526 AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC QUESTIONS 



The purchase of bait, ice, seines, lines, and all other supplies 

 and outfits. 



Transshipment of catch and shipping of crews. 



2. If, during the continuance of this arrangement, the United 

 States should remove the duties on fish, fish oil, whale and seal 

 oil (and their coverings, packages, etc.), the said licenses shall be 

 issued free of charge. 



3. United States fishing vessels entering the bays and harbors 

 of the Atlantic coasts of Canada or of Newfoundland for any of 

 the four purposes mentioned in Article 1 of the convention of 

 October 20, 1818, and not remaining therein more than twenty- 

 four hours, shall not be required to enter or clear at the custom 

 house, providing 1 they do not communicate with the shore. 



4. Forfeiture to be exacted only for the offences of fishing or 

 preparing to fish in territorial waters. 



5. This arrangement to take effect as soon as the necessary 

 measures can be completed by the Colonial authorities. 



For the past twelve years, therefore, the regulations gov- 

 erning the Canadian fisheries are those of the convention of 

 1818, as modified by the words of the Modus Vivendi of 

 1888. The arrangement did not prove altogether satisfac- 

 tory at first to either party, and the continued successful 

 operation of the plan depended largely upon the good- will 

 and forbearance of both. 



Changing conditions in the methods of fishing have oper- 

 ated more largely in the last ten years to do away with the 

 troublesome " fishery question " than have a century of diplo- 

 matic skirmishes. At the present moment those chronic 

 differences of the fishermen seem to be almost forgotten, 

 and until new and unforeseen complications arise, the whole 

 matter will probably remain at rest. The liability to fur- 

 ther rupture with Canada concerning these rights lies 

 to-day rather in associated diplomatic questions still unset- 

 tled between the two powers and in the adjustment of which 

 the fishery regulations are likely to be utilized in the shift- 

 ing game of international politics. The fishermen at least 

 are satisfied with present conditions. Each year since 1888, 

 and including the last, the Modus Vivendi has been renewed ; 



