APPENDIX. 



No. I. SALMON FISHERIES. 



THE following particulars relative to the Salmon, con- 

 sidered in a commercial point of view, may prove 

 interesting to the reader. 



" Salmon-fisheries," Marshall observes, " are copious 

 and constant sources of human food; they rank next to 

 agriculture. They have indeed one advantage over every 

 other internal produce, their increase does not lessen 

 other articles of human subsistence. The salmon does 

 not prey on the produce of the soil, nor does it owe its 

 size and nutritive qualities to the destruction of its com- 

 patriot tribes. It leaves its native rivers at an early state 

 of growth; and going, even naturalists know not where, 

 returns of ample size, and rich in human nourishment; 

 exposing itself to the narrowest streams, as if nature 

 intended it a special boon to man. In every state of 

 savageness and civilisation, the salmon must have been 

 considered as a valuable benefaction to this country." 



Such salmon as are taken in estuaries or rivers are, of 

 course, the property of those to whom the estuaries or 

 rivers belong ; the fisheries in them frequently letting for 

 very large sums; but of late, very considerable quantities 

 of salmon have been taken in exposed bays, and in the 

 open sea, where the fishing is free to any one who chooses 

 to engage in it. 



The London market, where the consumption is 

 immense, has been, since the year 1790, principally 



