The Fishery Question.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 2

The Fishery Question.

The Deputy Minister of the Canadian fisheiies announced on August 3id that an order had been issued releasing, on payment of a nominal line, all the American fishing schooners recently seized within the three-mile limit ot the New Dominion Coast. Developments toward an amicablesettlement of the lishing troubles are daily being 1 received by the oflicials ot the department. The British Government has been urging the Uo\ eminent of Canada to relax, and, in fact, are insisting on certain concessions, which lune hitherto been refused, being made by the Canadians to American fishermen, a-* the only mean-; ot Great Britain's being able to hold her friendly lelations with the United States. A Canadian Cabinet Minister said on August sth that the Government uould not modify the stand already taken by Canada. Fleets of American n'shiug-\ebsels ait now broaching in Canadian wateis despite the boasted protection of the coast. One hundred \*eie reported oif l'nnce Edwaid Island. The British war&hiph now in the North American waters are to take a hand, it would appear, in settling the fishery trouble. They will not act as patrol 4 - merely to keep American fishermen outride the forbidden waters, but will make seizuie when they cto-h the line. The Bellerophon, Canada and Pleiades, have been ouleied from Halifax,.U.S., to the (Julf of St. Lawrence to iclnforce the Canadian cruisers there already. Admiral Luce, Commander of the United States naval foices in North Atlantic wateis, has authorised the statement that his ships were not sent to the Gulf of St. Law rence to prevent by force the <-ei/ure of American fisheimen by the Dominion cruiser>, but rather to render such moral support as the mere presence of Federal ships might af*oul. Luce, it may be stated, ha^ been shaiply written to by Whitney, U.S. Secretary of the navy, for compaiincr notes with the Dominion officials. All information on the subject, he is re minded, must come to him through the department at Washington. In consequence of Whitney s note, Admiral Luce has requested to be relieved of the command of the U. S. North Atlantic squadron, and Commodore Benhan, at piotcnt in charge of the third distiicfc lighthouse, will rthe\ c him.