PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 101 
Columbia was closed. The ery of bad faith was at once raised by 
the Washington fishermen, and for a short time it appeared that the 
agreement would be broken at the very beginning. The Oregon 
Board of Fish Commissioners took the matter up, however, and by 
order closed these streams to all fishing during the times of closed 
season on the Columbia, and thus restored peace once more. 
This agreement continued in force until 1915, when the legislature 
of each State prepared for a thorough revision of its fishery code. In 
order to make this revision more effective, committees from both 
legislatures were appointed and held joint meetings in Portland, 
where they mutually agreed upon laws covering the fisheries of the 
Columbia River, and in order to make this agreement more binding 
the following chapter was inserted in the codes finally adopted: 
All laws and regulations now existing, or which may be necessary for regulating, 
protecting, or preserving fish in the waters of the Columbia River, over which the 
States of Oregon and Washington have concurrent jurisdiction, or any other waters 
within either of said States, which would affect said concurrent jurisdiction, shall be 
made, changed, altered, and amended in whole or in part only with the mutual 
consent and approbation of both States. 
As such an agreement between two States requires the approval 
of Congress, a bill ratifying same was introduced in Congress on 
December 16, 1915. This compact was not acted on by the 64th 
Congress. 
The conditions which prevail in Puget Sound adjacent to the 
boundary between Washington 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 beds in the Fraser 
River pass through this section, and it is here that the greater 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, but, unfortunately, they seem to be unable to agree upon any 
definite policy with regard to their conservation, although it would 
appear to the unprejudiced observer that it ought to be possible to 
find some common ground upon which they could agree. 
This condition of affairs 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 Britain for the protection and preservation 
of the food fishes in international 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- 
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