Emergency Marine Fisheries Protection Act of 1975: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 961 ... June 6[-September 19] 1975, Part 2

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Page 111 - The high seas being open to all nations, no State may validly purport to subject any part of them to its sovereignty.
Page 111 - Punish infringement of the above regulations committed within its territory or territorial sea. 2. The contiguous zone may not extend beyond twelve miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.
Page 294 - The general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
Page 111 - All States have the right for their nationals to engage in fishing on the high seas...
Page 111 - 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 300 - Act, is engaged in predominately within the fishery conservation zone and beyond such zone; and (B) any State has taken any action, or omitted to take any action, the results of which will substantially and adversely affect the carrying out of such fishery management plan; the Secretary shall promptly notify such...
Page 119 - Iceland's unilateral action thus constitutes an infringement of the principle enshrined in Article 2 of the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas which requires that all States, including coastal States, in exercising their freedom of fishing, pay reasonable regard to the interests of other States.
Page 294 - One fact for consideration in determining such limits is the extent of the diminution. When it reaches a certain magnitude, in most if not in all cases there must be an exercise of eminent domain and compensation to sustain the act.
Page 300 - Any person who is found by the Secretary, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with section 554 of title 5, United States Code, to have committed an act prohibited by section 307 shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty.
Page 298 - States, and, in the case of a corporation, unless its president or other chief executive officer and the chairman of its board of directors are citizens of the United States...

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