motor trawlers which made obsolete the old procedures of drying, let there 

 remain no doubt in this regard. It would be vain to waste regrets on the loss 

 of a privilege fulfilling needs which are today non-existent. 



But except for drying, the right to fish remained, on an equal footing with 

 British subjects, for the lobsters as well as for other fish. In particular, 

 nothing prevented the French bank fishermen from provisioning with bait on 

 the Treaty Shore, either buying it from local fishermen or capturing it them- 

 selves, after presenting the license, possession of which was required of them. 



In practice, for the coast as well as the bait fishery, the French fisher- 

 men did not take advantage of the rights accorded them on the Treaty Shore. 

 The last campaign to the Treaty Shore was made by the three-masted Presi - 

 dent from Saint Malo in 1908. The colonial fishery was represented in the 

 same year by three two-masted schooners and some wherrys from Saint 

 Pierre, fishing for bait in the neighborhood of Cape Raye. 



Deprived of their shore establishments, the French lobster industry, 

 which had acquired in the recent epoch an undeniable prosperity, could no 

 longer exercise the conditions from which it had profited prior to the con- 

 vention. It became the object, on the part of the British government, of the 

 agreed-upon indemnities, and was abandoned. Nothing prevented, however, 

 that which was continued, with a change which consisted of doing all the cook- 

 ing and canning on board a fishing vessel instead of performing these oper- 

 ations on land. The installation of a simple workshop sufficed, without ques- 

 tion of complicated mechanisms and a veritable factory ship. The boat thus 

 equipped, anchored in a bay of the Treaty Shore, sent out its dories to catch 

 lobsters and proceeded, in the same manner as a shore establishment, to its 

 caixning, as well as green-salting cod and using the heads to bait the lobster 

 traps. 



At present, no outfitting of this kind is attempted; under the regime of 

 the Treaty Shore, the French fishermen no longer appear at Newfoundland. 

 The first years of the 20th century have seen the extinction of the very old 

 tradition of a French fishery on this coast. 



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