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Show pfcasized the fact that the three-mile limit popularly regarded as internationally interna-tionally valid is entirely inadequate.''" FISH CONSERVATION I A movement is afoot to extend the I ; three-mile limit in the interest of fish conservation and protection. The matter mat-ter -will bo brought before ho convention conven-tion of the American Fisheries socie'y at St. L-ottis on October 9 and 10. Professor K. E. Prir.ro, commi?.sioner j of fisheries for the Dominion of Can- i nda, will ask tho foeiety to adopt rcso- J lutions urging tho extension, lie asserts as-serts that the so-called three-mile limit is unsatisfactory and insufficient from a fisheries standpoint, and his department depart-ment favors a readjustment. IIo points out that the three-milo limit is established estab-lished by antiquity, usage iind the gen-ieral gen-ieral consent of nations; that it is uni-i uni-i vcrsaily appii.-d and adopted; that it is ; ;i canna of iaV-rnational law. ! It is urticd that the talmon fisliery on bolh tlje ri.eific and Atlanlie roasts ! rcnuirc a larger limit thaa three rnih-s if it is to be tat e-jarded in the future. ! Canada has alr?ady talten remcda.l steps. In IS 1.1 tlie Dominion government govern-ment aut!rized n prohibition of trawl-iiig trawl-iiig ojierations within a distanco as treat us twelve miles. Owing to war conditions enforcement w;is postponed. There is no reason, however, says the ( anndian commissioner, why such a mj-rial mj-rial nio'hod of fishing as trawling only shoiihl he curtailed or controiled within I that distance, when, as u matlrr of jus- ''in- ;n,i prut ioll to the Ftn.-l;, iill i;;i ' h'.. , of fish.l.j 1 il'illid he under r'-g--liaii'iji v. ithn a d a ii'-'- itiu-l) gi'a1-r jlhan ;!ic yv'. a! t.rriinrial limits off 'll..- j.ropo-.i-d i -es.dul ion j.uta tli't Ao.t rii mi rj-do a iei t''i i.-ty on recor.I as t.ii'g in full agrc-i-menl with the. international inter-national and other hod:-s which have ur;-'d the f-ti-usioii of ti.j t erri t rrial liniit in coastal iiteis find "havo cin-j |