te moatly connected with the re-
quifement fer reeruiting « pertion ef ‘the crews for thoee ships from the coastal
owetr euch @imed companies however gekes sense only if
the Tiehiog some of Che coeetel country contains fiehing grownds which for any
vate (eo com Cectlitete «a high yield. This gust toewelwe especies of fish which can
~ towdily eold en the world gerket because gerketing ie handied by the company
oe the tome ef the capiteliet garket economy. Naturally, this aleo includes «
(hoe e of of hor prerequiattes, eapeetally regarding the stationing of fishing ves-
ihre we ore presently on virgin territory in the fishing industry and we
| pother the mcessary experience.

i youre, «© certate ohare of the catch wae guaranteed on the basis of re-
iyo ottes, for example, Chreugh gutual exchange of fish caught, through the
i treditiowel fiehing cighte, of the purchase of fishing licenses; so tar
Los pet been posaible to obtain fishing rights through the formation of a sixed
‘pany The Megotiating partoere either introduced demands that could not be set
r the economic and Clehing prerequisites for the establishment of the company did
oot offespond to the objectives of both partners. Sometimes the establishwent of
» Sixed company however simply failed because of the legislation of the particular
oeetal cowntry in whose fishing sone the GDR is interested.

oother kied of ioternational cooperation in fishing involves fishing operations

” & coptract beeis for individual foreign companies in their fishing zone. This

owolwes @ kind of service which is paid for by a part of the fish caught. The
spany gete the fiehing license from ite government.

wrion the «oming years, the GDR fishing fieet will be further rebuilt. New unite
«il th pleeced te service and obsolete veesele will be taken out of the inventory.
That towelwes eet only long-distance fishing vessels but also the cutter fleet,
which ts aeed geinly in the GOR fishing sone. With the support of the party leader-
ship ond the gowernment, the republic's ocean fishing industry is carrying out the
» of @eceRReTY to guarantee the utilization of the fishing fleet. Through

teeoir complexity, these measures enable us to aske sure that the GOR ocean fishing
industew will in the future Iikewiee be able to supply the fish needed for feeding
the population, considering international fishing-policy developments.

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OL SPTLA FINE REDUCTION=-The $40,000 fine imposed on the captain of the cruise
scip Veendam just three weeks ago for epillimg etl tar the Great Sound wae
yesterday quashed. Describing the fine handed down by ‘agietrate the Wor. K. ©,
Nedarajah as “excessive” the Chief Justice the Hon. James Astwood instead
ordered that a 55,000 fine be paid. The captain of the Veendam, Cormelius
Hoenderos, 55, wae found guilty of causing the two 0-feot~-long black slicks on
April 20 while hie ship was anchored off King’s Point, Alpha teland. On behal’
of the ehip and Hoenceros, Mr Coles Diel, appealed the penalty. Yesterday Mr
Astwood upheld the appeal, saying that the slicks were caused by accident and
not @iechief. “The evidence does not disclose « deliberate act of pumping or
the dumping of ofl inte the Great sound,” he eaid. “The highest that the case
can be put is that the epillage cceurred through the careleseness of the ship's
crew in falling to inepect the discharge vales to have them kept free o' debris.”
te compared the $40,000 fine with fines teposed last year @m the ships Alert and
Kilmelford for similar offences--they vere fined $4,000 and $500 respectively.
‘Text) [Hamilton THE ROYAL GAZETTE in Bnglieh 3 Jun 81 p 3)

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Leen) TERRITORIAL WATERS VIOLATION--The Mintetry of Justice has announced that on
il February 198) Angolan authorities in charge of patrolling our coastal waters
vad detected the Iraqi beat “Al Rasese” fishing within our territertal waters of f
Nocenedes. The captain of thie fliehing beat hed been emable to present the
necessary eutherization. Angolan esutherities went to court, and the trial opened
at the Sh Lewede Criminal Court on § Jame. Ase « result, the qmer of the ship
wae ‘leed 275),080,000 kwanees. The boat wae seized by order of the court and ts
now in the Leande barber. The sentence alee ewerded to the Angolan estate the
boat's cateh emounting te 6)? tone of fish and 75 tone of fish aeal. Fishing
equipment wae alec confiscated. The shipowner's lawyer is appealing the sentence.
Judge Joe Alwee Monteiro was the presiding aagietrete. [Text) [Luanda JORNAL DE
ANGOLA in Portuguese 14 Jun 61 p i)

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MARITIME PROTECTION AGREEMENT WITH MAURITANIA
Abidjan PRATERNITE MATIN in French 2) Jun 81 p }
|Article by Desire Gnangnan: “Preservation of Maritime Resources™ |}

itxcerpt) A garitiae cooperation agreement was signed yesterday between the Ivory
Coast end the lelamic Republic of Mauritania.

benie Nioupin, director for international cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign
Allaire. and Hamouwd Ould Ely, Mauritanian embassador to the Ivory Coast, signed the
doc uament.

