of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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' west bank of the Water of Sark, at Sark Foot, in the county of 

 ' Dumfries, to Burgh Head in the county of Cumberland.* Within 

 1 the aforesaid limits the Solway Firth should include the sea and 

 ' the rivers so far as the tide flows and ebbs. 



* Outside these limits — 



1 (a) All the rivers which are entirely Scotch should be placed 



' under the Scotch laws. 

 ' (b) All the rivers which are entirely English should be 



' placed under the English laws. 

 • (c) The Esk, which is partly Scotch and partly English, 



' should continue under the English law, adminis- 



' tered by Scotch Courts as regards the portion of 



' the Esk in Scotland, and the Scotch Acts so far as 



' it is concerned should be expressly repealed. 

 ■ IV. Inside these limits — 



' (a) The annual close season should commence on the 10th 



' of September, and continue till the 15th of March, 



' both inclusive.t 

 ' (5) The weekly close season should commence at the low 



' water next after 6 a.m. on Saturday, and continue 



' for four complete tides. 

 1 (c) The mesh for taking salmon should be not less than If 



' inches from knot to knot, or 7 inches round. 

 ' The above recommendations are all intended to assimilate the 

 1 law. In addition to them we recommend that — 



* V. The licence duty for a whammel net should in future be £5 

 ' for the first 400 yards or part of 400 yards, and £1 additional for 

 ' every additional 80 yards or part of 80 yards. 



' VI. The Lords of the Admiralty should be requested to buoy out 

 1 the boundary between Scotland and England from Sark Foot to 

 ' the centre of the line drawn from Carsethorn of Arbigland to 

 ' the Hotel of Skinberness, charging the cost of the work on the 

 ' Nith, Annan, Esk, and Eden.J 



4 VII. East of this line all Paidle nets should be declared illegal, 

 ' or no Paidle net should be used which, if it had a coop or cover, 

 ' exceeded 3 feet in height ; or which, if it had no coop or cover, 

 ' exceeded 4 feet in height ; but compliance with this regulation 

 1 should not make any Paidle net legal which would otherwise be 

 ' illegal. 



' VIII. The 25th section of the Scotch Salmon Fisheries Act, 

 ' 1868, should be extended to the Scotch shores of the Solway. 



* ' Power should be given to some competent persons to fix stakes or other marks 

 ' on the foreshores of the Esk and the Eden to indicate these limits.' 



t ' It is to be understood that these two recommendations stand and fall together. 

 1 In the event of the weekly close season, for instance, being reduced from four to 

 1 three tides, an alternative which the Legislature might possibly prefer, we recom- 

 ' mend that the annual close season should commence on the 3rd of September and 

 ' terminate on the 23rd of March. In the event of the weekly close season being 

 ' reduced to two tides, we recommend that the annual close season should commence 

 1 on the 27th of August and terminate on the 31st of March. Of the three alterna- 

 1 tives, however, we prefer that in the text.' 



t As without a map the proposed new limits of the Solway Firth would not be 

 generally intelligible, a map is given in Appendix No. VI. 



