REMARKS, 



4rc. 



THE Salmon Fishery of Scotland has been lately 

 brought forward as an object of national interest, 

 which had been neglected, and it is said that the 

 laws by which it is regulated are obsolete, founded 

 in ignorance, and that they tend to encourage mo- 

 nopoly. It is, however, pretty certain, ihat it oc- 

 cupied the attention of our ancestors many centu- 

 ries ago, and that they, as well as other northern 

 nations, were well acquainted with the nature and 

 habits of the Fish, and, as they thought, with the 

 interest of the Fisheries. Many laws were passed, 

 whose professed object it was to protect and en- 

 courage the growth of the Fish, while they inter- 

 fered as little as possible with the right of Fishing, 

 which accrued to the possession of the shores where 

 the Fishing could be carried on. 



