102 PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 
tion the commissioners submitted recommendations, which included 
the following affecting the boundary waters dividing the State of 
Washington and the Province of British Columbia, these waters 
being defined.as the Strait of 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. 
8. Disposition of prohibited catch—In case any fish is unintentionally captured 
contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained in any of the following regula- 
tions, such fish shall, if possible, be immediately returned alive and uninjured to the 
water. 
4. Dynamite, poisonous substances, 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 waters.—No person shall place or pass, or allow to pass, into treaty 
waters any substance offensive to fishes, injurious to fish life, or destructive to fish 
fry 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 constitttted 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 treaty waters for use in the manufacture of 
fertilizer, or of oil other than oil for food or medicinal purposes. 
16. Naked hooks and spears prohibited—No spear, grappling hook, or naked hook, 
and no artificial bait with more than three hooks, or more than one burr of three hooks 
attached thereto, shall be used for the capture of fish in treaty waters. This regula- 
tion shall not prohibit the use of a gaff in hook-and-line fishing. 
17. Torching prohibited.—No torch, flambeau, or other artificial light shall be used 
as a lure for fish in treaty waters. 
The following regulations relate specifically to the waters named: 
STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA AND ADJACENT WATERS. 
The following regulations (62 to 66, inclusive) shall apply to the Strait of Juan de 
Fuca, those parts of Washington Sound, the Gulf of Georgia, and Puget Round lying 
between the parallels of 48° 10’ and 49° 20’ north latitude: 
