Provisional U.S. Charts Delimiting Alaskan Territorial Boundaries: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ... |
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... Canadian fishing vessel at approximate position A on attached chart . The loca- tion of the sighting was approximately here , near the southern entrance of Chatham Strait , more than three miles offshore . Balder reported the position ...
... Canadian fishing vessel at approximate position A on attached chart . The loca- tion of the sighting was approximately here , near the southern entrance of Chatham Strait , more than three miles offshore . Balder reported the position ...
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... Canadian - and Na- tional Marine Fisheries Service representatives attended . Fishermen were shown the current policy on territorial waters , and told that a new policy would be forthcoming soon . The old policy showed Chatham Strait to ...
... Canadian - and Na- tional Marine Fisheries Service representatives attended . Fishermen were shown the current policy on territorial waters , and told that a new policy would be forthcoming soon . The old policy showed Chatham Strait to ...
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... Canadians did not in any sig- nificant manner protest the lines which are on these charts . Without putting them on the wall , I will lay them on this table for the com- mittee . Here is the line as it goes from the southern boundary of ...
... Canadians did not in any sig- nificant manner protest the lines which are on these charts . Without putting them on the wall , I will lay them on this table for the com- mittee . Here is the line as it goes from the southern boundary of ...
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... Canadian halibut and blackcod fishermen into areas currently in use by resident and native smallboat fisheries . ( 5 ) Encourage development by non - resident U.S. fishermen , for example , Seattle fishermen , of salmon , crab and other ...
... Canadian halibut and blackcod fishermen into areas currently in use by resident and native smallboat fisheries . ( 5 ) Encourage development by non - resident U.S. fishermen , for example , Seattle fishermen , of salmon , crab and other ...
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... Canadian fishermen could troll for salmon where U.S. fishermen are currently restricted from doing so . Such a result would be disastrous to the salmon management capability of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game . This follows since ...
... Canadian fishermen could troll for salmon where U.S. fishermen are currently restricted from doing so . Such a result would be disastrous to the salmon management capability of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game . This follows since ...
Common terms and phrases
3-mile limit Alaska Department Alaska Peninsula Aleutian Alexander Archipelago America applied Article baseline charts Bering Sea boundary Bristol Bay Britain Canadian Cape Chairman Chatham Strait claim coastal Commercial Fisheries committee concerned CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contiguous zone continental shelf Convention Cook Inlet CRANSTON Department of Fish economic enforcement established Federal Government Fish and Game Fish and Wildlife fisheries fishermen foreign fishing foreign vessel geographic Gulf Gulf of Alaska halibut headland to headland hearing HICKOK high seas historic bays inland waters internal waters issue Japanese jurisdiction Kodiak Island LIBRARY OF CONGRESS mainland ment natural resources NELSON Noerenberg North Norway Ocean officers position present problem protection provisional baseline provisional charts question regulations Russian Russian-American Company Senator INOUYE Senator STEVENS Shelikof Strait ships Shumagin Islands Southeast Alaska Southeastern Alaska sovereignty State's straight baseline concept territorial sea territorial waters Tillion tion Ukase waters of Alaska WEBERG Wildlife Service
Popular passages
Page 109 - In localities where the coastline is deeply indented and cut into, or if there is a fringe of islands along the coast in its immediate vicinity, the method of straight baselines joining appropriate points may be employed in drawing the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.
Page 172 - For the purpose of these articles, the term "continental shelf" is used as referring (a) to the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast but outside the area of the territorial sea, to a depth of 200 metres or, beyond that limit, to where the depth of the superjacent waters admits of the exploitation of the natural resources of the said areas; (b) to the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent...
Page 112 - The drawing of such baselines must not depart to any appreciable extent from the general direction of the coast...
Page 99 - Urup, viz : to the 45° 50' northern latitude, is exclusively granted to Russian subjects. SEC. 2. It is therefore prohibited to all foreign vessels, not only to land on the coasts and islands belonging to Russia, as stated above, but also to approach them within less than an hundred Italian miles. The transgressor's vessel is subject to confiscation, along with the whole cargo.
Page 187 - ... 4. Where the method of straight baselines is applicable under the provisions of paragraph 1, account may be taken in determining particular baselines, of economic interests peculiar to the region concerned, the reality and the importance of which are clearly evidenced by a long usage.
Page 148 - Nesselrode, actual Privy Counsellor, Member of the Council of State, Secretary of State directing the administration of Foreign Affairs, actual Chamberlain, Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, Grand Cross of the Order of St.
Page 56 - Finally, there is one consideration not to be overlooked, the scope of which extends beyond purely geographical factors : that of certain economic interests peculiar to a region, the reality and importance of which are clearly evidenced by a long usage.
Page 101 - The United States can admit no part of these claims. Their right of Navigation and of Fishing is perfect and has been in constant exercise from the earliest times after the Peace of 1783, throughout the whole extent of the Southern Ocean, subject only to the ordinary exceptions and exclusions of the territorial Jurisdictions, which so far as Russian rights are concerned, are confined to certain Islands, North of the 55th.
Page 91 - Straight baselines shall not be drawn to and from low-tide elevations, unless lighthouses or similar installations which are permanently above sea level have been built on them or except in instances where the drawing of baselines to and from such elevations has received general international recognition.
Page 148 - Russias, wishing to cement the bonds of amity which unite them, and to secure between them the invariable maintenance of a perfect concord, by means of the present Convention, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to this effect, to wit: The President of the United States of America, Henry Middleton, a citizen of said States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Imperial Majesty; and His Majesty the Emperor...