Alaskan Salmon Fishery: Hearings...on H.R. 8344...Feb. 1 & 2, 19381938 - 195 pages |
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... claim for the value of the salmon so taken or packed and the damages occasioned thereby shall be presented by the Government of the United States to the Government of such other nation , and in event of nonpayment thereof the Government ...
... claim for the value of the salmon so taken or packed and the damages occasioned thereby shall be presented by the Government of the United States to the Government of such other nation , and in event of nonpayment thereof the Government ...
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... claim they have the right , by international law— which I challenge , and deny - to intercept salmon beyond 3 miles from shore , and to take all the salmon in Bering Sea , even if it results in a complete exhaustion of the species . Mr ...
... claim they have the right , by international law— which I challenge , and deny - to intercept salmon beyond 3 miles from shore , and to take all the salmon in Bering Sea , even if it results in a complete exhaustion of the species . Mr ...
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... claim it as our property , no matter who may catch it . May this not hold true in the similar case , when the salmon has grown up in the open sea and is caught there by other nationalities , regardless of whether or not it was spawned ...
... claim it as our property , no matter who may catch it . May this not hold true in the similar case , when the salmon has grown up in the open sea and is caught there by other nationalities , regardless of whether or not it was spawned ...
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... tion ) in which the claim of the Japanese of their intent to take all or any fish which they might be able to catch in Bristol Bay was boldly asserted and they called upon their readers to consider Bering 16 ALASKA SALMON FISHERY.
... tion ) in which the claim of the Japanese of their intent to take all or any fish which they might be able to catch in Bristol Bay was boldly asserted and they called upon their readers to consider Bering 16 ALASKA SALMON FISHERY.
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... claim to be operating beyond the jurisdiction , not only of the laws of the United States but of the laws of all other nations , save and except as to the operation of Japanese law upon Japanese shipping . So the only rational ...
... claim to be operating beyond the jurisdiction , not only of the laws of the United States but of the laws of all other nations , save and except as to the operation of Japanese law upon Japanese shipping . So the only rational ...
Common terms and phrases
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 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 Senator shore Shumagin Islands Siberia SIROVICH spawning statement subsidy territorial sea territorial waters Territory of Alaska tion treaty Ugashik River Unimak Island United WALKER waters adjacent waters of Alaska
Popular passages
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 28 - The territorial waters of Her Majesty's dominions," in reference to the sea, means such part of the sea adjacent to the coast of the United Kingdom, or the coast of some other part of Her Majesty's dominions...
Page 64 - ... that bays' wholly within its 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.
Page 64 - October 6, 1922, the Attorney General, in answer to an inquiry by the Secretary of the Treasury, gave an opinion to the effect that the National Prohibition Act, construed in connection with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, makes it unlawful (a) for any ship, whether domestic or foreign, to bring into territorial waters of the United States, or to carry while within such waters, intoxicating liquors intended for beverage purposes, whether as sea stores or cargo, and...