of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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Protection — 



1. £6,523. 



2. 6| per cent. 



3. Thirteen bailiffs and one superintendent. 



4. No. 



Obstructions to the Passage of Fish — 



1. Morphie Dam Dyke partially taken down and rebuilt. 



2. The answer to this query in 1897 was to the effect that the Craigo Dyke 



was not worked in accordance with the provisions of the bye-laws, 

 one member dissenting. 



3. Pass in Morphie Dyke damaged by flood and restored. 



4. The Craigo Pass does not at all times. A case is at present pending in 



the Court of Session regarding it at the instance of upper proprietors. 



5. No. 



6. None. 



Pollutions — 



1. Yes ; by Auchinblae Distillery Company. 



2. Letters were sent to the different Distillery Companies, and the 



Auchinblae Company undertook to construct settling ponds. 



The Salmon Disease — 



1. A few diseased fish were found during the season, most of them in 



January. 



2. Below ordinary level. 



3. Ninety-two fish in all. 



4. No. 



The Spawning Season — 



1. November. 



2. December and January. 



3. End of February. 



4. Average level. 



5. Less. 



6. Gannochy, King's Ford, Pert Ford, Stob Ford, Bothy Stream, Peter's 



Stream, Bailie Middleton's Stream, Broad Rack, and Bridge Streams. 



Kelts— 



1. Early in January. 



2. January and February. 



3. May. 



4. Above average level. 



Smolts — 



1. April and May. 



2. Fair. 



Artificial Propogation of Salmon — 

 No hatchery. 



Proportion of Male to Female Salmon — 

 Estimate thiee-fourth males and one-fourth females. 



General Question — 



Yes. By a clerical mistake in the 12th Section of the Act of 1868, the 

 word " less" is used in place of "more" relating to the raising during 

 the weekly close time of the Kinnaber Lade Sluice at the Morphie 

 Dyke. 



