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Appendices to Seventeenth Annual Report 



Protection — 



1. £17,423 8s. 6d. 



2. Six per cent, on above assessable rental. 



3. Twenty-one. 



4. Fourteen prosecutions, implicating 22 individuals. For having unseason- 



able salmon and poaching implements in their possession. One case 

 not proven, another settled out of court, others fined from 7s. 6d. to £5. 

 Twelve of the 14 cases went to prison. Terms of imprisonment from 

 7 days to a month. 



Obstructions to the Passage of Fish — 



1. No dams. 



2. No cruives. 



3. No. 



4. Does not apply to Dee District. 



5. No. 



6. No changes. 

 Pollutions — 



1 and 2. No changes in this department since last year, but arrangements 

 are in progress between the Town Council and District Board whereby 

 the sewage that had obtained fall into the lower Dee is to be carried to 

 the sea at the Bay of Nigg. 



The Salmon Disease — 



1, 2, 3, and 4. No diseased fish seen in 1898. 



The Spawning Season — 



1. 15th October. 



2. Upper river between middle of October and middle of November. 



Lower river between end of November and end of January. 



3. Practically at the end of January. 



4. Largely flooded during whole spring time. 



5. Upper waters more than usual ; lower water less. 



6. Upper river and tributaries in upper district. 



Kelts— 



1. End of January. 



2. From 1st April to middle of May. 



3. Never quite free, but most free in July. 



4. Low. 



Smolts— ...... :.. . - 



1. Early in April. 



2. Yes. 



Artificial Propagation of Salmon — 



Board has constructed and maintains a hatchery at Drum, about 11 miles up 

 the river. 1,000,000 ova put into the hatching boxes in 1898, 97 per- 

 cent, of which were successfully hatched and put into the river. 



Proportion of Male to Female Salmon — 

 No information on this point. 



General Question — 

 No. 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER DON. 



Take of Fish — 



1. Below- the average in each of these four cases. 



2. No. 



3. (a) 11th February; (6) in month of July ; (c) grilse middle of May ; 



sea -trout 11th February. ........ 



