Appendices to Thirteenth Annual Report 



great dissatisfaction to owners and occupiers of the different fishing, 

 and is an encouragement to poachers, while on the English side of mid- 

 channel no one can fish for salmon without a licence from Eden 

 Fishery Board. On the English side of the Solway the weekly and 

 annual close times differ from those on Scotch side, which also 

 encourages poaching. It would be a great advantage for the fishings if 

 the law was altered to prevent fishing between low water mark and 

 mid-channel on the Scotch side of the Solway without permission, and 

 to make both the weekly and annual close times the same. It may 

 be added that fishing between low water and mid-channel by parties 

 having no permission from the Scotch proprietors, while quite illegal 

 according to existing statutes, is done with comparative impunity ow- 

 ing to the great difficulty of detection, and so poaching is systematically 

 carried on by licencees of the Eden Fishery Board who obtain their licences 

 not for the purpose of fishing in the Eden District but to enable them 

 to carry out their poaching practices in Scotch waters. 



