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Appendices to Seventeenth Annual Report 



In the district of Aylort a cruive existed in early days. I am 

 informed that no structure of the kind exists now. Mr Young, in the 

 Third Annual Report, p. 146, refers to the remains of an old cruive on 

 the Aylort while describing the rivers in the west of Inverness-shire. 



In the district of the river Ugie, at Inverugie, a dyke containing two 

 boxes exists in an efficient condition, but the fishing has not been 

 carried on for many years. Three years ago a new arrangement as to 

 the leasing of the rod fishing came into force and there seems no likeli- 

 hood of the cruives being again fished, except to obtain fish from which 

 to stock a neighbouring hatchery with ova. 



In the South Esk district a dyke with two boxes existed at Brechin 

 Castle. In 1865, however, an agreement seems to have been come to 

 between the Earl of Dalhousie and the Town Council of Brechin, who 

 hold certain milling interests, by which the cruive should be done away 

 with. I am informed by the Clerk to the District Fishery Board 

 that the Earl of Dalhousie retains full power to restore the cruives 

 and recommence the fishing. 



In the district of the river Forth two cruives have fortunately fallen 

 into disuse. At Kippenross on the Allan, a tributary of the Forth, the 

 cruive has not been fished, I am informed by the District Superintendent, 

 for a period of 36 years. The other cruive existed at Doune on the 

 Teith tributary. It was carried away by a flood which occurred about 

 20 years ago, and has not since been repairecf. 



Records of cruives discarded in earlier times come from the following 

 rivers : — Forss, a small structure used to intercept yellow trout ; Hope ; 

 Loch-na-Ciste, in North Uist ; Wick ; and Ythan. 



With reference now to the cruives which are fished at the present 

 time, I have the honour to submit the following table : — 



List of Localities where Cruive Fishing is regularly carried on. 



(A single cruive dyke exists in each case.) 



Locality. 



River. 



District. 



No. of boxes in dyke. 



1. Inverawe 



Awe. 



Awe. 



Two. 



• 



2. Cluden Mills - 



Cluden. 



Nith. 



One. 



3. Gordon's Mills 



Don. 



Don. 



_ 



Four. 



4. Dupplin - 



Earn. 



Tay. 



One. 



5. Strathallan 



Earn. 



Tay. 



One. 



6. Craigforth 



Forth. 



Forth. 



One. 



1. The cruive in the Awe district is situated about half a mile above 

 the mouth of the river. The cruive fishings and the rod fishings are let 

 together. 



2. Cluden Water is the first tributary of any importance on the river 

 Nith. It joins the main river at Lincluden Abbey, about a mile above 

 the town of Dumfries. No reference seems to have been made to this 

 cruive in descriptive accounts of the fisheries of the Nith district. The 

 cruive, or more properly, and as it is known in the district, " the creel," 

 is fitted in a wooden staging which crosses the river at an island situated 

 between the two Cluden Mills. The creel is fixed in the channel to the 



