58 FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



Senator Root: Cape Chapeau Rouge is over here, near the 

 western entrance to Placentia Bay, and Point Enragee is up here 

 quite near Cape Raye, so that this covers the entire southern treaty 

 coast, and it also covers that part of the coast which is in proximity 

 to the French Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. 



The Peesident: May I ask you, Mr. Root, how long does the 

 fishing season on the banks last ? 



Senator Root: I think it ends about November — October 

 or November. The ist November, I am told. 



The PREsroENT: Thank you. 



Senator Root: You see this covers the practical resort for 

 bait. Our vessels leave the New England coast about the ist 

 March, they take their first baiting with them, or pick it up some- 

 where along the route, along Nova Scotia; but when they have 

 used up that first bait, then they want to go to the nearest place 

 where they can get it, and get it as quickly as possible, and get 

 back. 



I was about to refer to a curious similarity between this pro- 

 vision and the treaty of 1878 between Austria and Italy, which I 

 was intending to refer to upon another point. In that treaty in 

 which Austria accorded rights of fishing to Italy upon the Dal- 

 matian coast, the east coast of the Adriatic, there is a margin of 

 one mile. Treaty rights are not allowed to come within one mile. 



These gentlemen here have made a new treaty. They have put 

 into their statute the same kind of hmitation which Austria put 

 into a treaty, protecting these people who dwell upon the coast for 

 a mile from all their settlements, from the incursion of anyone to 

 take bait, protecting their industry, protecting the sale of bait. 



The next provision is a provision relating to purse seines. 



Judge Gray: When you say there is a discrimination, will you 

 be good enough to point out just what it is in that ninth section ? 

 The President and myself both would Hke an explanation. 



Senator Root: 



"No person shall, between the tenth day of May and the twentieth day 

 of October in any year, haul, catch or take herrings or other bait foi exportation 



