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Again, Dr. Day, C.I.E.,; who even our scientists quote 
as an authority, was on his return from India imbued with 
the same idea as they are. On his own account and at his 
own expense he made a careful enquiry round our coasts 
while preparing the material for his splendid work on British 
Fishes. The result was that he was convinced that no 
restrictions whatever could profitably be placed on our’ 
fishermen. 
Sir Thomas Brady, lately one of the. inspectors of 
Irish Fisheries, is strongly impressed with the same 
views. 
Professor McIntosh, on the Scotch coast, in his splendid, 
exhaustive, and convincing work just published, ‘* The 
Resources of the: Sea,” takes the same view. 
Mr. Dunn, the great Cornish authority on fisheries, 
largely interested in them pecuniarily, to whom their success 
is of vital importance, is pressing the same views on the 
authorities. 
Many others could benamed. Authority after authority, 
disgusted by the futility and cruelty of the legislation of 
the past 15 years, which finds its extreme on the Lancashire 
coast, and its wastefulness from an economical point of 
view, are coming round to the views so ably expressed by 
Mr. Walpole 16 years since, and so verified by the results 
of a policy opposed to his advice. The advisers of the 
Lancashire County Council seem to be almost the only 
