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Show SEIZED BY CANADIANS. American Pishing Craft Pined for Poaching In. Poreign. Waters. . FjASTPORT, Me., Nov. 28. Ten American fishing craft, Including eight sailing vessels and two steamboats, have been seized by the Canadian fisheries' fish-eries' protective cruiser Curlew and fined for illegal fishing In the Canadian waters of a tributary of Passama-quoddy Passama-quoddy bay near St. George, N. B. The fishing craft were seized near SL George last night, although an announcement an-nouncement of this procedure was not made until today. Three specific charges were placed against the vessels that they had fished on Sunday; that they had Illegally Ille-gally caught fish found In their possession pos-session and that they had seined Illegally Ille-gally In Canadian waters. For the first two offenses each boat was fined 5100 and for the last, $200. In addition to this all of the seines and fish were confiscated. It Is understood that the fines will be paid and that the entire matter will be disposed of without involving any International question. The aggregate value of the craft Is about $20,000. The seizure is the most extensive that has been made by a Canadian cruiser for many years. |