5 io SALMON LEG IS LA TION IN SCO TLAND. 



inspectors, but whose annual report will be presented to 

 the Fishery Board, instead of direct to the Home Secre- 

 tary. In terms of this provision, Mr. Archibald Young has 

 been appointed inspector. Every one who has taken any 

 notice of the progress of salmon legislation during the last 

 fifteen or twenty years must feel that Mr. Young is the 

 right man in the right place. The Government must, 

 however, support the inspector and the Fishery Board in 

 any recommendations they may make, if the full benefit is 

 to be derived from the system. We are far from resting 

 satisfied with what has been done, though it is a great step 

 gained ; nor do we forget that the appointment of an 

 inspector is only a concession to Scotland of a clamant 

 right, which it is no credit to the different Governments 

 that she should have been deprived of so long, seeing that 

 her sister countries, and particularly England, whose 

 fisheries are so much less valuable, have possessed the boon 

 for twenty years. 



SUPERINTENDENCE OF SALMON FISHERIES BY 

 FISHERY BOARD. 



With regard to the appointment of the Fishery Board to 

 superintend the salmon fisheries, we will venture to make a 

 few observations, as we are not convinced that this arrange- 

 ment is the best that could be made. In the first place the 

 Fishery Board has quite enough to do with the supervision 

 of the enormous industry into which the herring and other 

 sea fisheries have developed. These fisheries, with all 

 their cognate questions, are a special study of themselves, 

 and are, besides, at present in a state requiring much and 

 earnest attention. Then, from the other point of view, we 

 think that the salmon fisheries would have much more 



