§ 7. Mr. Awberyasked the Lord Privy Seal what criterion Her Majesty's Government used in determining the 12-mile fishing limit; to what extent it will be co-terminous with territorial waters; how many nations have now increased their fishing limits to more than three miles; and what was the prime cause in the breakdown of the negotiations to establish uniformity of fishing limits.
§ Mr. P. ThomasHer Majesty's Government have not determined a twelve-mile fishery limit.
Three countries (Iceland, Denmark and Norway) in the waters adjacent to whose coasts we fish have extended their fishing limits since the 1958 Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea.
The prime cause of the failure of the 1960 Geneva Conference to achieve agreement an a multilateral Convention for the Territorial Sea and Fishery Limits was the absence of an adequate majority for any proposal before the Conference.