MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, as representing the Woods and Forests Commissioners, if he can now state when the regulation will be issued under which the rights of the Orkney public to free fair rod fishing on the foreshores will be preserved.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HAYES FISHER,) FulhamI understand this Question to relate to the right to fish for salmon and sea trout on the shores of the Islands of hey, Fara, and Ryaa little. The issue of regulations is postponed until an option of purchase f the right of fishing, now held by the proprietor of the islands is exercised or allowed to lapse. The question of purchase has to be settled by Martinmas, 1903. Meanwhile the Commissioners of Woods understand that persons desiring to fish with rod have found no difficulty in getting leave form the proprietor who rents the right from the Crown.