APPENDIX I 



REPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL PUBLIC INQUIRIES 

 INTO THE CONDITION OF THE FISHERIES 

 HELD IN MODERN TIMES 



Only the more important Reports are mentioned, but 

 all those of interest to the general student of the sea- 

 fishing industry are included. Many other documents 

 of special interest may be traced in the classified indices 

 of Parliamentary Papers. The short titles are those by 

 which the Reports are usually known. 



1837. Royal Commission on Irish Fisheries. — 



" Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State 

 of the Irish Fisheries." Reports I. and II. ; pp. xxiv + 

 452 and pp. V + 71. 



1863. Royal Commission on Herring Trawling. 



— " Report of the Royal Commission on the OperatioA 

 of the Acts relating to Trawling for Herrings on the Coasts 

 of Scotland." Report and Appendix, pp. 37 ; Evidence, 

 pp. 34. (This is the Report by Dr Lyon Playfair, Prof. 

 Huxley, and Col. Maxwell which led to the repeal of the 

 repressive herring trawling legislation. It contains Prof. 

 Allman's account of the natural history of the herring.) 



1866. Royal Commission of 1863. — "Report of 

 the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Sea- 

 Fisheries of the United Kingdom." Report and Appen- 

 dix, pp. cvii + 72 ; Evidence, pp. 1409. (Historically the 

 most important inquiry of modern times. The appendix 



