Three miles insufficient for the regulation of the fisheries--Seal fisheries--Behring Sea arbitration--Oyster, pearl-oyster, and coral fisheries--Regulations for “floating” fish--Relation of trawl-fishing to three-mile limit--Recent great extension of trawling--The effect on the fishing-grounds--Official inquiries--English trawlers desire an increased limit in North Sea--International conference at London, 1890--Inquiry by select committee of House of Commons--They recommend international extension of present limit for fishery purposes--Immature Fish Bill--Its object--Parliamentary inquiry, 1900--They urge international arrangement for North Sea--Bill again introduced--Inquiry by committee of House of Lords, 1904--They recommend international agreement for North Sea--The impoverishment of the fishing-grounds in the North Sea--Trawlers flock to foreign coasts--Feeling among foreign fishermen--Legislation in various countries regulating trawling beyond the three-mile limit--Norway, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria--Ireland--Not restricted to bays--Scotland--Fishery Acts--Firth of Clyde--Moray Firth--Act of 1895 empowering a thirteen-mile limit--Intrusion of foreign and pseudo-Norwegian trawlers into Moray Firth--Prosecutions and convictions--Case of Peters _versus_ Olsen--Case of Mortensen _versus_ Peters--Decision of the Scottish High Court of Justiciary--Opinions of the judges--Intervention of Norwegian Government--Release of offenders--Foreign Office decline to open negotiations with foreign Powers--Debates in Parliament--Lord Fitzmaurice on territorial limit and bays--Opinions of Lord Halsbury, Lord Herschell, Lord Salisbury, Lord Chancellor Loreburn--Declarations of Sir Edward Grey, Minister for Foreign Affairs--Views of British Government--Previous action of Great Britain in connection with extra-territorial fisheries--Recent proceedings with foreign Powers regarding the three-mile limit--The international fishery investigations--Need of an international arrangement 693 APPENDIX. _A._ The Libel regarding Reyner Grimbald. De Superioritate Maris Angliæ et Jure officii Admirallatus in eodem 741 _B._ Abstract of Proceedings before the Auditors regarding the same 744 _C._ License for Fishing at the “Zowe” Bank in the Channel, 1615 749 _D._ Proclamation of James I. relative to the King’s Chambers, 1st March 1604/1605 750 _E._ Declaration of the Jury of the Trinity House as to the Limits of the King’s Chambers, 4th March 1604/1605 753 _F._ Proclamation of James I. for the Restraint of Foreigners fishing on the British Coasts, 6th May 1609 755