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closely neighbouring British territory and far 

 removed from their own ; and the fishing fleets 

 of the British Isles work grounds as far asunder 

 as the White Sea is from Africa. Yet all their 

 catches figure in official reports as being 

 French, American, or British. And so they 

 legally are, if the men who make them observe 

 the three-mile open-water distance-limit fixed 

 by international agreement as the proper 

 territorial boundary of government control. 

 Beyond three miles from shore all ' nationals ' 

 are on an equal footing. 



Now, taking the word Canadian in the sense 

 just defined, it is safe to say that Canadian 

 waters contain a greater quantity of the 

 principal food fishes than those of any other 

 country. The truth of this statement depends 

 on three facts. The first is that practically 

 all fish landed in Canada are caught in Canadian 

 waters. This is a marked contrast to what 

 happens in the other great fishing countries, 

 like the United States, the British islands, 

 Germany, Norway, and France, all of which 

 send some of their fleets very far afield. The 

 second fact is the statistics of totals caught. 

 Canada at present catches fifty million dollars' 

 worth of fish from her own waters in a single 

 year. The ' Britisher ' and ' Yankee ' totals 



