Miscellaneous Fisheries Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation...

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Page 336 - The high seas being open to all nations, no State may validly purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty.
Page 336 - These freedoms, and others which are recognized by the general principles of international law, shall be exercised by all States with reasonable regard to the interests of other States in their exercise of the freedom of the high seas.
Page 309 - The sovereignty of a State extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea adjacent to its coast, described as the territorial sea.
Page 234 - 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 150 - Fish and Wildlife Service. Department of the Interior, and with the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the particular State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed, with a view to the conservation of wildlife resources * * *. (16 USC 662(a) ) (See also Reorganization Plan No.
Page 268 - The rights of the coastal State over the continental shelf do not affect the legal status of the superjacent waters as high seas, or that of the airspace above those waters.
Page 268 - All States have the right for their nationals to engage in fishing on the high seas...
Page 309 - high seas" means all parts of the sea that are not included in the territorial sea or in the internal waters of a State.
Page 150 - States, or by any public or private agency under Federal permit or license, such department or agency first shall consult with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, and with the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the particular State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed, with a view to the conservation of wildlife resources by preventing loss of and damage to such resources as...
Page 38 - The values of the properties so exchanged either shall be approximately equal, or if they are not approximately equal, the values shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the circumstances require.

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