PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 103 
laws passed by the State of Washington affecting the Columbia 
River since 1915, and if this decision stands in the higher courts of 
both States all laws passed by either legislature since 1915, affecting 
the Columbia River fisheries, will fail unless they happen to be the 
same in both States. 
WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
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 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 
o 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- 
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 
cantrary 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, ete.—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 tg pass, into treaty 
waters any substance offensive to fishers, 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 constitui-d authorities in Canala and for United States treaty 
waters by the duly constituted authorities in the United States. 
