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cultural operations in the area described in Article I, and to that end it shall 

 have power to improve spawning grounds, acquire, construct and maintain hatch- 

 eries, rearing ponds and other such facilities as it may determine to be necessary 

 for the proi)agation of sockeye salmon in the water covered by this Convention, 

 and to stock the waters with sockeye salmon by such methods as it may deter- 

 mine to be most advisable. The Commission shall also have authority to recom- 

 mend to the two Governments the removal of obstructions to the ascent of sock- 

 e\"e salmon in the waters covered by this Convention, that may now exist or may 

 from time to time occur, and to improve conditions for the ascent of sockeye 

 salmon, where investigation ma.v show such to be desirable. The Commission 

 shall report annually to the two Governments what it has accomplished and the 

 results of its investigations. 



The cost of all such work shall be borne equally by the two Governments, 

 and the said Governments agree to appropriate annually such money as each may 

 deem desirable for such work in the light of the reports of the Commission. 



Article IV 



The International Salmon Fisheries Commission established pursuant to 

 Article II of this Convention is hereby empowered, between the first day of 

 June and the twentieth day of August in any year, for the whole or any part of 

 the aforesaid period, to limit or prohibit the taking of sockeye salmon in respect 

 of all the waters described in Article I of this Convention, or in respect of waters 

 of the United States and Canadian waters separately, provided, that when any 

 order is adopted by the Commission limiting or prohibiting the taking of sockeye 

 salmon in regard to waters of the United States or Canadian waters separately, 

 it shall extend to all of the waters of the United States or Canadian waters to which 

 this Convention applies, and Provided further, that no order limiting or prohibit- 

 ing the taking of sockeye salmon adopted by the International Salmon Fisheries 

 Commission shall be construed to suspend or otherwise affect the requirements 

 of the laws of the State of Washington or of the Dominion of Canada as to the 

 procuring of a license to fish in the waters on their respective sides of the boundary 

 line. Any order adopted by the Commission limiting or prohibiting the taking of 

 sockeye salmon in said waters during said period, or any part thereof, shall remain 

 in full force and effect unless and until the same be modified or set aside by the 

 Commission. The taking of sockeye salmon in said waters during said period in 

 violation of the orders of the Commission adopted from time to time is hereby 

 proliibited. 



Article V 



In order to secure a proper escapement of sockeye salmon during the spring 

 or Chinook salmon fishing season, the International Salmon Fisheries Commis- 

 sion may prescribe the size of the meshes in all fishing gear and appliances operated 

 in the waters described in Article I of this Convention which are frequented by 

 sockeye salmon. 



Whenever the taking of sockeye salmon in said waters during said period be- 

 tween the first of June and the twentieth of August in any year is permitted 

 under the orders adopted by the Commission in respect of waters of the United 

 States, any fishing appliance legally authorized by the State of Washington may 

 be used in such waters by any person thereunto authorized by that State, and 

 whenever the taking of sockeye salmon in said waters during said period is 

 permitted under the orders adopted by the Commission in respect of Canadian 

 waters any fishing appliances authorized by the laws of the Dominion of Canada 

 may be used in such waters by any person thereunto legally authorized. 



Article VI 



No action taken by the Commission under the authority of Articles IV and V 

 of this Convention shall be effective unless it is affirmatively voted for by at 

 least two of the Commissioners from each country. 



Article VII 



Inasmuch as the purpose of this Convention is to establish for the High Con- 

 tracting Parties, by their joint effort and expense, a fishery that is now largely 

 nonexistent, each of the High Contracting Parties should share equally in the 

 fishery. The Commission shall, consequently, in regulating the fishery do so 

 with the object of enabling, as nearly as they can, an equal portion of the fish 

 that is allowed to be caught each year to be taken by the fishermen of each High 

 Contracting Party. 



