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As the salmon disease has already been a subject for 

 separate discussion at these Conference meetings, I abstain 

 from any remarks on it, beyond mentioning that during 

 the last three years, our bailiffs have drawn out of the 

 Tweed and its tributaries, altogether 27,100 salmon, grilse, 

 and bull-trout, either dead or dying, in order to bury them. 

 The value of these, at an average weight of 7 Ibs. each, 

 and an average price of is. per pound, amounts to about 

 20,000 sterling. 



(5) The Commissioners who manage the Tweed fisheries, 

 are all persons whose income from fishings exceeds 30 

 yearly, or who possess a river frontage of half a mile. 

 They form a numerous body, and hold a meeting once a 

 year, when they appoint a Committee of Management, 

 consisting of twelve of their own number, resident on or 

 near the river, and known to take an interest in fishery 

 matters. His Grace the Duke of Roxburghe is Chairman 

 of the Committee. 



In other parts of Scotland, the management of the salmon 

 fisheries is, or rather ought to be, in District Fishery 

 Boards, which were appointed to be constituted by two 

 Acts passed in the years 1862 and 1868. But the 

 proprietors of salmon fishings so much disliked the 

 constitution of these Boards, that when the sheriffs of 

 counties summoned them to meet, to elect Boards for the 

 different districts, very few proprietors responded to the call. 

 Scotland had been, by three Government Commissioners, 

 previously divided into 105 districts, each comprising one 

 or more salmon rivers ; but the result was that no more 

 than 30 Boards were formed, and during the succeeding 

 ten years, eight of these Boards ceased to meet, so that 

 there are now altogether not more than 22 Boards in existence. 



To show the present state of things, I may quote the 



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