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Fifth Annual Beport of the 



other Har- A list is given below of other harbours for which application has 

 which f A li ^ een ma( ^ e to tne B° ar d f° r m their construction or improve- 

 cation for Aid ment, but as to which we have as yet come to no conclusion, except 

 has been made. as regards Fraserburgh. The merits of this harbour are beyond 

 question, but it does not appear to us that, looking at the small 

 amount of funds at the disposal of the Board, they should be drawn 

 upon merely to complete so large an undertaking which is already 

 nearly finished. 



Ness Harbour. As formerly reported, the Board recently built a harbour at Ness 

 in Lewis, at a cost of about £6000, of which the trustees of the late 

 Sir James Matheson generously contributed £1500. Applications 

 have been made for the construction of other harbours in that 

 Harbours at Island. It is desired that one should be built at Bayable, Portna- 

 na y uran an? S urau > anc ^ Gress ; or, if this cannot be done, then at one of these 

 Gress. an ' an places. The erection of three harbours would cost a very large sum 

 of money. The expense of one at Portnaguran, for instance, which, 

 in all the circumstances of the case, we think is the best site if only 

 one harbour is to be provided, into which boats could enter at all 

 states of the tide, has been roughly estimated at from £20,000 to 

 £28,000; but the Board are quite unable to provide this money, even 

 with a large contribution from the locality. 



List of Harbours above referred to :- 



List of Har- 

 bours above 

 referred to. 



No progress 

 made for con- 

 stituting, by- 

 Provisional 

 Orders, Local 

 Authorities to 

 manage 

 Harbours. 



Proposed 

 general Mea- 

 sure to enable 

 Fishermen to 

 organise a 

 Local Autho- 

 rity for this 

 purpose. 



1. Auchmithie, Forfarshire. 



2. Avoch, Ross-shire. 



3. Ballantrae, Ayrshire. 



4. Banff, Banffshire. 



5. Burn mouth, Berwickshire. 



6. Cairnbulg, Aberdeenshire. 



7. Coldingham, Berwickshire. 

 8 Cowie, Kincardineshire. 



9. Dunbeath, Caithness-shire. 



10. Eyemouth, Berwickshire. 



11. Fair Isle, Shetland. 



12. Foula Island, Shetland. 



13. Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. 



14. Girvan, Ayrshire. 



15. Golspie, Sutherlandshire. 



16. Inverallochy, Aberdeenshire. 



17. Keiss, Caithness-shire. 



18. Kinlochbervie, Sutherland- 



shire. 



19. Lochbuy, Island of Mull. 



20. Port Errol, Aberdeenshire. 

 21 Port Hopeman, Elginshire. 



22. Portmahomack, Ross-shire. 



23. St Andrews, Fifeshire. 



24. St Colmbs, Aberdeenshire. 



25. Scoraig, Ross-shire. 



26. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. 



27. Stroma Island, Pentland Firth. 



28. Tyree. 



29. Waternish, Island of Skye. 



No further progress has been made with the question, adverted 

 to in our Fourth Annual Report (p. lxxiv), of constituting, by means 

 of Provisional Orders, local authorities for the management of 

 harbours which have been built to a greater or less extent with 

 money granted by this Board from the public funds. The recent 

 decision of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury to assist in the 

 formation of fishing harbours by loans at 3^ per cent, for the term 

 of 50 years, wherever the security was fairly sufficient, gives a 

 new importance to this subject; and we have come to. the con- 

 clusion, that a general measure, not very extensive in its scope and 

 purely permissive in its character, ought to be passed for the 

 purpose of enabling fishermen from amongst themselves to organise, 

 under the name of District Fishery Boards, a local authority, which 



