The Paris convention on submarine cables is signed

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1. Story
2. Representatives of the principal cable-owning and maritime states signed the Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables at Paris. It obliged parties to criminalise wilful or negligent damage to cables, required cable ships to display distinguishing signals and other vessels to keep clear, set distances for fishing gear, and provided indemnity for gear sacrificed to avoid damaging a cable. It entered into force on 1 May 1888 and, through an automatic renewal clause, has never lapsed.
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4. The Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables
5. The Paris convention on submarine cables is signed
6. Connections
7. The Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables
8. The submarine fibre-optic cable
9. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
10. The Paris convention on submarine cables is signed
11. Evidence
12. Supports the signature and entry-into-force dates, the substance of the criminal-liability, signalling, fishing-distance and gear-indemnity provisions, the automatic renewal mechanism and the report that the convention remains in force for 36 states parties. V55 verification basis: NOT opened; the provisions are summarised from retrieved descriptions of the text, including the NOAA general counsel explanation, and nothing is quoted. The 36-party figure was not checked against a depositary list.