1978 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



sides, set down to the bottom, with a leader that runs up to the shore, 

 so that as fish pass along the shore they run against this leader, that is, 

 a net running up to the shore, they run against that, and follow that 

 along down, and go into the trap, and there they are when the fisher- 

 man goes out in the morning. That is purely the shore fisherman's 

 concern. He sets it out from the shore. It is not a vessel fisherman's 

 plan. The way in which the vessel fishermen take cod-fish on this 

 south shore, and also upon the Labrador shore, is by the bultow, these 

 long lines ; and, here is the provision which prohibits the use of that 

 kind of fishing on the very coast and the only part of the coast to 

 which Americans may resort for cod-fishing purposes. There are 

 other little places, where there are local regulations, where there is 

 a similar prohibition, depending, as Sir James said, on local option, 

 people wanting to keep anybody else from coming and interfering 

 with their fisheries. 



You see they are protecting the shore fishermen against people 

 coming from outside. 



When you get up on to the Labrador coast there is another pro- 

 vision contained in the very next section on p. 208. That section 

 provides : 



"No person shall place in the waters of the Labrador Coast, any 

 cod-trap, or cod-trap leader or mooring, nor shall it be lawful for any 

 person to put out any contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of 

 securing a trap-berth on that portion of the coast: From Blanc 

 Sablon to Gull Island, near the north-east point of Square Island, 

 before noon of the first day of June." 



Then in regard to another portion of the Labrador coast, before 

 the 5th of June ; another the 10th June ; another before the 20th June, 

 and so on down to the 10th July. 



So that the times for setting these cod-traps and cod-trap leaders, 

 which are used by the Newfoundland fishermen on the Labrador coast 

 for the taking of cod-fish, are set at different dates from the 1st June 

 to the 10th July. 



That is supposed to prevent anybody from coming in and taking 

 an unfair advantage, and getting a location for his cod-traps. You 

 will notice it refers not only to placing the cod-traps, but of placing 

 any contrivance for the purpose of securing a trap-berth. 



There are other provisions which make it possible for a man to take 

 and hold a cod-trap berth by putting up poles. That is regulated in 

 section 54 of the same regulation which appears on p. 206 : 



" Two poles or buoys moored to indicate the position in which it is 

 intended a cod-trap is to be set," and so on. 



That is a regulation of Newfoundland fishing with reference to 



the securing of these locations for the taking of cod-fish and, 



1198 of course, by the 10th July, the great army of Newfoundland 



