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SCOTLAND. * 
In Scotland the government is represented by the “Fishery 
Board for Scotland,” which has about the same relation to Scot- 
tish fisheries as the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has to 
the fisheries of England. 
The board has established a hatchery for marine fishes at 
Aberdeen, where it also conducts sundry scientific investigations. 
The species bred are plaice, lemon sole, turbot, cod and some 
other kinds. Plaice is the leading species and 39,690,000. of 
these were hatched in 1904. 
‘Fresh water species are not included in the work of the 
Fishery Board, but local boards and private parties engage in 
this work at some twenty stations. The most of them are salmon 
hatcheries, a few of them handling sea trout along with salmon; 
and two or three being commercial hatcheries dealing only with 
trout. At the fourteen salmon hatcheries operated in 1900 there 
were hatched about 3,565,000 eggs; at seventeen such establish- 
ments in 1904, the number of eggs handled was about 4,750,000 
—of which probably 4,000,009 or a little more were hatched. 
The number of salmon fry reared in 1909 is stated at 185,000 
for the whole of Scotland, and there is no evidence that more 
has been done in more recent years. It will be noted that for a 
country having eighty-one salmon rivers, the artificial work is on 
a small scale. It is indeed almost insignificant when compared 
with the vast numbers of eggs deposited by the salmon in the 
rivers in the natural way. In illustration may be cited the num- 
her spawning in the river Spey as observed by the bailiffs, whose 
duty it has been for many years, beginning in 1887, to count 
the number of spawning beds seen, the term “bed” being doubt- 
less equivalent to “nest” and including only the deposit of one 
par of fish. The number thus counted has ranged from 2,768 
in 1890 to 7,658 in 1902, and must indicate the laying of twenty- 
five millions to seventy millions of eggs in a single year in that 
river. 
There are no statistics showing the total product of the sal- 
mon fisheries of Scotland, but the Billingsgate Market in London 
receives great quantities of them, the receipts for the vear 1904 
*Por data about Scotch fishery matters we are indebted to W. L. 
Colderwood, Esq., Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, Edinburgh. 
