Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1963, Page 130

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Fiskimarkið
people are overwhelmingly dependent upon coastal fisheries for their
livelihood or economic development,
Having considered also the situation of countries whose coastal
population depends primarily on coastal fisheries for the animal protein
of its diet and whose fishing methods are mainly limited to local fishing
from small boats,
Recognizing that such situations call for exceptional measures be>
fitting particular needs,
Considering that, because of the limited scope and exceptional nature
of those situations, any measures adopted to meet them would be
complementary to provisions incorporated in a universal system of
international law,
Believing that States should collaborate to secure just treatment of
such situations by regional agreements or by other means of inter*
national co=operation,
Recommends:
1. That where, for the purpose of conservation, it becomes necessary
to limit the total catch of a stock or stocks of fish in an area of the
high seas adjacent to the territorial sea of a coastal State, any other
States fishing in that area should collaborate with the coastal State to
secure just treatment of such situation, by establishing agreed measures
which shall recognize any preferential requirements of the coastal State
resulting from its dependence upon the fishery concerned, while having
regard to the interests of the other States,
2. That appropriate conciliation and arbitral procedures shall be
established for the settlement of any disagreement.
SUMMARY
In the present paper is given a short survey of the history of fishery
limits, with special reference to the fishery limits of the Faeroe Islands.
The author then proceeds to discuss the validity under international
law of the new Faeroese fishery limit which came into force on March
12, 1964.
In the historical context a fundamental difference in the traditional
views held by the European countries on the coastal fisheries, is unders
lined. It is a welbknown fact that the coastal fisheries in Europe from
the middle ages up to the 17th century — when the concept of the