CHAPTER V 



THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF 1 893 



It will be remembered that the Commission of 

 1883 made certain recommendations which re- 

 sulted in the imposition of restrictions on the 

 areas on which trawling might legally be practised. 

 Other recommendations were also made which 

 had a very important effect on the future of 

 sea-fisheries administration. At the time when 

 the report was issued the Scottish Fishery Board 

 had been in existence for about three years, and 

 was actively engaged in the administration of the 

 fisheries under its control. There was, however, 

 no fisheries office in England. Under an Act of 

 1861^ two inspectors were appointed by the 

 Home Secretary, whose duties were to undertake 

 the inquiries necessary for the administration of 

 the fresh-water fisheries, and to lay annual reports 

 before Parliament, which were to include statistical 

 accounts of those fisheries, as far as that was 

 practicable, and were supposed to contain sugges- 



1 Salmon Fishery Act, 24 and 25 Vict. c. 19. 