This cooperation agreement between our country and Mauritania concerns the asarine
environment, coastal sones and neighboring interior somes under the jurisdiction
of Weet African and Central African countries, from Meuritania to Namibia.

The general provisions of this agreement indicate that the two parties can conclude
bilateral and eultilateral agreewents, including regional and subregional agree-
ments aimed at ensuring the protection of their aarine environment and of the
coastal areas of Central and West Africa.

Te this end, « research, study and evaluation program couid be carefully prepared
and weed to preserve our saritine resources.

Moreover, the agreement stipulates that the two parties sust adopt 411 appropriate
measures conforming to international law to prevent, reduce, combat and achieve--
within the area sentioned in the agreement--pollution in all its aspects: pollution
from ships, pollution deriving from their submersion operations, pollution of
telluric origin and pollution resulting from activities connected with the explora-
tion and exploitation of the sea bottom and its underground.

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[CELAND, BELGIUM SIGN NEW AGREEMENT OW QUOTAS
Reyk javik MORGUNBLADID in leelandic 12 Jum 8! p

[Text] leeland and Belgium signed « treaty yeeterdsy modifying Belgium's
fishing permit within leeland's economic sone. The mein changes involve «
O-ton cut in Belgium's annual quote for thie year and « 600-ton cut for

next year. The catch can be landed only in Belgiue. Purthermore, Belgiue
agreed to considerably stricter monitoring sions than were included in
the 1975 pact and to narrower fishing areas. They sleo agreed to let the
fishing permite of Belgian trawlers, which were revoked on the firet of the
month, teke affect again on 15 July. Between then end the end of the year they
are permitted to catch up to 2,000 tons, 200 of which can be cod.

The following changes and additions were made to the 1975 pact: Belgian vessels
will be prohibited from landing their catch from icelandic fisheries other
then in Belgium. Cod quest be seperated from other species on board. The
Coast Guard will obtain detailed information on the size and capacity of the
Belgien trawlers’ storage espace in order to make it easier to gauge the

catch on board.

The Coast Guard will receive daily reports about the cod quote and the overall
catch as well.

The jobs of inspectors whom Iceland might send to monitor the catch of Belgien
vessels coming from Icelandic fishing grounds will be facilitated. Belgien
trawlers are obliged to dock at the closest harbor in Iceland if the Coast
Guard considers it necessary for checkup purpoers.

In the event that « Beigian trawler is found guilty of « major violation of
the pact, it can be deprived of ite fishing permit temporarily or, in the case
of a second offense, persanently.

Belgium will not be permitted to fish in fishery IV (Selwogebenki) in March,
April and May and in fishery ¥ (southeast of the Reykjenes Peninsula) in
April. Until the end of thie year Belgium will be allowed to catch up to
2,000 trons. The cod catch can newer exceed 10 percent of « boat's total catch
on any one trip during thet period. Belgium is permitted to resume fishing on
1S July. On | January 1962, the annual quote of Belgien trewlers will be
reduced from the present 5,000 tons to 4,400 tons.

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The allowed cod catch is 25 percent of the total catch on each fishing trip.

Jon L. Arnalds, winietry director, wae asked whether thie amounted to |, 100
tone and, therefore, an increase in Belgium's cod quote, which was only 750
tons before the agreement. He said that thie was, im fact, not th case, as
the Belgian trawlers did not catch cod on most of their fishing trips, and
therefore, cod constitutes only five percent of the overall catch. When they
did catch cod, however, it never exceeded 25 percent of the totel catch. Thus,

the proportion of cod to the overall catch is expected to remain at about 15
percent.

Prime Minister Olafur Johannesson signed the pact om behalf of leelend, and
Jacques Vernar, the Belgian embassador to Iceland, signed on behalf of Belgiuna.

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AMBASSADOR ANDERSEN DISCUSSES AN MAYER, LOS ISSUES
Reyk jevik MORCUNBLADID in icelandic 6 Jun 6! p 2)

[interview with Ambessedor Hane C. Andersen about the Jen Mayen agreement,
the Rocksl! eres and the Lew of the Sea , date and plece not
speci fied)

{Text} “Thie will be che firet time thet such an agreement,
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of
At the beginning of the interview with
the Jan Mayen agreement meant thet «
been established thet could be of major consequence eleewhere. His
anewer wes:

[Anewer)] The besic etenderd in thie kind of territorial division is to set
@ goal for « reasonable solution. Very often the middle line is reasonable,
and thet quest be considered under special circumstances. Thus, it was «
question of reaching « just solution. There ere so limits on methods as
long es the perties agree. We hewe examples of autual development, for
exemple eround Japan and Maleysiea, but the cases differ so auch in vuorious
respects that no genera! conclusions cou be reached.

