28 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



Scotland, and shall also extend five miles in front of the mouth of 

 the said river, and of the whole line of sea-coast within the boundary 

 points hereinbefore mentioned into the sea such distance towards 

 the sea to be computed by lines drawn at right angles to a line 

 drawn between the said northern and southern extremities ; and the 

 said limit on the south shall be deemed to include, and shall include, 

 the fishery now known as the Holy Island Station of the Goswick 

 Fisheries." 



By the General Scottish Act 26 and 27 Viet. c. 50, par. 4, power 

 was given to extend these limits northwards, and a bye-law was 

 accordingly issued in 1863 determining "That the limits of the 

 mouth or entrance of the said river Tweed shall extend northwards, 

 from the limits thereof, as defined in the said 'Tweed Fisheries 

 Amendment Act, 1859,' along the sea-coast to the boundaries between 

 the counties of Haddington and of Berwick, and shall also extend 

 into the sea five miles in front of that portion of the coast hereby 

 added to the limits of the said river Tweed, the distance to be 

 measured at right angles with the coast." 



Under the general Acts for Scotland the chief factor determined 

 by the limits of an estuary is the point at which fixed engines must 

 cease in their approach to a river mouth. In the case of the Tweed 

 the definition of the " mouth " last quoted does not, however, carry 

 this significance. The result of the last definition to the Hadding- 

 tonshire boundary is to extend the Commissioners' jurisdiction sea- 

 ward for five miles in pursuance of the early definitions relating to 

 the mouth, i.e. beyond what is technically known as the territorial 

 limit of three miles usual in the rest of the country. In so far as 

 fishing by means of fixed net is concerned the limits defined in the 

 1859 Tweed Act, first quoted, are the limits which determine the 

 proximity of such nets to the river. 



We may now consider the past and present condition of Tweed 

 fisheries, and the influences which seem to be at work in modifying 

 the results. A good many tables of statistics of the fisheries have 

 been published from time to time, and these are arranged in two 

 ways : 1st, the Estimated Annual Produce of the river fisheries apart 

 from the coast fisheries ; and 2nd, the Produce disposed of by the 

 Berwick Salmon Fisheries Company, Limited, a company which 

 certainly represent the largest proportion of netting results. The 

 former were prepared by Mr. Paulin, for many years Secretary of 

 the Berwick Company ; but it appears that owing to an error in the 

 figures on which his estimates were based, which occurred about the 



