MR. CALDERWOOD'S REPORT. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 8th March 1904. 



I have the honour to transmit to the Fishery Board for Scotland 

 my report for the }^ear 1903. Early in March, a communication 

 was addressed, by the Under Secretary for Scotland, to the Clerks 

 of the District Fishery Boards of Scotland, in which attention District 

 was called to the Report of the Royal Commission on Salmon Boards and 

 Fisheries, and more especially to the passages which deal with the ^Station of 

 Commissioners' recommendations with regard to the limitation of Net and Coble 

 netting in narrow waters. . In order that the Secretary for Scot- Flshin g- 

 land might receive an expression of the views of District Fishery 

 Boards on those important recommendations, the suggestion was 

 made that meetings should be arranged with me for the purpose 

 of discussing the subject, and in order that I might subsequently 

 report to the Secretary for Scotland on the views of the various 

 District Boards respecting the particular areas under their control. 

 A similar communication was sent to the Tweed Commissioners. 



As a result of those communications I met with a special 

 committee of the Tweed Commissioners, and with the following 

 Boards : — 



Forth, Tay, South Esk, North Esk, Dee (Aberdeenshire), 

 Don, Spey, Findhorn, Ness, Conon, Kyle of Sutherland, Awe, 

 Cree, Nith, and Annan. In two other cases, viz., theDeveron and 

 the Solway Dee, discussion was anticipated by meetings being held 

 and resolutions passed ere an attempt was made to arrange a 

 meeting with me. This, indeed, was also done in another case — 

 the Conon — but in view of the position adopted it was still possible 

 to meet the Board and discuss the subject, and this was done. I 

 reported the result of those meetings, at considerable length, 

 to the Secretary for Scotland, dealing with existing conditions and 

 the resolutions arrived at by the various Boards. Condensed into 

 tabular form the result may be represented thus : — 



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