11.  Millions of salmon returning from the north Pacific to spawn in the rivers and streams of British Columbia pass first through American waters off Alaska.

12.  Scientists are not sure how it got into wild American waters, but the disposal of contaminated fish parts is suspected.

13.  Some are in American waters, some in Canadian.

14.  The Americans say the Canadians have excessively fished the prized coho and chinook salmon off British Columbia as they make their way to American spawning waters.

15.  The Coast Guard hopes he clears American waters without incident.

16.  The government, he said, is considering or has already adopted a number of new regulations intended to minimize the amount of bycatch in American waters.

17.  The National Maritime Fisheries Service, which oversees fishing management practices in American coastal waters, can also help.

18.  The strategy has sharply curtailed the arrival of ships to American waters.

19.  The U.S. Coast Guard has established a blacklist of owners, and their vessels receive greater scrutiny than others when they enter American waters.

20.  Travel to Vancouver Island could be royally disrupted if B.C. Ferries were barred from American waters.