Proclamation dated March 9, 1977 Establishing a Fisheries Zone Contiguous to the Territorial Sea of the Virgin Islands (S.R.O. 4/1977)

PROC[AMAT!ON DA.TED \!ARCH 9, J97i EST..\.BLlSHING A FISHERIES zo:,E co:,T!GliOliS TO THE TERRITORL-\L SEA OF THE VIRGIN ISL'l..'iDS. 1. Th~re is escabiished for the Virgin Islands a fisheries zone contiguous :o the terriwrial sea of the Virgin Islands. 2. The said fisheries zone h2.S as its inner boundary the outer limits of lhe terntorial sea of the Vitgin Islands and as its se.i.wo.rd. boundo.rY n. ii:1e ciru;·m ~o that each point on the line is twc hundred nautical miiesfrom the nearest point on the low­ \.'.3.ter line 0:1 th~ coast or other b~eline from which the cerricoria.1 sea is measured or, unless ano cher line is de dared by Proclamation, the median line whe!"e this is li:ss than 200 nautical miles from che baseline. The median line is a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest pomcs or' thC baseline of the 1/irgin Islands and the corresponding baselines of other countries or cerritories. 0 ;). £-:£er Majesty will exercise th.e same jurisdiction in respect of fisheries in the said fisheries zone as She has in respect of fisheries in the territorial waters of the Virgin Islands sub)ett t0 <:,\!.ch priy,/1::,\on::, :1:::, ma.y he:e:after be maC.e b'y law for the control and regulation of fishing within the said zone.