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and Professor D'Arcy Thompson, C.B., together 

 with an able staff, the Fishery Board for Scotland 

 has done much thorough and useful work. The 

 fisheries of Ireland suffered from the economic 

 disasters which overtook Ireland during the 

 middle of the nineteenth century, and reached 

 perhaps its lowest ebb in 1890. The revival 

 in industry, with which the name of Sir Horace 

 Plunkett is so indissolubly connected, has in- 

 cluded in its scope the Irish fisheries. The 

 fishery branch of the Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction receives an annual 

 grant of 10,000, and under the guidance of 

 the Rev. S. Green and Mr. E. W. L. Holt, is 

 already doing much to promote the fishing of 

 the well-stocked Irish seas. 



The English official fishery staff seems to 

 have sprung from the recommendations of the 

 Salmon Fishery Act of 1861. To carry out 

 the regulations over fresh-water fisheries recom- 

 mended by that Act, two Inspectors were ap- 

 pointed, and these were at first attached to 

 the Home Office ; a further Act in 1886 trans- 

 ferred these Inspectors to the Board of Trade, 

 and extended their duties so as to include the 

 preparation of Annual Reports on Sea-fisheries 



