APPENDIX, 



EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT BY THE SELECT 

 COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON 

 THE SALMON FISHERIES, 1860. 



First. As to the law affecting salmon fisheries in 

 Scotland. 



By the law of Scotland the right of salmon fishing 

 is inter regalia, and is vested in the sovereign, jure 

 coronce. The salmon is not, however like the whale 

 or sturgeon a royal fish, so as to give the Crown 

 an actual right of property in every salmon that is 

 caught; but the right of the Crown is to the salmon 

 fishings in Scotland, which, as observed in a case that 

 lately came before the House of Lords in its judicial 

 capacity, "appears to be a common and well understood 

 description of the subject of claim." 



Salmon fishings have from a very early period been 

 the subject of grants by the Crown, and the fishings in 

 rivers which yet remain vested in the sovereign are 

 probably not of great extent. 



The grants by the Crown of salmon fishings in the sea 

 are not so numerous as those of fishings in rivers ; and 

 although some grants have been made of fishings in the 

 sea, there appears to be altogether a considerable extent 

 of coast upon which the salmon fishings still belong to 

 the Crown. 



