RESULTS OF SALMON MARKING | *~ 83 
Helmsdale fish took 506 days to increase 10 lb., 
nearly double the increase, but in almost six times as 
many days. Probably, however, the second fish had 
spawned in the interval. The majority of the coast 
recaptures show movement in the opposite direction 
from those two similar records. Five fish have 
followed a very similar course in going from the 
Deveron right round out of the Moray Firth in an 
easterly and southerly direction to the neighbour- 
hood of Aberdeen. The intervals between marking 
and recapture are 88, 109, 122, 126, and 187 days, 
and the increases in weight respectively 44, 33, 23, 
9, and 43 lb. In the last-mentioned fish the 
estimate of weight could alone be obtained, as the 
mark was not noticed till the fish was displayed in 
a fish shop in Newquay, Cornwall. The increase of 
9 lb. in the kelt weight in four months is consider- 
able, more especially since the fish was a 16 lb. male: 
kelt when marked. 
Twenty coast recaptures are charted in the twenty- 
fourth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for 
Scotland, and of these, fifteen show a southerly and 
easterly and only five a movement in the opposite 
direction. It is unwise to lay too much stress upon 
a result which after all is deduced from a limited 
number of recaptures, but the trend of the currents. 
corresponds with the direction in which the majority 
have travelled. 
Before completing the records which are obtained. 
from kelt marking, we have to deal with the fish 
which are afterwards recaptured as kelts. These 
fall into two classes: first the fish which have been 
