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Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, who have valuable salmon fishings 

 on the coast and in the river mouth, analogous to those of the 

 Berwick Salmon Fisheries Company, voluntarily subscribe to the 

 funds of the Association who have carried out the negotiations, and 

 who lease the nets for the purpose of removal. The success of the 

 operations is undoubted. No one in the Upper Dee would now 

 dream of again putting in a net, There is no reason to suppose 

 that a similar and gradual action in Tweed would bring about any 

 dissimilar result. Fishings which are now valuable in autumn 

 would become valuable also in spring, and the proposals already on 

 foot for the purification of the river, which I have already referred 

 to, would go hand in hand with the increase of Tweed salmon. 



