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official inspectors, with the powers and duties of the inspectors in 
England and Ireland. For England, there are two most able and 
intelligent inspectors (Mr. Spencer Walpole and Professor Huxley), 
each with a salary of £700 yearly, a Government office in London, 
and a secretary, who has a salary of £160 yearly. For Ireland, 
there are three inspectors, equally able and intelligent, Major 
Hayes, Mr. Brady, and Mr. Johnston, each with a salary of £700, 
a Government office in Dublin, and a secretary, who has a 
salary. These inspectors are in frequent communication with the 
District Fishery Boards, not only by correspondence, but by 
personal visits to the rivers, and thereby afford to the Boards 
much valuable advice and assistance. 
Why should there be no similar arrangement for Scotland ? 
The following estimates have been given of the yearly value of the 
Salmon Fisheries in the three divisions of the kingdom :— 

By Mr. Caird | By Mr. Young* 
in 1868. in 1877. 
rs £. 
Emeland yn.) en 30,000 100,000 
Ibgytenel A TG 5 Gl 320,000 400,000 
Scotland . . . . «| 200,000 | 250,000 

These figures are surely sufficient to establish the importance of 
the fisheries in each division of the kingdom. 
If the preservation of salmon in our country be allowed to be 
an object of national importance, why should the same means for 
attaining that object, adopted in England and Ireland, not be 
applied to Scotland ? 
The obligation of Government to look after those fisheries, 
which afford alike a large supply of wholesome food to our popu- 
lation, and means of extensive employment to the industrial 
* The figures in this table are taken from Mr. Young’s Treatise on Salmon 
Fisheries in Stamford’s series of ‘ British Industries.’ It is understood that 
Mr. Young’s information was derived from official returns, so far as regards 
England and Ireland ; and, as regards Scotland, from his own personal know- 
ledge of the Scotch rivers, and returns furnished by clerks of District Boards. 
