510 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Article VIII 



The present convention shall be duly ratified by the President of the United 

 States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Brit- 

 annic Majesty, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as 

 practicable. 



IX FAITH WHEREOF, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the 

 present convention ip dupUcate and thereunto affixed their seals. 



Done at the City of Washington this second day of September, in the year one 

 thousand nine hundred and nineteen. 



ROBERT LANSING, (Seal) 

 R. C. LINDSAY, (Seal) 



J. D. HAZEN. (Seal) 



APPENDIX 



international regt7lations for the protection and preservation of the 

 sockeye salmon fisheries of the eraser river system 



Section 1 



The following regulations shall apply to the waters described in Article III of 

 the convention of September 2, 1919, between the United States and Great 

 Britain, to which these regulations are appended, to-wit: 



(Here is inserted the description of the waters affected, as already set forth in 

 Article III above.) 



Section 2 



definitions 



"Drift net" shall mean a floating gill net that is neither anchored nor staked, 

 but that floats freely with the tide or current. 



"Trap net" shall include a pound net. 



"Commission" shall mean the International Fisheries Commission appointed 

 under the convention to which these regulations are appended. 



"Treaty waters" shall mean all waters described in Article III of the conven- 

 tion to which these regulations are appended. 



Section 3 



(a) Fishing for sockeye salmon in the treaty waters within the territorial limits 

 of the State of Washington, shall not be permissible except under license from 

 such state, and in the treaty waters of Canada except under license under the pro- 

 visions of the fisheries act of Canada. 



(6) No greater number of licenses for any class of fishing appliance shall be au- 

 thorized in any year in the treaty waters within the territorial limits of the State of 

 Washington than were issued for such class for the season of 1918, up to August 

 31st, inclusive thereof, and in the treaty waters of Canada the number of gill nets 

 that may be licensed in any year shall not exceed 1,800. 



(c) No license shall be granted to any person or partnership in the State of 

 Washington unless such person or each member of such partnership shall be an 

 American citizen, resident in said State, and no license shall be granted to any 

 joint-stock company or corporation in said State, unless the officers, directors and 

 the holders of a majority of the stock thereof, are American citizens, or unless 

 it is authorized to do business in the said State; and no license shall be granted to 

 any person, company or firm in the Province of British Columbia unless such 

 person is a British subject resident in the said Province, or unless such company or 

 firm is a Canadian company or firm, or is authorized by the Provincial Govern- 

 ment to do business in the said Province of British Columbia. 



(d) No one other than a British subject who owns or leases land on either side 

 of the Eraser River above New Westminster Bridge, and who actually perma- 

 nently resides on, and is cultivating such land, shall be eligil)le for a license to fish 

 for sockeye salmon between New Westminster Bridge and Mission Bridge, but 

 fishing under such license shall not be carried on below New Westminster Bridge. 



Section 4 



The use of nets other than drift nets, purse seines, and trap nets shall not be per- 

 mitted in treaty waters for the capture of sockeye salmon. 



