74 ON THE CHANNEL-FISHERIES. 



inquiry, as affecting almost every individual in the 

 kingdom, but from the numerous instances in which 

 the legislature has interposed ; though, from the 

 foregoing observations, I conceive it must be uni- 

 versally admitted that there is urgent necessity for 

 a further interposition. Another Act must pass to 

 remedy the evils and supply the defects that have 

 been stated, before we can entertain a reasonable 

 hope of restoring the fisheries to that consequence 

 and value, which they would possess if properly pro- 

 tected. I have with this view drawn out the form 

 of an Act, which, if carried into a law, I believe 

 would produce these effects, and render salmon and 

 other fish on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, as 

 cheap and as plentiful as ever they were. If there 

 is any thing therein advanced which is incorrect, 

 or any thing omitted which it should contain, the 

 error may be corrected and the defect may be sup- 

 plied. I neither offer it or consider it as a piece of 

 perfection, but it may assist in providing one that 

 is so. 



Form of a Bill to prevent the destruction of the shed 

 or breed of salmon, and fish of the salmon kind; and 

 to prevent the improper taking and destruction of 

 salmon and fish of the salmon kind, in all the rivers 

 ofE?igland; and also, to prevent the destruction of 

 the fry offish, and to prevent the taking of unsize- 

 ablefish on the sea-coast of Devon and Cornwall. 

 Whereas a proper attention to the increase of the 



salmon fisheries in these realms, and to other 



