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execution. Hitherto the upper proprietors protected the fishings, 
while the lower proprietors have got the fish, Jt is in the 
interest of the upper proprietors that additional measures are 
required.” 
From Sfie District the following answer came :—“ There 
is no Board;—but some authority should exist. Probably, 
if districts were larger, the formation of a Board would be 
easier ; but I believe inspectors would be better than a Board, 
every member of which is more or less influenced by his own 
interests, while inspectors would be influenced only by the public 
good.” 
From Findhorn District the following answer came :—* Our 
Board seldom meets, and the control is much in the hands of 
the chairman, who occupies that position as having the largest 
(netting) interest. Of course the tendency is to work against the 
interests of upper proprietors, if they are conflicting with those 
of the lower proprietors. ‘The Board must be one-sided, the 
chairman having the casting vote. But they are too much one- 
sided, and unnecessarily so.” 
From Clyde and Leven District the following answer came :— 
“A Board was constituted, but it was never set working. Pro- 
ceedings were taken in Court by Sir James Colquhoun; and he 
got the Board quashed.” 
From Doon District the statement came that the Board, “ being 
found to be unworkable, was allowed to lapse.” 
From Conon District the answer was, that “a Board was con- 
stituted, but it became extinct.” 
The following suggestion came from the Zochy District Board, 
viz.—‘‘ There should be a staff of marine watchers, provided with 
a steam launch, to put down the depredations upon salmon com- 
mitted by trawlers within the southern limits of the district of the 
River Add, and the point of Ardnamurchan. 
“This provision is necessary, owing to the prevalence of the 
capture of salmon in the Sounds of Jura and Scarba, Loch 
Linnhe, the Sound of Mull, and the numerous arms of the sea 
opening therefrom. These watchers should be under the control 
of a general Board.” 
