224 THE SALMON RIVERS OF SCOTLAND 



have been taken, the poorest grilse year being 1880, when only 209 

 grilse and 641 salmon were obtained. The figures, while showing 

 fluctuations for periods of years, do not point to any material 

 reduction in the stock of fish, although naturally when other nets 

 were fished in the immediate neighbourhood, the sweep-nets showed 

 poor returns. 



