Litemational Fisheries Exhibition, 

 LONDON, 1883. 



Conference on Tuesday, July 10, 1883. 



J. H. FORDHAM, Esq. (Ex-Prime Warden of the Fish- 

 mongers' Company), in the Chair. 



The Chairman, in introducing Mr. Walpole, said various 

 papers had been read at these Conferences relating to 

 fisheries, but the subject to-day was one which came home 

 to all, and the Executive Committee of the Exhibition hoped 

 that one of the outcomes of the Exhibition might be to 

 facilitate or improve the supply of fish to the Metropolis, 

 which could only be done by an efficient system of trans- 

 port whereby the markets could be supplied, and by those 

 markets being put on a thoroughly efficient and proper 

 footing. He hoped this paper might throw some light on 

 these important subjects as they would expect it to do, 

 considering that the author was a gentleman who for some 

 years held the important position of Inspector of Salmon 

 Fisheries in England, and who had since been promoted to 

 the distinguished post of Governor of the Isle of Man. 



FISH TRANSPORT AND FISH MARKETS. 



Mr. Spencer Walpole : — The subject on which I have 

 undertaken to address you to-day is in one sense a very 

 large one. The question of fish transport and fish markets 

 opens up indirectly almost every topic connected with 



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