CHAPTER XIII 
THE ECONOMIC AND SPORTING VALUE 
OF SALMON 
Economic Value of Salmon—Salmon-Angling—Weight of Salmon. 
Tue excellence of salmon as food, and the enormous 
productiveness of the fish in those rivers where they have 
received some measure of protection and encouragement, 
. __ have rendered salmon-fisheries the object of constant 
conomic . . 
value of attention on the part of the Legislature from the 
Salmon: earliest times whereof there is any record. There 
can be no doubt that they form an exceedingly valuable part of 
the natural wealth. Taking Scotland alone, the rateable value 
of the salmon-fisheries in those districts where Fishery Boards 
have been formed was assessed in the year 1898 at £107,271. 
The weight of salmon carried to market by Scottish railways 
and steamships amounted to 4,230 tons in 1895, and to 2,093 
tons in 1898. The number of boxes of Scottish salmon 
delivered at Billingsgate alone in 1895 was 25,364, and in 1899 
it was 15,411. The average price in each month of the open 
season of 1899 was as follows :— 
Sy 
February 2 54 per lb. 
March . 2 9 5 
April a af 5 
May 208 Oe, 
June rT +6 is 
July I 22 5 
August . Ts * 
September 2 Oe) ak. 
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