Lnternational Fisheries Eexhibition 
LONDON, -1883 

CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1883. 

The LORD LOVAT in the Chair. 

The CHAIRMAN, in introducing Mr. Milne Home, said 
the work of the Exhibition would not have been complete 
if a paper on that most noble of our fish, the salmon, had 
been omitted. The importance of the salmon was very 
great, supporting as it does a considerable industry, sup- 
plying avast amount of food, and affording the finest sport 
which in this sporting country a sportsman could enjoy. 

SALMON SAND SALMON FISHERIES: 
IF the announcement in the Programme of this day’s Con- 
ference means that there is to be an account given of the 
Salmon and Salmon Fisheries of the United Kingdom, I 
fear that any information I can furnish will not do justice 
to the subject ; for my knowledge of Salmon and Salmon 
Fisheries is derived only from my experience as a pro- 
prietor of salmon fisheries in one river in the south of 
Scotland, viz., the Tweed; and from having had some 
share in managing the fisheries of the river, and of the 
sea-coast on each side of its mouth. 
But as, according to the latest known returns, the Scotch 
Salmon fisheries are, in value and produce, fully one-third of 
those of the United Kingdom, and there are peculiarities 
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