SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



LORD BALFOUR of BURLEIGH, 



Her Majesty's Secretary for Scotland. 



Office of the Fishery Board 



for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 15th April 1899. 



My Lord, 



En continuation of our Seventeenth Annual Eeport, 

 we have the honour to submit — 



PAKT II— EEPOET ON SALMON FISHERIES. 



The fishing season of 1898 appears, from all available sources Returns of 

 of information, to have been considerably below the average. The | c a °i[way and 

 returns furnished by the Scottish Eailway Companies and Steam- Steamship 

 ship Owners as to the weight of salmon forwarded by them from Com P ames - 

 all parts of the country show a total of 1717 tons 4 cwts., as 

 compared with 2194 tons 5 cwts. in 1897, being a decrease of 477 

 tons 8 cwts. Particulars for the five last years are shown in the 

 following Table, together with the averages for the five years : — 



