FISHING IN THE PRIAMUR DISTRICT OF SIBERIA, 11 
Arrangements with hooks are permitted for catching sturgeon. The 
length of the net and hedge is established for each station and depends 
upon the width of the river. All other conditions are of a secondary 
nature 
The right to fish along the seacoast of the whole Russian Far East 
is open to Japanese subjects on an equal basis with Russians, by 
virtue of the Russo-Japanese Convention of 1907, which was con- 
cluded for a term of 12 years; the stations applied for, after being 
ratified by the Priamur Department of Domains, are sold at public 
tender, usually durmg February and March. The convention ex- 
cludes certain bays and gulfs, in which fishing rights are granted 
only to Russian subjects. ‘There is no restriction as to the nationality 
of the laborers employed at: the sea fishing stations or as to the 
method of preparing the fish products, except that the manufacture 
of fertilizer from salmon is not permitted. The use of vessels under 
foreign flags is allowed. Throw nets can be used, but they are being 
replaced by permanent nets, the usual type of which are called 
. “tateami.”’ 
In the bays and gulfs excluded by the Russo-Japanese Fishing 
Convention (Peter the Great Bay, Imperial Harbor, Vanina Bay, 
Avatchina Bay and several others),.as well as in the rivers in the 
Okhotsk-Kamchatka district, the Priamur Department of Domains 
may, in accordance with an order of the Agricultural Department, 
grant fishing rights without public tender to trustworthy persons, 
first for one season, after which, if the business has been established 
on a firm basis, for a term of 12 years, under the control of the Minister 
of Agriculture and Land Organization (law of June 21, 1910, per- 
taining to river fishing stations). 
A rental charge of 5 kopecks (24 cents) per pood of 36.1128 pounds 
of prepared product is made, and an unalterable condition in such 
leases is that the lessee is obliged to use exclusively Russian laborers 
and sailing vessels under the Russian flag. The use of foreign steam 
vessels is not prohibited by the administration. Throw nets not 
longer than the width of the river at the place of catching are allowed 
as are also set nets, the ‘‘zaezdka” of the Amur type, which consist 
of a barrier placed across the river from the shore to deep water and 
endin a trap. In Peter the Great Bay, in addition to the above, set 
nets and large drag nets are permitted. 
The length of the “zaezdka” can not be more than half of the 
channel width; in reality a large part of the channel of the river 
where ‘‘zaezdka”’ are used is kept free to permit the passage of fish 
up. the river. All other minor conditions of the lease are covered in 
the contract. 
