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Appendices to Seventh Annual Report. 



The advantages of the artificial culture of salmon and trout seem to be 

 gradually, and year by year, better understood and appreciated. Besides 

 the new hatcheries above mentioned, there are several others, in different 

 parts of Scotland, that have been in operation for a longer or shorter 

 period of years. In the extreme north, on the little Riyer Forss, which 

 falls into the Pentland Firth about 6 miles' westward of Thurso, there is, 

 and has been for the last ten years, a hatchery on a small burn running 

 into the Forss, which turns out about 200,000 salmon fry every year, to 

 the great benefit of the fishing in the Forss, on which — small river though 

 it be — as many as 200 salmon and grilse have been taken by the rod in a 

 single season since the institution of the hatchery ; and it is stated that 

 the adjacent net fishings in the sea are also much more productive than 

 they were before the hatchery was established. The fry in this hatchery 

 enjoy specially favourable conditions ; as, when they leave it, instead of 

 having at once to face the danger of being devoured by larger fish in the 

 main stream, they are put into a burn, carefully cleared of trout and eels, 

 and are kept there and fed until they are able to take care of themselves. 

 This hatchery is described in my Third Report to the Board, page 125. 



Then, in the extreme south of Scotland, besides Mr Armistead's well- 

 known and extensive Solway Fishery, there is a hatchery at Craigielands 

 in Dumfriesshire, started a few years ago, with the view of improving the 

 fishing in the lochs and streams of Annandale. In this hatchery, Loch 

 Leven trout have been crossed with the almost equally beautiful trout 

 from the wild and remote Loch Skene on the borders of Dumfriesshire and 

 Selkirkshire. 



At Fasnacloich, on Loch Creran, there is also a hatchery from which 

 from 60,000 to 80,000 salmon fry are turned out annually. At Loch 

 Buie in Mull, there is another, capable of hatching out 60,000 eggs 

 annually, from which many of the lochs and streams on the estate have 

 been supplied with salmon fry, salmo fontincdis, and great Swiss lake 

 trout. Several of the hill lochs on the estate, formerly untenanted by 

 fish, have been successfully stocked from this hatchery. 



The most recent hatchery established is that at Tay mouth Castle, for 

 the purpose of hatching out a large consignment of the land-locked salmon 

 from the United States of America. 



The famous establishment at Howietoun still stands in the foremost 

 rank of hatcheries, both from its great extent and the perfection of its 

 arrangements for hatching, feeding, packing, and distributing. In an 

 interesting paper from the Proceedings of the Gotteswold Club, 1888-9, 

 entitled ' Notes on Hybridization,' Dr Day of Cheltenham details some 

 of the instructive and carefully conducted experiments on the Hybridiza- 

 tion of the Salmonidse that have been carried on at Howietoun during 

 recent years. 



EDINBURGH : PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, 

 FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. 



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