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Appendices to Eighteenth Annual Report 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER UGIE. 



Take of Fish— 



1. (a) Slightly below the average ; (b) a good deal below the average ; (c) 



about the average ; (d) slightly below the average. 



2. (a) and (b) About 700 salmon and 900 grilse ; (c) about 60 grilse and 



very few salmon 



3. (a) First of July ; (6) from the middle of August to the end of season; 



(c) During July and August. 



4. The salmon fishings are in the hands of private enterprise, and the 



tacksmen decline to keep any record or give information. 



5. (a) 43 lbs. ; (6) 43 lbs. ; (c) 16 lbs. 



Protection — 



1. £767 10s. 



2. 9£d. per £. 



3. Five. 



4. There were no prosecutions. 



Obstructions to the Passage of Fish — 



1. There have been no alterations on the dams during the year 1899, and no 



new ones have been built. 



2. The dams are worked in accordance with the provisions of the bye-laws 



(Schedules F and G) regulating the same. The cruives are not worked 

 at all, except for the purpose of catching fish for the hatchery. 



3. No fish-passes have been built or altered in 1899. 



4. The existing fish-passes afford at all times a free passage to salmon wishing 



to ascend. 



5. None. 



6. No. A temporary obstruction was put in at the dam at Ravenscraig by 



the tenant of the. mill, but it was removed, and interdict granted 

 against its replacement. 



Pollutions — 



1 and 2. There were no causes of pollution during 1899. 



The Salmon Disease- 

 Owing to the appointment of a new head water bailiff in or about the month 

 of September last, it is to be regretted that no statistics in regard to 

 disease are available for the season of 1898-9, as the old bailiff left no 

 particulars with the new one, and they cannot now be got. 



The Spawning Season — 

 There are no statistics in connection with this owing to the change of 

 water bailiffs as before mentioned. 



Kelts- 

 No statistics available for reason before stated. 



Smolts — 



No statistics available for reason before stated. 



Artificial Propagation of Salmon — 



There is a hatchery now in use, as explained in last year's report, at English 

 Mill, Inverugie, for the artificial propagation of salmon or trout. It is 

 maintained at the expense of the various proprietors. A quantity of 

 salmon ova was secured this past season, but the number is not yet 

 known. 



Proportion of Male to Female Salmon — 

 Five males to three females, based on estimate. 



General Question — 

 None. 



