No. 77

I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the copy of a
Memorandum on the subject of the protection of the Salmon Fisheries of
British Columbia which has been submitted to me by Mr Ffennell a Member of a late Fishery Commission in this Country. I also enclose copies of a subsequent correspondence with that Gentleman and I have to
invite your attention to a subject which will probably ere long become
one of some importance to the Colony. I have requested the Governor of
Canada to forward to you the official documents bearing upon the matter mentioned in Mr Ffennell's letter of the 19th of April, and in the
meantime I enclose a report of the British Commissioners which may
probably afford you information that will be useful to you in legislating
on the Fisheries of British Columbia.