COLREGS - International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

file://C:\Documents and Settings\M.Ventura\Local Settings\Temp\~hhA077.htmPage 38 of 742009-09-22Copyright 2005 Lloyd's Register or International Maritime Organization. All rights reserved. Lloyd's Register, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respectiveofficers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as the 'Lloyd's Register Group'. The Lloyd's Register Group assumes noresponsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document orhowsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Lloyd's Register Group entity for the provision of this information or advice and inthat case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.Lloyd’s Register Rulefinder 2005 – Version 9.4COLREGS - International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea - International Regulations for preventingCollisions at Sea, 1972 - Rule 26 Fishing vesselsRule 26Fishing vessels(a). A vessel engaged in fishing, whether underway or at anchor, shall exhibit only the lights and shapes prescribed inthis Rule.(b). A vessel when engaged in trawling, by which is meant the dragging through the water of a dredge net or otherapparatus used as a fishing appliance, shall exhibit:(i). two all-round lights in a vertical line, the upper being green and the lower white, or a shape consisting of two coneswith their apexes together in a vertical line one above the other;(ii). a masthead light abaft of and higher than the all-round green light; a vessel of less than 50 metres in length shallnot be obliged to exhibit such a light but may do so;(iii). when making way through the water, in addition to the lights prescribed in this paragraph, sidelights and asternlight.(c). A vessel engaged in fishing, other than trawling shall exhibit:(i). two all-round lights in a vertical line, the upper being red and the lower white, or a shape consisting of two coneswith apexes together in a vertical line one above the other;(ii). when there is outlying gear extending more than 150 metres horizontally from the vessel, an all-round white light ora cone apex upwards in the direction of the gear;(iii). when making way through the water, in addition to the lights prescribed in this paragraph, sidelights and asternlight.