Pacific Salmon Fisheries (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...said States, which would affect said concurrent jurisdiction, shall be made, changed, altered, and amended in whole or in part only with the mutual consent and approbation of both States. As such an agreement between two States requires the approval of Congress, a bill ratifying the same was introduced in Congress dii December 16, 1915, but was not finally ratified until April 1, 1918. While the compact was pending in Congress, the Washington legislature at its 1917 session made several changes in the existing fisheries law and contended they were effective because the compact agreement was not ratified by Congress until 1918, which then did not take recognition of the new regulations. When the matter came officially before the superior court of Pacific County, Wash., in 1919, the court held that the compact was valid, thus nullifying laws passed by the State of Washington affecting the Columbia Kiver since 1915, and if this decision stands in the higher courts of both States all laws passed by either legislature since 1915, affecting the Columbia Kiver fisheries, will fail unless they happen to be the same in both States. AMERICAN-CANADIAN FISHERIES CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA. The conditions which prevail in Puget Sound adjacent to the boundary between Washington and British Columbia have also been the cause of serious anxiety to those interested in the perpetuation of the salmon fisheries. The great schools of sockeye salmon which are on their way from the ocean to the spawning beds in the Fraser River pass through this section, and it is here that the greater part of the fishing is done. The Province of British Columbia and the State of Washington are vitally interested in the preservation of these fish, but, unfortunately, they seem una...