59 QUESTION SIX. 



" COASTS " AND " SHORES." 



The United States Case deals very shortly indeed with this Ques- 

 tion, stating that further discussion of it is reserved. 



Under these circumstances His Majesty's Government does not 

 propose at the present stage to add anything to the considerations 

 already submitted in the British Case except to state that it cannot 

 be admitted that (United States Case, p. 245) 



" the United States has always asserted the right of the American 

 fisherman to take fish in the waters referred to, and American fisher- 

 men have ever since the treaty was made, openly exercised their right 

 to take fish in these waters." 



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