of the banks between which the river runs into the sea. They will abstain 

 from using fixed fishing gear without permission of the local authorities. 



On the part of the coast mentioned above, the English and the French 

 will be on equal footing to the laws and rules actually in force or which will 

 be drawn up later for the prohibition, during a fixed time, of fishing for cer- 

 tain fish, or for conserving the fisheries. There will be given notice, to the 

 government of France of new laws and regulations three months before the 

 time they are to be applied. 



"The policing of the fishery on the above-mentioned part of the coast as 

 well as that of illegal traffic in liquors and contreband alcohols, will be the 

 object of regulations established between the two governments." 



Article 3 stipulated that "a pecuniary indemnity will be allowed by the 

 government of his Britannic Majesty to French citizens engaged in the fishery 

 or in the preparation of fish on the Treaty Shore, who may be obliged, either 

 to abandon the establishments they possess or to give up their businesses in 

 conforming to the modifications brought about by the present Convention" and 

 that "this indemnity can be claimed only by those engaged in the fishery be- 

 fore the fishing season of 1903. " 



Thus the regime of the "Treaty Shore" was substituted for that of the 

 French Shore. The essential differences were that the French lost, without 

 possible dispute, the right of monopoly on the part of the Newfoundland coast 

 made the object of treaties and conventions and that, if their right to fish was 

 maintained, it was on an equal footing with the inhabitants of Newfoundland, 

 and on condition of conforming to the rules set up by the local authorities; 

 moreover, all establishments on the coast, even temporary, were forever 

 forbidden them. 



The convention of 1904 put an end, then, to the old French industry of 

 drying cod on the coast of Newfoundland. But it was not, in reality, a great 

 sacrifice, since in the years which preceded the signing of the convention, the 

 occasional outfittings which were made were only for the object of fishing for 

 and preparing lobsters. If one can imagine, in 1904, that by reason of un- 

 forseeable circumstances of technical and economic advance, France thought 

 some day to regret having abandoned her rights to all temporary occupation 

 of a part of the coast of Newfoundland, the progressive disappearance in the 

 following years of the sailing vessels of the great fishery before the steam and 



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