(_e_) If a vessel when fishing with a trawl, dredge, or any kind of
dragnet becomes stationary in consequence of her gear getting fast to a
rock or other obstruction, she shall show the light and make the fog
signal for a vessel at anchor.

(_f_) Fishing vessels and open boats may at any time use a flare-up
in addition to the lights which they are by this article required to
carry and show. All flare-up lights exhibited by a vessel when trawling,
dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnet shall be shown at the
after part of the vessel, excepting that if the vessel is hanging by the
stern to her trawl, dredge, or dragnet they shall be exhibited from the
bow.

(_g_) Every fishing vessel and every open boat when at anchor
between sunset and sunrise shall exhibit a white light visible all round
the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile.

(_h_) In a fog a drift-net vessel attached to her nets, and a
vessel when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnet, and
a vessel employed in line fishing with her lines out shall at intervals
of not more than two minutes make a blast with her fog horn and ring her
bell alternately.

And whereas an act of Congress entitled "An act to postpone the
enforcement of the act of August 19, 1890, entitled 'An act to adopt
regulations for preventing collisions at sea,'" was approved February
23, 1895, the said act being in the following words:

Whereas the President, in accordance with the proposition of Great
Britain to enforce on March 1, 1895, the "Revised international
regulations for preventing collisions at sea," and on the
representations of that Government that those regulations had received
the general approval of the several foreign maritime powers, pursuant
to section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, entitled "An act to adopt
regulations for preventing collisions at sea," issued on July 13,
1894, his proclamation[41] fixing March 1, 1895, as the time when the
provisions of said act, as amended, embodying said revised international
regulations, shall take effect; and

Whereas the Government of Great Britain has withdrawn from the position
communicated to this Government on April 25, 1894, that no time should
be lost in carrying those regulations into effect, and on January 16,
1895, announced to this Government that the Government of Great Britain
now finds it impossible until Parliament has