HC Deb 22 August 1839 vol 50 c489
Viscount Palmerston

having laid papers on the Table relative to the state of affairs between Mehemet Ali and the Porte, wished to say that a convention had been entered into between England and France, to settle all disputes relative to the fisheries, which had created so much anxiety to both countries. It was important to explain, that the individuals of each country would, have the right of fishing within three miles of low-water mark, the boundary linebetween the two kingdoms; and commissioners had also been appointed for making regulations respecting trollers with the long line, when they should meet on the sea between the two countries, and beyond the three miles line of either coast. The commissioners were to draw up regulations to be approved by each Government, by whom they were respectively to receive the force of law. As the Session was drawing to a close, and it was likely that the commissioners would conclude their labours before Parliament met again, it was desirable to obtain from Parliament a temporary power to give effect to those regulations in the meantime, by an Order in Council approving of such regulations as might be agreed on by the commissioners.