In 1898 a commission was appointed to agree upon all points of difference.

Working slowly but steadily, the commissioners settled one question after another, until practically all problems were put upon a permanent working basis.

Perhaps the most interesting of the results of this activity was the appointment in 1908 of a permanent International Fisheries Commission, which still regulates that vexing question.
Another source of international complication arose out of the Atlantic fisheries off Newfoundland, which is not part of Canada.

It is off these shores that the most important deep-sea fishing takes place.

This fishery was one of the earliest American sources of wealth, and for nearly two centuries formed a sort of keystone of the whole commercial life of the United States.