88 Appendices to Twenty -second Annual Report 



No. 

 of 

 Mark. 



vv eight. 

 Lbs. 



.Length. 

 Ins. 



Condition. 



Sex. 



Date. 



Locality. 



9,302 



f 10 



\ n 



72 

 30 



Clean. 

 Clean. 



F. 

 F. 



9 Jan. 1903. 

 5 Feb. 1903. 



Tay, Linn of Campsie. 

 Tay, Almond Mouth. 



9,402 



{ m 



25 

 30 



Kelt Grilse. 

 Clean Salmon. 



F. 

 F. 



5 Feb. 1903. 

 31 July 1903. 



Tay, Logierait.. 



Tay Estuary, Flookie Station 

 (said to be a Bull-trout). 



9,607 



{ 6J 



24 

 26 



Kelt. 



Clean Grilse. 



F. 



24 Mar. 1903. 

 11 July 1903. 



Deveron, Duff House. 

 Bag Net North of Aberdeen 

 Harbour. 



9,622 



I s 



34 

 35 



Kelt. 



Unspawned. 



F. 



10 April 1903. 

 26 Sept. 1903. 



Deveron, Duff House. 

 Deveron, Huntly. 



9,639 



{ n 



25 



Kelt. 

 Clean. 



F. 



28 April 1903. 

 25 July 1903. 



Deveron, Duff House. 



Port Errol(BagNet) Ythan Dist. 



Note. — None of the grilse were recaught in the spring. 



I shall endeavour to discuss the above data on, as nearly as possible, 

 the plan previously adopted. 



Migratory Movements. 



All the fish above noted, with but three exceptions, have been re- 

 captured in the same river district in which they were marked, thus 

 bearing out the commonly accepted view, supported also by last Report, 

 that the great majority of salmon after visiting the sea return to the 

 same river. Moreover the exceptions, although they point to certain 

 fish wandering considerable distances, do not exactly show recaptures 

 in other rivers. One cannot by any means assert that other rivers 

 would not have been entered by two of the fish, but so far as these 

 particulars show, the condition is the same as that described by 

 Archer in the Sands River markings in Norway (Eleventh Annual 

 Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, p. 63) ; and by Holt (Report 

 on Fisheries of Ireland for 1901, Parr, II., p. 165). The fish captured 

 on the coast at some distance are : — 



9607, marked in River Deveron — recaptured in a bag-net a short 

 distance north of Aberdeen Harbour. 



9639, marked in River Deveron — recaptured in a bag-net at Port 

 Errol in the Ythan District. 



The first of these recalls the instance mentioned in my former report 

 of a Deveron grilse (6508) being recaptured at Cove, just south of 

 Aberdeen ; and the second, in like manner, shows a fish travelling in 

 the same direction. It is somewhat remarkable that these Deveron 

 fish should be found, each on the east coast of Aberdeenshire, having 

 left the southern shore of the Moray Firth. Yet, from the River Brora, 

 on the northern shore, it may be recollected that a fish (7283) wandered 

 100 miles north into the Pentland Firth, and was taken off the mouth 

 of the Halladale. In this connection I may mention also, that a fish 

 marked in the Grimersta, on the west of the Lewis (Outer Hebrides), 

 in March, was retaken in August at Castletown, to the east of Thurso. 

 The fish was marked privately, the label being of the same pattern as 



