1 Great Britain, Treaty Series, No. 25 (1961), Cmnd. 1352. Ratifications were exchanged on March 3, 1961. This agreement is one of several recently concluded by Great Britain with respect to British fisheries in the territorial seas claimed by foreign states.

In an exchange of notes signed at Copenhagen on April 27, 1959, modifying the Convention of June 24, 1901, as later amended, concerning the Regulation of Pishing around the Faroe Islands (Great Britain, Treaty Series, No. 55 (1959), Cmnd. 776),Great Britain and Denmark agreed that British fishermen might be excluded from the area defined by a line drawn generally six miles from low-water mark along the coast of the Faroe Islands, but that they might continue, by reason of the fisheries historically exercised, to fish in the waters lying between that line and a line drawn twelve miles from low-water mark along the coast of the Islands. The lines were laid out on an annexed map. The parties agreed that the Agreement would be without prejudice to their views on the delimitation of territorial waters. Concerning this agreement and its background, see Lauterpacht, Contemporary Practice of the United Kingdom in the Field of International Law—Survey and Comment, 8 Int. and Comp. Law Q. 171 (1959), and 9 ibid. 277 (1960).

The fisheries dispute between Great Britain and Iceland arising out of the latter country's claim to a territorial sea belt of twelve miles measured from straight base lines was resolved by an exchange of notes signed at Reykjavik on March 11, 1961 (Great Britain, Treaty Series, No. 17 (1961), Cmnd. 1328), whereby Great Britain agreed that it would “ n o longer object to a twelve-mile fishery zone around Iceland” and Iceland agreed to allow British fishing vessels to fish for a period of three years in certain portions of the outer six miles of the twelve-mile fishery zone at certain specified times.

2 The Annexes, not reproduced here, consist of “Rules for the Eegulation of the Fisheries” and “Eeserved Line and Gill Net Fishing Areas.”