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[Title] Annex, Agreement on Fisheries between Japan and the Republic of Korea.

[Place] Tokyo
[Date] June 22, 1965
[Source] United Nations Treaty Collection
[Notes] Quote from the United Nations Treaty Collection: "Translation by the Government of Japan. The Secretariat also received an English translation of this agreement from the Government of Republic of Korea which on certain points differs from that provided by the Government of Japan. At the request of the Government of Republic of Korea, these differences have been shown by printing in italics the pertinent word of phrase in the translation of the Government of Japan and providing in square brackets the corresponding expression in the translation by the Government of the Republic of Korea."
[Full text]

The provisional regulation measures for fisheries provided for in Article 3 of the present Agreement shall apply to each of the two Contracting Parties and shall be as follows:

1. The maximum number of fishing vessels or fishing units in operation (that is, the maximum number of fishing vessels or units operating at a given time within the joint regulation zone, holding licences and bearing identification markings for fishing operation within the said zone):

(a) For drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of less than 50 tons, 115 vessels.

(b) For drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 50 tons

(i) 270 vessels during the period November 1 to April 30 of the following year,

(ii) 100 vessels during the period May 1 to October 31.

(c) For seine fishing

(i) 60 fishing units during the period January 16 to May 15,

(ii) 120 fishing units during the period May 16 to January 15 of the following year.

(d) For mackerel-angling fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 60 tons, 15 vessels; provided that the period for fishing operation shall be from June 1 to December 31, and that the fishing operation zone shall be the waters south of the straight line connecting the point where the border-line between Kyongsang-pukto and Kyongsang-namdo of the Republic of Korea intersects the coastal line and the intersection of 35° 30' North Latitude and 130° East Longitude (however, on the western side of the Chejudo, south of 33° 30' North Latitude).

(e) While there exists a difference in fish-catching capability between fishing vessels of Japan and of the Republic of Korea, the number of fishing vessels or units in operation of the Republic of Korea shall be adjusted through consultation between the Governments of the two Contracting Parties, with the maximum number of fishing vessels or units in operation provided for in the present Agreement as a standard and paying regard [due regard] to such difference.

2. Size of fishing vessels:

(a) For drag-net fishing

(i) not less than 30 tons and not more than 170 tons except for trawl fishing,

(ii) not less than 100 tons and not more than 550 tons for trawl fishing.

However, drag-net fishing by vessels of not less than 50 tons (except drag-net fishing for prawn in the Japan Sea by vessels of less than 60 tons, which has been permitted by the Republic of Korea) shall not be conducted in waters east of 128° East Longitude.

(b) For seine fishing, not less than 40 tons and not more than 100 tons for seine vessels.

However, the one seine fishing vessel of not less than 100 tons which exists in Japan on the date of the signing of the present Agreement shall be permitted as an exception for the time being.

(c) For mackerel-angling fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 60 tons, not more than 100 tons.

3. Mesh size (inner diameter when in sea water):

(a) For drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of less than 50 tons, not less than 33 millimeters.

(b) For drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 50 tons, not less than 54 millimeters.

(c) For the main net for horse mackerel or mackerel of seine fishing, not less than 30 millimeters at its main part.

4. Power of fish-luring lights (total installation capacity of generators):

(a) For seine fishing, two light-ships of not more than 10 kilowatts each and one light-ship of not more than 7.5 kilowatts, totalling not more than 27.5 kilowatts, per fishing unit.

(b) For mackerel-angling fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 60 tons, not more than 10 kilowatts.

5. Licences and identification markings:

(a) Fishing vessels operating in the joint regulation zone shall hold licences and shall bear identification markings, issued by the respective Governments. However, with respect to fishing vessels engaging in seine fishing, fishing vessels other than seine vessels are not required to hold licences, and seine vessels shall display principal markings while vessels other than seine vessels shall bear submarkings which correspond with principal markings.

(b) The total number of licences and of identification markings (with respect to fishing vessels engaging in drag-net fishing and mackerel-angling fishing, two markings borne by each fishing vessel shall be counted as one, and with respect to fishing vessels engaging in seine fishing, two principal markings borne by each seine vessel shall be counted as one) shall be, for each fishery subject to the provisional regulation measures for fisheries, the same as the maximum number of fishing vessels and units in operation for such fishery. However, in view of the realities of fisheries, the number of issuance may be increased over the maximum number of fishing vessels in operation by 15 percent with respect to drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of not less than 50 tons and by 20 percent with respect to drag-net fishing by fishing vessels of less than 50 tons.

(c) The form of identification markings and the place where they shall be borne shall be determined upon consultations between the Governments of the two Contracting Parties.