HC Deb 04 July 1890 vol 346 c801
CAFTAIN VERNEY (Bucks, N.)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government recognise any Treaty rights with the French to Catch lobsters on the coasts of Newfoundland, or to establish lobster factories on any part of the shores?

*SIR J. FERGUSSON

The answer is that Her Majesty's Government do not recognise such a right. Their view is stated at length in Lord Salisbury's Note to M. Waddington, of March 28, 1889, page 231 of the Blue Book.