SALMON OVA. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE FLUCTUATIONS OF LORD GREY'S KIN- 

 FAUNS SALMON FISHINGS ON THE TAY, 1788 TO 1845. 



By ROBERT BUIST. 



ANNUAL CAPTURE OF SALMON AND GRILSE. 

 For a period of 10 years, before the use of stake nets in the estuary. 



For 10 years with stake nets on the coast, 

 tion Act 



and before the Naviga- 



In order to show the destructive effect of stake nets 

 (that is, fixed engines) by excessive capture near the 

 mouth of the river, the quantity of salmon caught in 

 the river at Kingfauns during the ten years that stake 

 nets remained was diminished to 46,663 salmon, but 

 for the ten years after their removal the quantity in- 



