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The Province contends that the fish, being the property of British 
Columbia, it has the right to prescribe where, when and how its 
licensees shall take its fish, subject to any regulations made by the 
Dominion authorities. 
The second and more important question to be submitted will 
be for a definition of sub-section E of section 5 of the Terms of 
Union (quoted above). 
PACIFIC FOOD FISHES. 
The following brief descriptions of the food fishes of the North 
Pacific are taken from the latest authorities, and may be accepted 
as fairly reliable, although it must be admitted that the knowledge 
of the life habits of most of the species is so meagre as to call for 
systematic biological investigation. The pressing necessity for 
scientific study of the marine life in British Columbia waters is 
recognized by the Dominion Government, and a biological station 
has been established at Departure Bay, near Nanaimo. In mention- 
ing the establishment of this station, the Deputy Minister of Marine 
and Fisheries says: “Nowhere else on the North American 
continent is there a field so prolific and so inviting as these 
unparalleled waters of the great Pacific Province of Canada.’-— 
Annual Report, 1909. 
SALMON. 
The Pacific salmon is thus described by Mr. John Pease 
Babcock, Provincial Commissioner of Fisheries :— 
“We have in our waters the five known species of the genus 
oncorhynchus, termed the Pacific salmon. They are distinct from 
the salmon of the Atlantic, which are the genus salmo. Indeed, 
the word salmon does not by right belong to any fish found in the 
Pacific, it having first been applied to a genus found in Europe. 
The settlement of the Atlantic Coast of America was made by a 
people familiar with the European form, who at once recognized 
this fish as running in the rivers of their newly-acquired territory. 
They naturally and by right gave it the name salmon, for it is 
