PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 109 
resident in the said Province, or unless such company or firm is a Canadian company 
or firm, or is authorized by the Provincial Government to do business in the said 
Province of British Columbia. 
(d) No one other than a British subject who owns or leases land on either side of the 
Fraser River above New Westminster Bridge, and who actually permanently resides 
on, and is cultivating such land, shall be eligible for a license to fish for sockeye 
salmon between New Westminster Bridge and Mission Bridge, but fishing under 
such license shall not be carried on below New Westminster Bridge. 
SECTION 4. 
The use of nets other than drift nets, purse seines, and trap nets shall not be per- 
mitted in treaty waters for the capture of sockeye salmon. 
Section 5. 
No net fishing or fishing of any kind, other than with hook and line, except for 
hatchery purposes, or scientific purposes, shall be permissible in the Fraser River 
above the down river side of Mission Bridge. 
SECTION 6. 
During the years 1920 to 1927, both vears inclusive, no one shall fish for, catch or 
kill any salmon from the 20th day of July to the 31st day of July in each year, both 
days inclusive; and during this ciose time, no nets or appliances of any kind that 
will capture salmon may be used in these treaty waters; Provided, however, That 
salmon fishing for hatchery or scientific purposes may be authorized during this 
period. 
SECTION 7. 
The weekly close time for salmon fishing shall be from six o’clock a. m. Saturday, 
to six o’clock p. m. Sunday, in Canadian waters, excepting in that portion of the 
Fraser River hetween New Westmiuster Bridge and Mission Bridge, where the 
weekly cose time shall be from six o’clock a. m. Saturday to six o'clock p. m. on the 
following Monday, and in the treaty waters of the United States from Friday at four 
o'clock p. m. to Sunday at four o’clock a. m. and during this close time no 
salmon fishing of any kind other than for hatchery or scientific purposes shall 
be permissible, and during the full period of each weekly close time or annual 
close season, each trap net shall be closed by an apron across the outer entrance 
to the heart of the trap, which apron shall extend from the surface to the bottom 
of the water and shall be securely connected to the piles on either side of 
the heart of the trap net, fastened by rings not more than two feet apart on 
taut wires stretched from the top to the bottom of the piles, and such apron, 
or the appliance by which it is raised and lowered, shall be provided with a signal or 
flag, which shall disclose whether the trap net is closed, and which shall be of the 
form and character approved by the commission: Provided, that in addition to the 
foregoing requirement, such trap net shall be equipped with a V-shaped opening, to 
the satisfaction of the commissior, and in the lead of such trap net next to the entrance 
to the heart and unmediately adjacent to the apron, of at least ten feet in width at 
the top and extending beiow the surface at least four feec below low water, which V- 
eae y opening shall remain open and unobstructed during the full period of each 
weekly close time or annual close season. [or the purposes of assuring full compli- 
ance with this regulation, the owner or operator of each trap net shall coustantly main- 
tain during the weekly and annual close time a watchman, whose duty it shall be to 
cause each trap net to be kept closed and the lead to be kept open, as above provided. 
SECTION 8. 
All salmon trap nets shall be limited to a total length of twenty-five hundred feet, 
with an end passageway of at least six hundred feet between oue trap net and the next 
in linear series, such distances being measured in continuation of the line of direction 
of the leader of such trap net, but in no instance shall more than two-thirds of the 
width of any passageway at any point be closed by trap uets. There shall also be a 
lateral distance of at least twenty-four hundred feet between one trap net and the 
next. 
Srcrion 9. 
A salmon Pe seine shall not exceed nineteen hundred linear feet in length, in- 
cluding the lead and attachment, measured on the cork line when wet. 
