of the Fishery Board for Scotland. Ivii ' 



of the quinquennial period 1909-1913 with the average, and then the 

 figures for last season. 





Average, 

 1894 to 1898. 



Average, 

 1899 to 1903. 



Average, 

 1904 to 1908. 



Year 1909. 



Year 1910. 



District. 



Tons. 



w 



6 







Tons. 



Cwts. 







Tons. 



1 Cwts, 



O" 





Tons. 



6 



& 





Tons. 



1 Cwts. 







a B e r w i c k to 



Cairnbulg Point, 

 b Cairnbulg Point 



to Cape Wratli, 

 c Cape Wrath to 



Glasgow, . . . 

 d Glasgow to the 



Border, . . . 



1,206 



900 



403 

 260 



18 

 17 



3 



1 

 3 

 1 



2 



1 



6 

 21 

 6 



839 

 737 

 274 

 183 



1 



10 

 18 

 6 



2 

 3 

 1 

 1 



9 

 17 

 27 

 19 



8S7 

 608 

 209 

 160 



8 



13 

 3 

 9 



2 

 1 



3 

 3 



24 

 19 

 6 

 15 



1,018 



705 

 229 

 231 



10 

 18 

 15 

 13 



o 



3 



19 



22 

 20 

 6 



934 

 538 

 207 

 189 



2 

 8 

 8 

 11 



2 

 3 



1 



26 

 21 

 26 



Totals, . . . 



2,771 







6 



2,034 



17 



1 



16 



1,865 



15 



3 



8 



2,185 



18 



2 



17 



1,869 



10 



3 



18 





Year 1911. 



Year 1912. 



Year 1913. 



Average, 

 1909 to 1913. 



Year 1914. 



District. 



Tons. 



6 



X 





Tons. 



Cwts. 







Tons. 



Cwts. 







Tons. 



O 



O' 





Tons. 



Cwts. 1 





CO 







a B e r w i c k ' to 



Cairnbulg Point, 

 b Cairnbulg Point 



to Cape Wrath, 

 c Cape Wratli to 



Glasgow, . , . 

 d Glasgow to the 



Border, . . . 



1,112 

 691 

 209 

 206 



12 

 17 

 14 



_ 

 1 



13 

 15 

 10 



950 

 679 

 226 

 133 



15 

 18 

 4 

 18 



- 



3 



9 

 16 

 21 



1,061 

 707 

 152 

 96 



12 

 4 



8 



3 



23 

 10 



1,015 

 664 

 205 

 171 



5 

 14 



2 

 13 



3 

 1 



17 



3 

 7 

 3 



1,030 

 710 

 161 

 74 



14 

 1 



6 



2 



1 



3 

 3 



7 



20 

 8 



Totals, . . . 



2,220 



4 





17 



1,990 



16 



2 



18 



2,017 



5 



3 



27 



2,056 



15 



1 



3 



1,976 



5 







It has usually been noticed by the Inspector of Salmon Fisheries 

 that when one section of the coast is above or below the average, all 

 parts of that section are similarly affected, and it very frequently has 

 been noticed that different sections are similarly affected, so that a 

 drop at one part of the coast commonly means a drop elsewhere. The 

 past season seems to have been an exception in this respect. Some 

 districts undoubtedly did badly while other districts expeiienced quite 

 a successful season. 



It has more than once been pointed out that declines of recent 

 years are largely due to an absence of grilse, or, as in the case of season 

 1913, to an absence of both grilse and sea trout. 



The season 1914 was remarkable in some locaKties for the absence 

 of grilse, yet in the upper part of the Moray Firth the coast nets did 

 well after the grilse began to run. From the Nairn District it 

 is reported that the sea nets had a catch above the average. Our 

 own experimental nets, w'hicli were ,'^.et on the shore of the Black 

 Isle near llosemarkic, shared in this good run of grilse, and 55 of the 

 marked fish were recaptured by the Nairn nets. A report of the 

 results obtained is published in the form of a separate paper by the 

 Inspector.* 



Grilse and sea trout appear to have been very scarce in the Solway 

 and on the southern section of the Ayrshire coast. The conditions 

 under which Salmon Fisheries are carried on in the Solw^ay still con- 

 tinue in the absence of fresh regulative treatment. By means of 

 various conferences and iiKjuiiies these conditions are now sufficiently 

 Fisheries, Scotland, Salmon Fish., 1914, iii. (April 1915). 



