Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The fisheries

Collection:: Economics Books

The Icelandic Association for the Promotion of the Fishing Trade (Fiskifélag Islands) was established in 1911 with a view to encourag- ing salt and fresh water fisheries. This association, in its various activities for the benefit of the fishing industry, represents the govern- ment and receives an annual State grant, which at present amounts to 75000 krénur. At the close of 1927 it had a membership of 1500 distributed among 45 local associations. In all matters coming within the purview of the Association the highest authority is vested in the Fishers’ Council, consisting of 12 members elected for a term of four years and meeting annually in Reykjavik. Besides, ‘Fjérdungs things’, or quarter meetings, one for each quarter of the country, are held every second year by the representatives of the local associations. The Fishers’ Council elect the president of the Association and two directors for two years. It has an office in Reykjavik, publishes a monthly and gives short courses in navigation and the handling and operating of motors. MARITIME JURISDICTION The Maritime Jurisdiction of Iceland, so far as the fisheries are concerned, is fixed by a treaty made between Denmark and Great Britain on the 28th of March 1903 respecting the prosecution of fish- ing outside the territorial waters round Iceland and The Faroe Islands. According to § 2 of this treaty, Iceland’s territorial waters round the whole coast of the island extend three nautical miles from the most outlying islets and rocks visible at low water. In bays the three quarter- miles’ limit is reckoned from a straight line drawn across the bay as near its entrance as possible, at the first point where its width does not exceed ten nautical miles. The Maritime Jurisdiction is chiefly of importance for the fishing and the fishermen’s operations in territorial waters. The main body of laws respecting fishing in Icelandic territorial waters is comprised in Act No. 33 of June 19th 1923, cp. also Act No. 4 of May 4th 1925 by which various older provisions respecting this matter, are repealed; cp. also Act No. 5 of May 18th 1920, prohibiting fishing by means of trawl. Besides, there are to be found in various other acts provisions deal- ing with the utilization of the territorial waters. Further, there have, m accordance with the above-mentioned acts, been issued regulations concerning certain coastal waters. At present the government has two patrol boats to protect the territorial waters of the country.

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