Alaska Salmon Fishery: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 8344. February 1 and 2, 1938U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 195 sider |
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3-mile limit Alaska Peninsula American fishermen animus revertendi asserted BELL Bering Sea bill boats BOWER Bristol Bay Bristol Bay area Britain British Bureau of Fisheries Captain XITCO CARLSON catch caught CHAIRMAN CHESTER CARLSON claim CLARK coast of Alaska committee Congress conservation continental shelf Court crabs CULKIN Delegation DIMOND distance enforcement extend fathoms fisheries of Alaska floating canneries foreign FRIELE gear GILBERT gill nets industry international law Islands Japan Japanese Government jurisdiction Kvichak Bay leagues legislation marginal seas municipal law offshore operations Pacific coast packers percent pink salmon port protection purposes purse purse seine question reason red salmon regulations rivers rule salmon fishing salmon packing salmon run seals Secretary of Commerce seizure ships shore Shumagin Islands SIROVICH spawning statement subsidy territorial sea territorial waters Territory of Alaska tion treaty Unimak Island United WALKER waters adjacent waters of Alaska
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Side 53 - 5. Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside the ordinary three-mile limit?
Side 44 - States in attaching to their coasts an extent into the sea, beyond the reach of cannon shot.a *30 "^Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be unreasonable, as I apprehend, to assume, for domestic purposes connected with our safety and welfare...
Side 64 - ... territory not exceeding two marine leagues in width at the mouth are within this limit ; and that included in this territorial jurisdiction is the right of control over fisheries, whether the fish be migratory, free-swimming fish, or free-moving fish, or fish attached to or embedded in the soil. The open sea within this limit is, of course, subject to the common right of navigation ; and all governments, for the purpose of self-protection in time of war or for the prevention of frauds on its...
Side 32 - All that can reasonably be asserted is, that the dominion of the sovereign of the shore over the contiguous sea extends as far as is requisite for his safety, and for some lawful end.
Side 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress...
Side 20 - I think it may be unequivocally affirmed, that every doctrine, that may be fairly deduced by correct reasoning from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligation, may theoretically be said to exist in the law of nations; and unless it be relaxed or waived by the consent of nations, which may be evidenced by their general practice and customs, it may be enforced by a court of justice, whenever it arises in judgment...
Side 53 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Side 45 - In case of bays the three marine miles are to be measured from a straight line drawn across the body of water at the place where it ceases to have the configuration and characteristics of a bay. At all other places the three marine miles are to be measured following the sinuosities of the coast.
Side 32 - ... use all necessary force to compel compliance, and if it shall appear that any breach or violation of the laws of the United States...
Side 39 - The high contracting parties declare that it is their firm intention to uphold the principle that three marine miles extending from the coastline outwards and measured from low-water mark constitute the proper limits of territorial waters.