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Every State shall adopt the laws and regulations necessary to provide that, if persons subject to its jurisdiction who are the owners of a submarine cable or pipeline beneath the high seas, in laying or repairing that cable or pipeline, cause a break in or injury to another cable or pipeline, they shall bear the cost of the repairs.

Every State shall adopt the laws and regulations necessary to ensure that the owners of ships who can prove that they have sacrificed an anchor, a net or any other fishing gear, in order to avoid injuring a submarine cable or pipeline, shall be indemnified by the owner of the cable or pipeline, provided that the owner of the ship has taken all reasonable precautionary measures beforehand.

All States have the right for their nationals to engage in fishing on the high seas subject to:
 * (a) their treaty obligations;
 * (b) the rights and duties as well as the interest of coastal States provided for, inter alia, in article 63, paragraph 2, and articles 64 and 67; and
 * (c) the provisions of this section.

All States have the duty to take, or to cooperate with other States in taking, such measures for their respective nationals as may be necessary for the conservation of the living resources of the high seas.

States shall cooperate with each other in the conservation and management of living resources in the area of the high seas. States whose nationals exploit identical living resources, or different living resources in the same area, shall enter into negotiations with a view to taking the measures necessary for the conversation of the living resources concerned. They shall,