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British fishermen ; but it is understood that a Bill to confirm it will 

 be introduced in the present session of Parliament. Whenever the 

 North Sea Convention takes effect, the present anomalous relations 

 btween England and France as to the Channel fisheries will have to 

 be reconsidered. It will be remembered that British fishermen are 

 under one law and French under another; and an additional compli- 

 cation may be introduced by the limits of the new Convention, to 

 which France is a party, overlapping those of the old ones at some 

 points. This seems not unlikely to lead to total abrogation of the for- 

 mer Conventions, and the adoption, as between England and France, 

 of the North Sea Convention (with whatever not inconsistent addi- 

 tions the local circumstances may require) for the Channel fisheries 

 also. 



T|ie Treaty of Washington, made in 1871 between England and 

 the United States, contained articles (afterwards confirmed by Par- 

 liament giving American fishermen the right of sea-fishing and 

 landing nets and fish on the Canadian coast, and the like right to 

 British fishermen on the east coast of the United States above 39 

 N. lat. There are no detailed regulations or police provisions of 

 any kind. 



EXTRACT FROM " THE FISHERIES OF CANADA," BY L. Z. JONCAS, 

 READ AT THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION, LON- 

 DON, 1883. [ 6 ] 



The fisheries of Canada can be divided into two great classes; the 

 sea fisheries, and the fresh water, or lake and river fisheries. 



The former are subdivided into the cod fishery, the herring fishery, 

 the mackerel fishery, the lobster fishery, and the seal fishery. The 

 latter comprises the salmon and trout fisheries, the white fish fisheries, 

 etc. 



The sea fisheries are carried on especially in what we call the mari- 

 time provinces, namely: Nova Scotia, Quebec, New Brunswick, and 

 Prince Edward Island, whilst the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, 

 and British Columbia are celebrated for their inland fisheries. 



In the river and gulf of St. Lawrence alone, Canada possesses more 

 than nine hundred miles of coast, along which are to be found, at 

 different seasons of the year, a greater abundance and variety of fish 

 than in any other part of America. 



The shoals of cod-fish, mackerel, herring, etc., which approach our 

 shores for purposes connected with the reproduction of their species 

 are immense, and, I was going to^ay. inexhaustible. 



Of all the fish named above, the cod, the mackerel, the herring, and 

 the lobster, have especially attracted the attention of the fishermen 

 of Canada. 



The cod fishery being the most important and the most valuable, 

 the one that gives occupation to the greatest number of men, employs 

 the greatest number of vessels, and produces, commercially speaking, 

 the most advantageous results, I will give it the precedence over the 

 others. 



35 & 36 Viet. c. 45. The Act seems to have been required only for the pur- 

 pose of repealing earlier inconsistent statutes. 



[ 6 Published by William Clowes and Sons, London, 1883.] 



