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NOTE III. 



SALE OF SALMON SMOLTS. 

 Notice by the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



Complaints having, on several occasions, been made to the Fishery 

 Board for Scotland that salmon smolts are exposed for sale and sold, the 

 Board hereby give notice that such sale, or exposing for sale, is illegal, 

 and renders the seller or exposer liable to severe pecuniary penalties ; the 

 19th section of 'The Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868,' providing 

 that ' every person who shall wilfully take or destroy any smolt or salmon 

 1 fry, or shall buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in his possession, the 

 1 same, or shall place any device or engine for the purpose of obstructing 

 ' the passage of the same, or shall wilfully injure the same, or shall 

 * wilfully injure or disturb any salmon spawn, or disturb any spawning bed, 

 ' or any bank or shallow in which the spawn of salmon may be, or during 

 1 the annual close time shall obstruct or impede salmon in their passage 

 ' to any such bed, bank, or shallow, shall be liable to a penalty not exceed- 

 ' ing £5 for every such offence, and shall forfeit every rod, line, net, device, 

 ' or engine used in committing any such offence, and shall forfeit any smolt 

 ' or salmon fry that may be found in his possession.' 



The word 'salmon' in the Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868 

 means and includes ' salmon, grilse, sea trout, bull trout, smolts, parr, 

 ' and other migratory fish of the salmon kind.' 



All offences under the Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868 may be 

 prosecuted, and all penalties incurred may be recovered 'before any 

 ' Sheriff or any two or more Justices acting together, and having jurisdic- 

 1 tion in the place where the offence was committed, at the instance of the 

 ' Clerk of any District Board, or of any other person.' 



By Order, 



(Signed) DUGALD GRAHAM, Secretary. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 2nd May 1889. 



NOTE IV. 



RECENT HATCHERIES IN SCOTLAND. 



Two hatcheries on a small scale have been established in Scotland since 

 1887. One of these is on the Durris property, on the Aberdeenshire Dee. 

 The object of the proprietor is, in the first place, to increase the number 

 of fish, and, in the second place, to improve the breed. Ova have been 

 got from the Spey and Deveron, but it seems not a little doubtful whether 

 this is a wise choice, and whether it would not be better to stick to the 

 Dee fish ; or, if it be wished to increase the size of the fish — which, 

 however, we do not believe in — to have got ova from the Tay, a river 

 quite as early as the Dee and where the spring salmon are twice as large. 



The other hatchery has been started on the Deveron by Mr Bisset, the 

 lessee of the fishings. It is on a small scale, containing about 50,000 ova. 



