I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of Your
               Grace's Despatch N 77 of the 
9 May last, enclosing a
               memorandum from 
M Ffennell on the subject of the protection of the Salmon Fisheries of
British British Columbia
 British Columbia, and a subsequent correspondence with that gentleman.
               
               I have also lately received the Fishery Act and official
               Reports bearing upon the matter in which Your Grace requested
               the Governor of Canada to send to me.
               
            
            
               I have to thank Your Grace for those valuable documents,
               which afford so much useful information
on
 on the methods of
               preserving and regulating Fisheries.