THE EARLY DAYS OF THE RIVER TWEED COMMISSIONERS: 1807 - 2007.

2007 1st edition. 8vo paperback (168 x 204mm). Ppvi,81. B/w photographs and illustrations, fold-out map at rear.

This is a good history of the early years of the River Tweed Commissioners, published to mark the RTC's bicentenery. "The Tweed is best governed by those who live by and love it. Despite pollution, poaching, disease, rapacious high seas netting and a number of other woes, Tweed's fish are today in good heart and for most if not all of the past 200 years [i.e. of the Commission's existence] it has been consistently amongst the most productive and world-renowned salmon fisheries on this planet." Chapters include: The mists of time - 1707; The Eighteenth Century; The Western Association; The 1807 Act; Commissioners and Overseers; 1817-1827; 1827-1837. References; Composition of the River Tweed Commission,2007; The Salmon Fisheries of Tweed, c.1896 (fold-out map). A fascinating piece of local history which has far wider relevance.