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of direct representation of the fishing trades, and 

 this theoretical disadvantage appealed strongly to 

 the Committee, who were, in addition, strongly 

 impressed with the idea of constituting a sym- 

 metrical system of fisheries administration in the 

 United Kingdom. " At the present moment," 

 they report,^ " while in England there are sea- 

 fishery committees, there is no fishery board ; in 

 Scotland, there is a fishery board, and there are 

 no district fishery committees. Furthermore, the 

 district fishery committees in England, and the 

 fishery board in Scotland, both labour under one 

 and the same disadvantage, that of being without 

 any directly elected representative element." They 

 urged strongly, therefore, that measures should be 

 taken to assimilate the two systems to each other ; 

 that the fishery boards should be partly constituted 

 of representatives of the local committees, and that 

 the committees themselves should be directly elected 

 from representatives of the fishing interest, in what 

 manner they did not state. It is, perhaps, not 

 to be regretted that this recommendation did not 

 wholly commend itself to the Legislature, and that, 

 in so far as it was realised, it had no practical 

 effect. 



Certain enactments were, however, made. The 

 English Sea- Fisheries Regulation Act was amended 

 by the Fisheries Act of 1891,^ and by a further 



1 Report, Select Committee, 1893, p. v. 



2 54 and 55 Vict. c. 37. 



