PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES 505 



WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA 



The conditions wliicli prevail in Puget Sound adjacent to the 

 boundary between Wasliin<2;ton and British Columbia have also been 

 the cause of serious anxiety to those interested in the perpetuation 

 of the salmon fisheries. The great schools of sockeye salmon which 

 are on their way from the ocean to the spawning l)eds in tlu^ Fraser 

 River pass thi'ough this section, and it is here that the gn^iter part of 

 the fishing is done. The Province of British Columbia and the State 

 of Washington are vitally interested in the preservation of these 

 fish. 



The condition of afi'airs on Puget Sound and similar conditions in 

 other boundary waters led the General Government to take up the 

 matter, and on April 11, 1908, a convention was concluded between 

 this country and Great Britam for the protection and preservation 

 of the food fishes in mternational boundary waters of the United 

 States and Canada. Both Governments appointed international 

 commissioners — Dr. David Starr Jordan for the United States and 

 S. T. Bastedo (who was succeeded later by Prof. Edward Ernest 

 Prince) for Canada — whose duty it was to investigate conditions pre- 

 vailing in these waters and to recommend a system of uniform and 

 common international regulations. After an exhaustive investiga- 

 tion the commissioners submitted recommendations, which included 

 the follo\\Tng affectmg the boundary waters dividing the State of 

 Washington and the Pro^dnce of British Columbia, these waters 

 being defined as the Strait ©f Juan de Fuca, and those parts of Wash- 

 ington Sound, the Gulf of Georgia, and Puget Sound lying between 

 the parallels of 48° 10' and 49° 20': 



GENERAL REGULATIONS 



5. Disposition of prohibited catch. — In case any fish is unintentionally captured 

 contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained in any of the following regu- 

 lations, such fish shall, if possible, be immediately returned alive and uninjured 

 to the water. 



4- Dynamite, poisonous stihstances, etc. — No person shall place or use quicklime, 

 dynamite, explosive, or poisonous substances, or electric device in treaty waters 

 for the purpose of capturing or killing fish. 



5. Pollution of ivaters. — No person shall place or pass, or allow to pass, into 

 treaty waters any substance offensive to fishers, injurious to fish life, or destruc- 

 tive to fish ivy or to the food of fish fry, unless permitted so to do under any law 

 passed by the legislative authority having jurisdiction. 



No person shall deposit dead fish, fish offal, or gurry in treaty waters, or on ice 

 formed thereon, except in gurry grounds established by the duly constituted 

 authorities. 



6. Capture of fishes for propagation or for scientific purposes. — Nothing contained 

 in these regulations shall prohibit or interfere with the taking of any fishes at any 

 time for propagation or hatchery purposes, and obtaining at any time or by any 

 method specimens of fishes for scientific purposes under authority granted for 

 Canadian treaty waters by the duly constituted authorities in Canada and for 

 United States treaty waters by the duly constituted authorities in the United 

 States. 



12. Capture of immature salmon prohibited. — No salmon or steelhead of less than 

 3 pounds in weight shall be fished for, killed, or captured in treaty waters. 



13. Salmon weirs, etc., above tidal limits prohibited. — No salmon and no steelhead 

 shall be fished for, killed, or captured by means of a net of any sort, any weir or any 

 fish wheel, -above tidal limits in any river in treaty waters. 



14- Close season for sturgeon. — During the term of four years next following the 

 date of the promulgation of these regulations no sturgeon shall be fished for, 

 killed, or captured in treaty waters. 



15. Capture of fish for fertilizer or oil prohibited. — Fishes useful for human food 

 shall not be fished for, killed, or captured in treatj'- waters for use in the manu- 

 facture of fertilizer, or of oil other than oil for food or medicinal purposes. 



