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rivers, and then they might see, not only salmon, but fish 
of other kinds greatly increased. 
Mr. Jas. H. CROSSMAN, in proposing a vote of thanks 
to Mr. Milne Home for his very valuable Paper, said that 
one of the beneficial results of the Conferences was that 
gentlemen of experience from all parts of the world were 
brought together to discuss these interesting questions. 
He had always been of opinion that if the regulations 
governing the Tweed fisheries could be applied to the other 
rivers of Scotland they would not have to complain of the 
falling off in the Scotch salmon fisheries. As a member 
of the Executive, he might plead as some excuse to Mr. 
Milne Home for the audience not being larger, that there 
had just been another important lecture on “Fish as Food,” 
by Sir Henry Thompson; but the able paper which had 
been brought before them would be printed and distributed, 
and would therefore not be lost sight of, but be thoroughly 
well considered. 
Mr. BLOOMFIELD seconded the vote of thanks, and said 
that he, as an Irishman, had felt some pleasure in finding 
that Scotchmen were not always able to do things as 
well as an Irishman. . As an old magistrate of thirty 
years’ standing he knew something of the matter, and he 
could say that they were in a much better position in 
Ireland than they appeared to be in Scotland, from what 
Mr. Milne Home had stated. The representatives of 
Canada and the United States had, he thought, given 
them some hints which were worthy of consideration. They 
had shown what the younger Governments were doing to 
further the interests of the people by increasing the supply 
of fish; and he was afraid the old country was very much 
behind them. Fish was an important article of food for the 
