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Appendices to Twenty -second Annual Report 



The decrease in "Weight, and Change of Position, is as follows 



diseased. 



found dead. 



diseased. 



diseased. 



8026 



1 1 1 



4 months and 24 days, ascending, 



Lost n lb. 



8056 



5) 



2 



»j 



93 



ii 



QebctJiiu.111^, 



11 



9 



A 11 



8845 



11 





ii 



30 



ii 



n 



11 



0 5} 



8882 



11 



o 



ii 





ii 



ii 



11 





9074 



11 



1 



L 



'.i 



1 0 



1 \J 



ii 



JJllUblllg, 



11 



1 



1 11 



9083 



11 





ii 



J 



ii 



11 



11 



1 



1 11 



9084 



11 



I 



ii 



5 



ii 





11 



1 



2 " 



9087 



11 



1 

 1 



ii 



i 

 i 



ii 



11 



11 



1 



1 ii 





11 



1 



ii 



1 



ii 



11 



11 





9100 





2 



ii 



10 



ii 



11 



11 



5 " 



9270 



11 



2 



ii 



8 



ii 



11 



11 



H ii 



9273 



11 



1 



ii 



15 



ii 



11 



11 



" ii 



9287 



11 



1 



it 



6 



ii 



11 



11 



H» 



9289 



11 





ii 



9 



ii 



pausing, 



11 



ii 



9301 



11 



1 



ii 



7 



ii 



descending, 



11 



9 



^ ii 



9302 



11 





ii 



27 



ii 



ii 



11 



3 



4 JJ 



diseased. 



Two cases of reported increase of weight are as follows : — 



7707 in 28 days, pausing, gained | lb. 

 9269 in 10 days, ascending, gained 1-i lb. 



A case of a clean summer fish recaptured the following summer is 

 evidenced in No. 7519. It was estimated to be 16 lbs. on 7th August, 

 1901, and in July 1902 it was recaptured as a fish of 22 lbs. Both 

 marking and recapture took place in the Kyle of Sutherland. 



Kelts recaptured as Kelts. 



The condition of female kelts remaining for considerable periods has 

 again been exemplified in the recaptured kelts of the spawning seasons 

 dealt with in this report. A special selection of the cases seems 

 therefore unnecessary. Similar conditions have been demonstrated in the 

 Tweed in 1854 and 1875, and also in the Norwegian and Irish records. 



We have however five kelt recaptures of more striking interest. 



Annual Spawners. 



No. 7355, a kelt in Loch Brora, Sutherland, on 15th March, 1902, 

 weighing 13 lbs., was recaptured, again in Loch Brora, on 5th March, 

 1903. The weight on recapture was only 13| lbs., and the length 

 measurement was in each case 38 inches, showing practically no 

 increase in the year. This is an example of annual spawning. 



An almost exactly similar case is No. 6628, an unspawned female 

 estimated as 7 lbs. in weight caught at Ardmeallie on the Deveron in 

 October, 1901, which may therefore be regarded as a kelt early in 1902. 

 This fish was recaptured as a kelt in March 1903 at Avochie on the 

 Deveron, and the weight was only 6| lbs. It is proper, however, to 

 state that the mark on recapture was not removed, but was read and 

 reported to me by the Superintendent of the District Fisheries. The 

 fish was landed by the Avochie keeper. 



The third case is 6560, a Deveron fish (kelt) of 16 lbs. in February, 

 1903, found a kelt of 22| lbs. in March of this year (1904.) 



Cases such as these have not previous been noticed, and in view of 

 the number of recaptures now made they may perhaps be regarded as 

 exceptional. The forth and fifth cases are as follows : — 



Kelt of 1901 Recaptured a Kelt in 1903. 

 and „ 1902 „ „ 190Jf. 



