70 



Appendices to Tioenty- second Annual Report 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER BROOM. 

 Protection — 



1. £70. 



2. There was an assessment for the three years (31st March 1900 to 31st 



March 1903). 



3 No bailiffs specially employed, ,but the gamekeepers on the estates 



interested act as bailiffs without remuneration. 

 4. No. 



General Question — 



This Board was formed along with the Little Broom and Gruinard Fishery 

 Boards primarily to enable the proprietors interested to have power 

 of seizure and search under the Salmon Fishery Statutes upon their 

 gamekeepers. 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER BALGAY. 



Take of Fish— 



1. (a), (b), (c), and (d) About the average. 



3. (c) Most of the grilse and sea-trout ran in July. 



5. The heaviest salmon caught here by rod was about 13 lbs., on Loch 

 Dhugaill. 



Protection — 



2. All expensee are paid by Mr. C. J. Murray cf Lochcarron and The 



Honourable Captain King Noel. 



4. Oae water bailiff. 



5. No, but the bailiff and the keepers made a seizure of nets in the course of 



the season. 



The Salmon Disease — 



3. One dead female, spent, salmon got in Kinloch River in November; when 



in condition it would have weighed about 16 lbs., quite lean. 



The Spawning Season — 



1. Sea-trout were spawning here in October, and salmon in November. 



6. The Balgay and Kinloch Rivers. 



General Question — 



Herrons are most destructive when sea-trout are spawning on rivers and 

 tributaries. They can easily catch the sea-trout then, and pick them 

 out and devour them at their leisure. 



THE DISTRICTS OF THE RIVERS SLIGACHAN AND 

 SNIZORT. 



Take of Fish— 



1. (d) much below the average ; weather very unfavourable for fishing. 



3. (a) Generally throughout the district in nets at the beginning of March ; 



(b) June and July. 

 5. (a), (6), and (c) No record. 



Protection — 



1. £540. 



2. A sum of £11 was equally divided and paid by the five proprietors on the 



Roll. 



3. Sixteei 



