106 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



AMERICAN-CANADIAN FISHERIES CONFERENCE. 



In 1917 a joint commission, known as the American-Canadian 

 Fisheries Conference, was appointed to take evidence and see if it 

 were possible to compose the fishery disputes which had affected the 

 good relations of the two countries for over 150 years. The com- 

 mission was composed, for America, of William C. Redfield, Secretary 

 of Commerce ; Edwin F. Sweet, assistant Secretary of Commerce ; and 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner of Fisheries ; and for Canada, of 

 J. Douglas Hazen, Chief Justice of New Brunswick, who had been 

 for six years Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada; George G. 

 Dcsbarats, deputv Minister Naval Service; and William A. Found, 

 Superintendent of Fisheries. 



Hearings were held on the Atlantic coast in 1917 and on the 

 Pacific coast in 1918, and in 1919 the commission agreed upon and 

 presmited to their respective Governments several treaties concern- 

 ing these matters, the only one of special interest here being the 

 treaty covering the sockeye fisheries of the Fraser River-Puget 

 Sound, which was signed on September 2, 1919. Owing to its 

 importance this treaty is reproduced entire below: 



CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION, AND PROPA- 

 GATION OF SALMON. 



The United States of America, and His Majesty George V, of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, 

 Emperor of India, equally recognizing the desirability of uniform and effective 

 measures for the protection, preservation, and propagation of the salmon fisheries in 

 the waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and in the 

 Fraser River System, have resob.ed to conclude a convention for this pur])ose, and 

 have named as their Plenipotentiaries: 



The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Robert Lansing, 

 Secretary of State of the United States of America, and 



His Britannic Majesty, the Honorable Ronald Lindsay, his charge d'affaires at 

 Washington, and the Honorable Sir John Douglas Ilazen, a Knight Commander of the 

 Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Chief Justice of New Bruns- 

 wick, and a mem1)er of his Privy Council for Canada. 



Who, having exhibited their full powers, found to be in due form, have agreed to 

 and signed the following articles: 



Article I. 



The times, seasons, and methods of sockeye-salmon fishing in the waters specified 

 in Article III of this Convention, and the nets, engines, gear, apparatus, and appli- 

 ances which may be used therein, shall be limited to those which are specified in the 

 regulations appended hereto, and/or which may be specified in revised, modified, 

 or substituted regulations provided for in Article VI and promulgated in accordance 

 with the terms of Article II. 



Article II. 



The High Contracting Parties engage to put into operation and enforce by legislative 

 and executive action, with as little delay as possible, the provisions of this convention 

 and suid regulations, and tJie date when the said regulations shall be put into o])era- 

 tion, shall be fixed by concurrent proclamations of the Presi<lent of the United States 

 and of the Governor General of tlic Dominion of Canada in Council. Each of the 

 High Contracting Parties may, by appropriate legislation, provide for the trial, con- 

 viction, and punishment within its jurisdiction of any person found there who has 

 contravened any of the provisions of this convention, and/or said regulations within 

 the jurisdiction of the other High (Contracting Party, and who has not been ijunished 

 for such offence within the latter jurisdiction. 



