§ MR. CLAUDE LOWTHER (Cumberland, Eskdale)To ask th First Lord of the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Government to take any steps to alter the state of the Fishery Laws on both sides of the Solway, seeing that such remedial legislation has been recommended by the three last Royal Commissions on the Salmon Fisheries.
(Answered by Mr. A. J. Balfour). Something has been done to assimilate the 1316 bye-laws of the Fishery Board for Scotland with those made by the Cumberland Local Fisheries Committee relating to sea fisheries; but to carry out the recommendations of the Royal Commissioners (involving the constitution of a separate Solway authority) would require legislation, and that legislation, whether controversial or not, could evidently not be introduced at present.