SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, M.P., 



Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. 



Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, 2nd June 1884. 



Sir, 



We have the honour to submit our Second Annual introductory 

 Report of the Fisheries under our superintendence. It includes statement - 

 statistics for the year 1883, with the exception that, for reasons 

 given, those relating to fish sold fresh are for the twelve months 

 ended 31st March last. 



As stated in our First Annual Eeport, the coasts of Scotland are Fishery 

 divided into twenty-six fishery districts, at each of which a fishery Districts, 

 officer is stationed, and at some of the more important stations 

 there is also an assistant officer. Their names and boundaries, 

 together with the residences of the fishery officers, will be found in 

 that Report, along with a list of the fishing villages or creeks on 

 the east coast. 



We had the honour to receive a letter from you, dated 15th Matters 

 December 1882, inviting an expression of our opinion on matters re<i uiril jg 

 under our administration which appeared to require immediate eglb a 10n ' 

 legislation, and there was submitted to you, on 24th May 1883, 

 a report on some of these subjects, which was afterwards laid 

 before Parliament. That report mainly dealt with the regulations 

 respecting the Herring Brand, and the restrictive provisions of the 

 Fishery Acts, both of which subjects appeared to be of pressing 

 importance. As was then stated, however, there were other matters, 

 such as Salmon Fisheries, Harbours, and Marine Police, which had 

 been under our consideration, but which required time for their 

 investigation. Regarding these we shall speak in the course of this 

 Report. 



