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CASE #7
G.R. No.
Title: United Kingdom vs. Norway
January 18 1951
Facts:
On September 28th, 1949, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland filed in the Registry an Application instituting proceedings before the Court against the
Kingdom of Norway, the proceedings questions the validity, under international law, of the lines of
delimitation of the Norwegian fisheries zone laid down by the Royal Decree of July 12th, 1935 for
that part of Norway.
"(a) to declare the principles of international law to be applied in defining the base-lines, by
reference to which the Norwegian Government is entitled to delimit a fisheries zone, extending to
seaward 4 sea miles from those lines and exclusively reserved for its own nationals, and to define
the said base-lines in so far as it appears necessary.
(b) to award damages to the Government of the United Kingdom in respect of all interferences by
the Norwegian authorities with British; fishing vessels outside the zone.
The historical dispute can be traced down to the fact that 1911 British trawlers had been seized and
condemned for violating measures taken by the Norwegian government specifying the limits within
which fishing was prohibited to foreigners. In 1935, a decree was adopted establishing the lines of
delimitation of the Norwegian fisheries zone.