§ Mr. O'SULLIVANasked if the sale of salmon legally caught by rod and line in Ireland is prohibited in England between the 3rd September and 2nd February; and, if so, will he confer with the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries with a view to the removal of the restriction which renders useless to a number of fishermen of the poorer class in Ireland the earlier opening of the angling season recently sanctioned by his Department?
§ Mr. BIRRELLUnder the provisions of the statute law rod-caught salmon cannot be sold in England between 3rd September and 1st February. The only recent case in which an angling season beginning earlier than the 1st February was fixed by the Department affects part of the Killarney district, and the small amount of fish from such part that could be sent to England before the 1st February would not justify any change in an enactment which has for its object restriction on the sale of poached fish and the general protection of the salmon fisheries.