Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That article 10 of the act approved March 3, 1885, entitled “An act to adopt the ’Revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea,’” so far as said article relates to lights for fishing vessels, is hereby reenacted and continued in force, anything in the act approved May 28, 1894, entitled “An act to amend an act approved August 19, 1890, entitled ‘An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,’” to the contrary notwithstanding.

And whereas the said article of the act approved March 3, 1885, entitled “An act to adopt the ’Revised international regulations for preventing collisions at sea,’” reenacted by the said act of August 13, 1894, is as follows: 

ART. 10.  Open boats and fishing vessels of less than 20 tons net registered tonnage when under way and when not having their nets, trawls, dredges, or lines in the water shall not be obliged to carry the colored side lights; but every such boat and vessel shall in lieu thereof have ready at hand a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other side, and on approaching to or being approached by another vessel such lantern shall be exhibited, in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.

  The following portion of this article applies only to fishing vessels
  and boats when in the sea off the coast of Europe lying north of Cape
  Finisterre: 

(a) All fishing vessels and fishing boats of 20 tons net registered tonnage or upward when under way and when not having their nets, trawls, dredges, or lines in the water shall carry and show the same lights as other vessels under way.

(b) All vessels when engaged in fishing with drift nets shall exhibit two white lights from any part of the vessel where they can be best seen.  Such lights shall be placed so that the vertical distance between them shall be not less than 6 feet and not more than 10 feet and so that the horizontal distance between them measured in a line with the keel of the vessel shall be not less than 5 feet and not more than 10 feet.  The lower of these two lights shall be the more forward, and both of them shall be of such a character and contained in lanterns of such construction as to show all round the horizon on a dark night with a clear atmosphere for a distance of not less than 3 miles.

(c) All vessels when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of dragnets shall exhibit from some part of the vessel where they can be best seen two lights.  One of these lights shall be red and the other shall be white.  The red light shall be above the white light and shall be at a vertical distance from it of not less than