38 THE LIFE OF THE SALMON 
SALMON. GRILSE. 
SEASON, Total Total 
No. | Weight Want, for Percent-|| yo, | Weight bigs Sad Percent- 
in lb. period of age.* in lb. period of age.* 
7 years. 7 years. 
1872 | 3,981] 59,308 — —_ 5,923) 27,338 _— —_ 
1873 | 4,200] 48,895 — —_— 7,239) 34,598 — — 
1874 | 8,100} 88,398 —_ _ 6,187) 27,219 — _ 
1875 | 5,961] 63,987 — —_ 4,714) 20,501 — —_ 
1876 | 2,873] 33,788 — —_— 9,184] 39,297 _ = 
1877 | 4,811] 55,086 _— _ 7,737| 37,556 — _— 
1878 | 8,918] 116,308 | 465,765 | — || 3,350] 14,446 | 200,955] — 
1879 | 1,897] 22,964 _— 7,284) 31,141 _— — 
1880 | 4,178] 43,587 —_ — 5,410] 23,720 —_ — 
1881 | 4,873} 47,191 _ _— 11,400] 49,349 _ _— 
1882 | 6,530] 62,717 _ _ 7,415) 32,413 — _ 
1883 | 6,886] 70,384 — _ 18,852) 70,555 — —_ 
1884 | 5,424) 64,866 — _— 6,129) 27,817 _— _ 
1885 | 4,597] 53,989 | 365,698 | 78-5 || 15,129) 73,958 | 308,953 | 153°7 
1886 | 6,370) 68,536 — —_ 9,583] 39,502 — — 
1887 | 5,052) 55,535 —_ — || 14,847} 60,644 — _ 
1888 | 7,843) 83,292 —_— — 12,905) 58,653 — —_— 
1889 | 5,623) 60,573 — —_ 9,336] 38,379 —_ —_ 
1890 | 7,085] 66,114 _ —_ 9,220) 43,140 —_— — 
1891 | 9,477/ 107,566 — —_ 11,775) 58,318 _— —_— 
1892 | 8,594) 88,932) 530,548 | 113-9 |] 11,329) 48,620 | 347,256 | 172°8 
1893 | 6,795] 71,185 —_— _— 5,068) 18,131 _ _— 
1894 | 4,581) 45,932 _— —_— 6,277| 28,020 —_ _— 
1895 | 7,002] 75,603 — — || 14,938) 76,836 — —_ 
1896 | 10,790} 122,746 — — 9,766) 41,426 _— _ 
1897 | 4,834] 50,218 — —_— 4,060) 16,948 —_ _— 
* The weight for the first septennial period is taken at 100, and for the later 
periods as proportional parts of the first. 
There are 229,957 grilse as against 157,275 salmon. 
I have also figures for 1904, showing in like 
manner the grilse and salmon caught on the coast of 
Caithness in the Thurso district. In July of that 
year there were 2032 grilse as compared with only 
290 salmon. The Thurso is not conspicuous as a 
grilse river. 
The seine nets worked in the narrow waters of a 
river are more deadly engines than the fixed nets on 
the coast—a statement which, I suppose, very many 
