CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1883. 



The LORD LOVAT in the Chair. 



The CHAIRMAN, in introducing Mr. Milne Home, said 

 the work of the Exhibition would not have been complete 

 if a paper on that most noble of our fish, the salmon, had 

 been omitted. The importance of the salmon was very 

 great, supporting as it does a considerable industry, sup- 

 plying a vast amount of food, and affording the finest sport 

 which in this sporting country a sportsman could enjoy. 



SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES. 



IF the announcement in the Programme of this day's Con- 

 ference means that there is to be an account given of the 

 Salmon and Salmon Fisheries of the United Kingdom, I 

 fear that any information I can furnish will not do justice 

 to the subject ; for my knowledge of Salmon and Salmon 

 Fisheries is derived only from my experience as a pro- 

 prietor of salmon fisheries in one river in the south of 

 Scotland, viz., the Tweed ; and from having had some 

 share in managing the fisheries of the river, and of the 

 sea-coast on each side of its mouth. 



But as, according to the latest known returns, the Scotch 

 Salmon fisheries are, in value and produce, fully one-third of 

 those of the United Kingdom, and there are peculiarities 



