Abstract

The Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration

This article critically appraises the book "North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration at the Hague: Argument on Behalf of the United States," by Elihu Root and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. The foreword of the book, which, betrays the facile pen of Scott, presents in forty-eight pages an interesting account of the history of the fisheries dispute, of the issues involved in the arbitral submission, and of the tribunal's award and its effect. The dispute involved the! interpretation of a treaty granting to American citizens in Canadian waters certain exceptional fishing rights, privileges, powers, and immunities which, in the course of time, as conditions changed, brought up new situations not contemplated by the negotiators of the treaty.