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legislation commenced in 1804, and all the fisheries 

 of the Solway and its Scotch tributaries, except the 

 Annan and Esk, were regulated by an Act passed in 

 that year. In 1861 the English Act repealed the 

 Solway Act in so far as it related to English waters, 

 and in 1865 the whole of the Esk was put under 

 English law. In 1862 the English law as to fixed 

 engines was made to apply to the whole of the 

 Solway Firth. The Annan was placed under a special 

 Act in 1841, which Act extends to its tributaries, and 

 to that portion of the sea-coast lying between the 

 rivers Sark on the east and Lochar on the west. 



To the state of affairs which must have existed 

 in olden days, when the hand of everyone was against 

 the salmon in these waters, and it became necessary 

 by united legislation to prevent their extermination, we 

 find an almost parallel instance in the condition of 

 affairs and destruction of the seals in the Behring Sea 

 by Canadian and United States fishermen at the 

 present time. 



