On various parts of the north-east coast, stake-nets have 

 been erected, and every where with the most complete suc- 

 cess. At Woodston, the property of Lord Chief Com- 

 missioner Adam; at Duninald, the property of Mr. Ark- 

 lay ; at Rossie, and several other stations within a very 

 few miles of each other, on the open sea coast near Mon- 

 trose, the fishery has been carried on with remarkable 

 effect. Four years ago there was not a stake-net on that 

 coast ; and already, those erected produce a revenue to 

 the proprietors, of about L.4,000 yearly. But this is 

 a small sum in comparison with what may yet be re- 

 ceived. The fishery is in its infancy. Those stations, 

 even, at which the nets are erected, have been only par- 

 tially fished. Their full value is thus still unknown. 

 And there are a great many other stations on the same 

 coast, admirably fitted for the fishery, which have not 

 been tried. 



On the Aberdeenshire coast, in like manner, the fishery 

 has made considerable progress. Between the Don and 

 the Ythan, it is understood that eleven stake-nets were 

 lately erected, all of which have been attended with more 

 or less success. And the invention is also employed at 

 various places on the coast towards Peterhead, in the 

 Murray Frith, and in Cromarty Frith. 



But the practicability of this description of fishing has 

 remained so completely unknown until the present time, 

 that although, in all the rivers, fishing grants have existed 

 from the earliest ages, even at places where the fishery 

 is hardly worthy of attention, yet the right to the sea 

 faking is still in the Crown. And at this moment, there 

 is under consideration of the Barons of Exchequer, a 

 number of applications by landed proprietors, for grants 

 of a right of fishing on the sea coast opposite to their re- 



