EXTRACTS FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 

 OF MARINE AND FISHERIES. 



List of United States vessels reported as having taken out annual 

 licenses : 



EXTRACTS FROM ANNUAL REPORTS. 



Report for 1889. 



The service during the past season has been carried on most satis- 

 factorily, there being an evident desire on the part of United States 

 fishing vessels to fairly observe the regulations, and friction between 

 the masters and the officers of the Protection Force has been avoided, 

 while the existence of the so called modus vivendi license system has 

 been an important factor in the maintenance of order and goodwill. 

 The licenses issued numbered 78, as against 36 in 1888; the amount 

 collected being $9,589.50, as against $3,831.00 in 1888, an increase of 

 42 licenses and $5,758.50 in collections in 1889 over the previous year. 



As the two years for which the modus vivendi made provision in 

 connection with the granting of these licenses expires on the 15th of 

 February of next year, unless some new arrangement is reached or 

 provision made for continuing the present system, recourse will be 

 necessary to the much discussed provisions of the Treaty of 1818. 



The only seizure made during the year was that of the United 

 States' fishing schooner Mattie Winship, Captain Conrad "W. Ericson, 

 73 tons, of Gloucester, Mass., seized by Captain Knowlton, of the 

 Vigilant, for illegally fishing off the North Cape coast of Victoria 

 County on the 31st May, 1889. This vessel was released under bond, 

 and subsequently discharged upon the payment to the Crown of a 

 fine of $2,000 and all expenses. 



In the month of November judgment was given by the Vice Admi- 

 ralty Court of Nova Scotia in the case of the schooner David J. 

 Adams, seized in 1886 for preparing to fish in the offing near Digby, 

 N. S., decreeing the vessel's forfeiture and ordering that she be dis- 

 posed of by public auction. This was done after due notice, when 

 the vessel sold for the sum of $1,400. 

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