The Jan Mayen Committee agreed to pey special attention to the emell size
of the island and to take into eccownt that Iceland does not heave access
to oil ereas, and these viewpoints resulted in the agreement thet

Theses, « widdle line would only give ws 145 ailes, and with 200 ail
25,000 square kilometers in eddition. Moreower, the

divided in balf. I think | cam say for sure thet it would be difficult
find two other nations thet could have agreed on that. I end Jens EBvensen
to get slong, end

heve known each other for 30 years and always been able
at wes certainly « pleasure for both of us to work

Elliot Richardson, who hae « Chorough knowledge of the Law of the Sea
ieeves and showed complete objectivity and kindness.

(Question) Will thie solution set an example for other agreements?!

[Anewer) Firet of all it wae an example of how to solve delicate problems
with good will and close cooperation. Tne solution iteeli will probably gain
much attention and be useful for those who are handling similar iseves, many
of which will certainly come up in the near future.

|\Question) How does thie solution fall within the framework of the Law of
the Sea pact?

|Anewer| It is very quch ie keeping with the pact and the standards on which
it is based, ae the etetes involved are expected to try to reach en agreement
and aim for a fair solution. And the moet difficult part is to decide what
ie fair. That ie the big question. At any rate, thie is an important
exemple of how to look at and resolve these issues.

[Question) Does the draft say anything about « similar solution’

‘Anewer) It i6 Crue that nowhere in thie enormous draft is there mention
of the options for joint ownership or qutual development. This option is
obviously more advantageous for us than to argue over « special dividing
line owteide the 200 miles, in which case most of the resource area would
have been granted to Norway.

|\Question) Has thie particular solution ever been discussed during any of the
many conferences that have been held over the past 10 or 15 years?

|Anewer, Wo, this is the firet time that such an agreement based on the draft
has been reached, and it quet be considered « major breakthrough in the
handling of these iseves. We should be happy about it and we must not forget
that we will have future discussions ebout ocean floor sreas.

it is @ mejor eeeet for use to have this solution in hand. And there is no
dowbt that Britain, Leeland and Denmark will etudy the documents thoroughly.
it would certainly be gratifying if we cowld work in the same spirit towards
the solution of the Rockall issue during the upcoming discussions. The
parties concerned are friendly sister countries that are obliged to seek

® just solution, in accordance with all of the circumstances.

|\Question| Wheat would you say about the Law of the Sea Conference itself?
|Anewer| As news reports have indicated, activities were supposed to end
this year, but the U.S. delegation felt it had to reconsider its stand and,

in fact, they didn't want to hold the next meeting until next year.
Nevertheless, we all agreed to hold « meeting in Geneva this summer.

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The U.S. delegation is working hard on ite investigations and will cooperate
with other delegations during the Auguet meeting.

Buc they have declared many times that their investigations will not be over
before thie meeting and perhaps not until late thie year.

[Question] Are many amendments expected from them?

[Anewer) The main point for ue is that we do not expect changes concerning
territorial waters, the economic sone and the continental shelf, but rather
in connection with the international seabed beyond the abovementioned areas.
The original aim wae to utilize thie area for the developing countries.

Seeing to this resource development hase always been considered the task of
a special international institute, but initially and for a long time the
developing countries demanded that the industrialized nations provide
money and technology for their free use at the institute.

This was not agreed to, and we have spent time seeking a reconciliation,

so that industrial firme can participate in the development on their own.

The main pointe that the U.S. delegation is making in this regard are that

too many concessions have been made in thie matter, that the institute has

too much power, even to exclude corporations, and that the companies involved
do not have enough guarantees for satisfactory profits on their investments and
efforts and could even lose all their money. And of course the fear that

this might happen blocks all activity. This is aleo a matter of the power

of the institute to control production because of the mineowner's interests
and various other things.

[Question] When will this end?

[Answer] As I said before, activities are scheduled to end this year, and most
people are of the opinion that everything can be brought to a conclusion next
year. Of course it would have been desirable to conclude these issues this
year. But if others want to discuss issues that are of little importance to
us for a while longer, then we might as well agree.

[Question] Ien't this all rather tiring and boring?

[Anewer] Perhaps it is a bit boring at times but we mustn't forget that it is
gratifying to participate in activities on which much progress has been made,
especially for us in Iceland, and thie is progress that can never be taken
away from us.

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USSR ACCEPTS 200-MILE DOME BEGULATIONS--The Sewlet Union hee dropped ite reserve:
tiene regarding the Borwegten decleton te esteblich « 200-neution| -eile economic
sone around jan Maven, Poreian Minteter Knut Prydenivued told NORSKE TELAEGRANBYR.
Frvdesivued sees Chie ae confirmation thet the egreement Norway reached with leel and
jest veer om the eetedi letment of the Cleherics sone wee Geceeeery and correct.

The Soviet @eclelon qpane thet Norwegian regulations cowering catches end other
activities to the economic sone end on the seabed will be reapected by the Sevier
Vnies. Ae far as Ciehing te concerned, quotes end regulations will be discussed by
the Norwegian-Soviet ‘‘sherles commission Which deale with euch questions a0 catches
in the Merente Ses (Text) [LDI8102) Osle APTENPOSTER in Norwegien 1) Jun 6)

p 26)

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