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Report on Salmon Fisheries. 



' Xo person shall buy, sell, or expose for sale any salmon or part of a salmon 

 between the 3rd day of September and the 1st day of February following, both 

 inclusive ; and any person acting in contravention of this section shall forfeit 

 any salmon or part of any salmon so bought, sold, or exposed for sale, or in 

 his possession for sale, and shall incur a penalty not exceeding £2 for every 

 such salmon or part of any salmon. But nothing herein contained shall apply 

 to any person buying, selling, or exposing for sale, or having in his possession 

 for sale, any salmon which has been cured, salted, pickled, or dried beyond the 

 limits of the United Kingdom, or if within the limits of the United Kingdom 

 between 1st day of February and the 3rd day of November in any year or any 

 clean fresh salmon caught within the limits of this act, provided its capture by 

 any net, instrument, or device other than a rod and line, if within the United 

 Kingdom, was lawful at the time and in the place where it was caught ; but the 

 burden of proving that any clean salmon so bought, sold, exposed for sale, or 

 in the possession of any person for sale, was captured abroad, or lawfully 

 captured within the United Kingdom, shall lie on the person selling, or exposing 

 for sale, or having in his possession for sale any such salmon ; and the burden 

 of proving that any cured, salted, pickled, or dried salmon was cured, salted, 

 pickled or dried elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, or if within the United 

 Kingdom, then between the 1st day of February and the 3rd day of November 

 in any year, shall lie upon the person in whose possession for sale such salmon 

 is found.' 



Prevention of It was stated that what is wanted in England, in addition to the 

 saimon^EnS P owers they already possess for preventing illicit traffic in salmon, 

 land. ° is an extension of the powers, which the Fishmongers Company at 

 present have to search for and seize unseasonable salmon in any 

 part of London, to the whole of England ; to enable the market 

 authorities to enforce within their jurisdiction the Acts relating to 

 the sale of fish ; to strengthen the hands of the Fisheries Depart- 

 ment of the Board of Trade, especially with regard to places not 

 included in any fishery district; and to apply the Acts restraining 

 the exportation and sale of salmon to trout wherever a close time 

 for that fish exists. 



On returning from London, Mr Young gave an account of what 

 had taken place — as above stated — at the conference between 

 Mr Berrington and Mr Towse and himself ; and the Board, after 

 carefully considering the matter, drew up ' Notes for draft Bill to 

 put down illicit traffic in salmon/ and forwarded them to the 

 Secretary for Scotland on the 27th of February last. 



Since Mr Young's conference with Mr Berrington and Mr Towse, 

 Mr Young has had a letter from Mr Berrington, dated 1st April 

 1889, stating that the Irish Inspectors have been written to on the 

 subject, so that the Bill to prevent the illicit traffic in salmon will 

 probably apply to the United Kingdom. 



