THE FISHERY INTERESTS OF AUSTRIA. 671 



Such treaties make it necessary that the fishing-laws of the several 

 countries should accord with all the points touched in the treaties. 



We give below the full text of the treaty between Baden and Switzer- 

 land, relating to the fisheries in the Ehine, including the Unter Lake, (a 

 portion of the Lake of Constance.) This treaty is based on scientific 

 principles, and on the experience of countries where strict fishing-laws 

 have been successfully in force for some time. 



" For the protection and increase of the valuable kinds of fish in the 

 Ehine, including the Unter Lake and its tributaries, between Constance 

 and Basle, the government of Baden and the federal council of Switzer- 

 land have resolved to draw up uniform rules for the fisheries in these 

 waters, and have, for this purpose, appointed the following delegates : 

 His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden, his Privy-Counselor in 

 the Ministry of Commerce, Dr. Eudolph Dietz ; the Federal Council of the 

 Swiss Confederation, the Federal Counselor, Dr. Karl Schenk : between 

 whom, after their credentials had been found to be correct, the follow- 

 ing treaty, waiting a future ratification, was drawn up : 



"Article 1. In the Ehine fisheries, including those of the Unter 

 Lake and its tributaries, between Constance and Basle all stationary 

 apparatus (fish-weirs) and the use of stationary nets, which at the com- 

 mon low- water mark on a line drawn at right angles from the bank 

 obstructs more than one-half of the breadth of the river, thus hindering 

 the migration of fish, are prohibited. 'This prohibition only applies to 

 those waters which* contain salmon. The distance between the several 

 poles forming the fish-weir intended to catch salmon, as well as the 

 distance between the connecting cross-poles, must be at least 10 centime- 

 ters, (1 centimeter=0.39 inch.) If several such stationary apparatus, or 

 several stationary nets, are set at the same time, near one and the same 

 bank, or on the opposite bank, they must be placed at a distance from 

 each other amounting to at least twice that of the largest apparatus. 



"Article 2. No fishing-implements of any kind or name must be 

 used, if, when moist, their openings do not have the following dimen- 

 sions: a, for salmon-fishing, — bow-nets, centimeters, inside 4 centime- 

 ters; &, for catching other large fish, — 3 centimeters; c, for catching 

 small fish, — 1^ centimeters. Implements used in taking fish for bait are 

 not subject to these regulations. 



" In the Ehine between SchaffLiausen and Basle no nets are to be used 

 whose openings are larger than 3 centimeters. 



"In regulating nets and other implements, the difference of one-tenth 

 centimeter shall not be counted. 



"Article 3. Floating nets must not be placed in such a manner as to 

 stick to the bottom or remain attached to anything. 



"Article 4. All means employed to stun fish, as well as the use of 

 traps with springs, spears, guns, or pistols, explosive cartridges, poles, 

 and other contrivances tending to wound the fish, are forbidden. 



