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order closed these streams to all fishing during the times of closed 

 season on the Columbia, and thus restored peace once more. 



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 has made earnest 

 efforts to preserve this run, but unfortunately the same can not be 

 said of the State of Washington. The laws are fairly good, but 

 owing partly to the small force and facilities available for executing 

 them and partly to other reasons, they have not always been enforced 

 as they should be. 



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 of 

 the food fishes in international boundary waters of the United States 

 and Canada. Both Governments appointed international commis- 

 sioners — Dr. David Starr Jordan for the United States and Mr. S. T. 

 Bastedo (who was succeeded later by Prof. Edward Ernest Prince) 

 for Canada — whose duty it was to investigate conditions prevailing in 

 these waters and to recommend a system of uniform and common 

 international regulations. After an exhaustive investigation the 

 commissioners submitted recommendations, which included the fol- 

 lowing affecting the boundary waters dividing the State of Washing- 

 ton and the Province of British Columbia, these waters being defined 

 as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and those parts of Washington Sound, 

 the Gulf of Georgia, and Puget Sound lying between the parallels of 

 48° 10' and 49° 20' : 



GENERAL REGULATIONS. 



3. Disposition of prohibited catch. — In case any fish is unintentionally 

 captured contrary to the prohibitions or restrictions contained in any of the 

 following regulations, such fish shall, if possible, be immediately returned 

 alive and uninjured to the water. 



If. Dynamite, poisonous substances, etc. — No person shall place or use quick- 

 lime, 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 destruc- 

 tive 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 consti- 

 tuted authorities. 



