Drying - meaning and illustration

1. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 47, paragraph 1:

" An archipelagic State may draw straight archipelagic baselines joining the outermost points of the outermost islands and drying reefs of the archipelago provided that within such baselines are included the main islands and an area in which the ratio of the area of the water to the area of the land, including atolls, is between 1 to 1 and 9 to 1. "

2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 47, paragraph 7:

" For the purpose of computing the ratio of water to land under paragraph l, land areas may include waters lying within the fringing reefs of islands and atolls, including that part of a steep-sided oceanic plateau which is enclosed or nearly enclosed by a chain of limestone islands and drying reefs lying on the perimeter of the plateau. "

3. Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon, Chapter I, article 113, paragraph 1:

" Within the meaning of the present law: 1) Fish processing establishments shall comprise: a) Fishmongering establishments which prepare fishery products, especially by sorting, washing, weighing and icing. b) Freezing establishments which preserve fish by means of freezing or simply store frozen products. c)Smoking houses or workshops which smoke fish and fishery products using wood or by-products of wood. d) Drying workshops which dehydrate fishery products through the direct action of heat produced by solar energy or some other source. e) Salting workshops which process fishery products by using exclusively sea salt or its substitutes. "

4. Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon, Chapter V, article 134, paragraph 1:

" The setting-up of a fishmonger's shop, a frozen products plant, a processing plant (for smoking, drying or salting), a canning factory or a fish shop sha11 be subject to the obtention of a certificate issued in accordance with conditions to be determined by decree. (2) "