SALMON DISEASE COMMISSION. 



REPORT 



ON THE 



RECENT OUTBREAK OF DISEASE AMONG 



SALMON 



IN 



CERTAIN RIVERS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



Home Office, Whitehall, 

 Sik, 2nd August 1880. 



We, the undersigned Commissioners appointed to inquire 

 into the causes of the disease which has recently appeared among 

 the salmon of the Tweed, Eden, and other rivers of England and 

 Scotland, and into the steps which it may be expedient to take to 

 prevent its propagation in the rivers in which it has already 

 appeared, and its extension to other rivers, have the honour to 

 inform you that we have held public inquiries at — 



Dumfries on the Nith. 



Annan on the Annan. 



Kirkcudbright on the Dee. 



Ayr on the Ayr. 



Keswick on the Derwent (Cumberland). 



Carlisle on the Eden. 



Melrose, Kelso, Cornhill, and Berwick, on the Tweed. 

 - Girvan on the Girvan. 



Colmonell on the Stinchar. 



Newton Stewart on the Cree. 



Lancaster on the Lune. 



And also at Edinburgh. 

 We have collected, in other ways, a variety of information on 

 the subject, and we are now enabled to make the following report. 

 A salmon affected by the disease bears a very different aspect 

 from a fish unaffected by it. The scales are covered more or less 

 by patches of a fungus resembling, when dry, moist brown paper. 

 If the fish is placed in water the fibres of the fungus will separate 

 one from the other and the appearance presented will be that of 

 very delicate cotton wool. Hence in some parts of the country 



