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Appendices to Fifth Annual Report 



NOTE VI.— APPENDIX G. 



The following Table contains a statement of the number of boxes of Scotch 

 Salmon sent to Billingsgate Market, in each year, from 1834 to 1886, 

 both years inclusive. Average weight of each box, 112 lbs. 



Year. 



Boxes of Scotch Salmon. 



Year. 



Boxes of Scotch Salmon. 



1834 



30,650 



1861 



12,337 



1835 



42,330 



1862 



22,796 



1836 



24,570 



1863 



24,297 



1837 



32,300 



1864 



22,603 



1838 



21, 400 



1865 



19,009 . . 



1839 



16,340 



1866 



21,725 



1840 



15,160 



1867 



23,006 



1841 



28,500 



1868 



28,020 



1842 



39,417 



1869 



20,474 



1843 



30,300 



1870 



20,648 



1844 



28,178 



1871 



23,390 



1845 



31,062 



1872 



24,404 



1846 



• 25,510 



1873 



30,181 



1847 



20,112 



1874 



32,180 



1848 



22,525 



1875 



20,375 



1849 



23,690 



1876 



34,655 



1850 



13,940 



1877 



28,189 



1851 



11,593 



1878 



26,465 



1852 



13,044 



1879 



13,929 



1853 



19,485 



1880 



17,457 



1854 



23,194 



1881 



2^905 



1855 



18,197 



1882 



22,968 



1856 



15,438 



1883 



35,506 



1857 



18,654 



1884 



27,219 



1858 



21,564 



1885 



30,362 



1859 



15,823 



1886 



23,407 



1860 



15,870 







During the first seven years, in the above Table, the average number of 

 boxes of salmon sent from Scotland to London was 26,107 ; during the second 

 period, 29,011; during the third period, ending in 1854, 18,210; during the 

 period from 1869 to 1875, 24,478 ; and during the last period of seven years — 

 1876 to 1882, both inclusive — 22,509 boxes. During the four years that have 

 since elapsed, the average has been 29,127 boxes. The best year in the Table 

 was 1835, when 42,330 boxes were sent to London; and the worst was 1851, 

 when only 11,593 boxes were sent. 



NOTE VII. — APPENDIX G. 



THE ISLAND OF RUM. 



During my inspection of the Salmon Fisheries in the Inner and Outer 

 Hebrides, on which I had the honour to report to the Fishery Board in the 

 course of last year, I did not visit the picturesque and interesting island 

 of Rum, because it does not eontain any salmon river. I have recently, 

 however, received some notes on that island through the kindness of a well- 

 known naturalist, Mr Harvie Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., &c, which show that 

 its waters yield good sea -trout and yellow-trout fishing, and also that it presents 



