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12. Capture of immature salmon prohibited.—No salmon or steelhead of less than 
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 Sound lying 
between the parallels of 48° 10’ and 49° 207 north latitude: 
62. Close season for salmon.—From August 25 to September 15 in each year, both 
days inclusive, no salmon or steelhead shall be fished for, killed, or captured for com- 
mercial purposes in these treaty waters; provided, however, that in the waters to the 
westward of a line drawn southward from Gonzales Point to the shore of the State of 
Washington silver salmon, or coho salmon, may be fished for, killed, or captured from 
September 1 to September 15 in each year, both days inclusive. 
63. Weekly close season for salmon and steelhead.—From 6 o’clock Saturday morning 
to 6 o’clock on the Monday morning next succeeding, no salmon or steelhead shall be 
fished for, killed, or captured in these treaty waters. 
It is, however, provided that in the waters to the westward of a line drawn south- 
ward from Gonzales Point to the shore of the State of Washington the weekly close 
season shall begin 12 hours earlier, and shall end 12 hours earlier. 
64. Construction of pound nets.—All pound nets or other stationary appliances for 
the capture of salmon or steelhead shall be so constructed that no fish whatever shall 
be taken during the weekly close season. The erection or addition to the pound net 
of a jigger is prohibited. 
65. Location of pound nets.—All pound nets shall be limited to a length of 2,500 
feet, with an end passageway of at least 600 feet between one pound net and the next 
in a linear series, such distance being measured in continuation of the line of direc- 
tion of the leader of such net, and a lateral passageway of at least 2,400 feet between 
one pound net and the next. 
On and after January 1, 1911, the mesh in pound nets shall be 4 inches in extension 
in the leader and not less than 3 inches in other parts of the net. 
66. Nets other than pound nets.—No purse net shall be used within 3 miles of the 
mouth of any river and no seine within | mile of the mouth of any river in these treaty 
waters. 
No gill net of more than 900 feet in length or of a greater depth than 60 meshes shall 
be used in these treaty waters. 
The effort to enact these regulations into law by our Congress met 
with decided objections not only on the part of the Puzet Sourd 
operators, but also from operators in other waters affected, with the 
result that the bill was shelved and never acted upon finally. After 
waiting a while to see if any action would be taken by our Govern- 
ment, Canada finally repealed the act in which it had accepted the 
regulations. 
DECREASE IN SOCKEYE SALMON RUN. 
In 1913 the matter of the Frazer River-Puget Sound sockeye salmon 
run came prominently to the fore through a rock slide in Hell Gate 
