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Appendices to Timnty-first Annual Report 



Tlie Spawning Season — 

 1. November. 



2. End of December. 



3. About 1st January. 



4. About the average. 



5. Usual. 



(). The Dee and Tarff. 



Kelts — 



1. Ist March. 

 % End of March. 



3. May. 



4. Average. 



Smolts — 



1. 1st April, 



2. Yes. ^ 



Artificial Propagation of Salmon — 

 None this year. 



Proportion of Male to Female Salmon — 



Take of Fish— 



1. (a), (/)), and {d) Below the average ; (c) nil. 



2. (a), (6), and (c) Cannot be ascertained. 



3. (a) 17th March ; {h) during June ; (c) June and July. 



4. {a) and (6) Cannot be got. 



5. (a) 25 lbs. ; (c) 23i Ibsl 



0. No. 



Protection — 



1. £545 6s. 8d. 



2. 10s. per £. 



3. One bailiff employed permanently, and two additional bailiffs for three 



month in height of season, also twenty gamekeepers sworn in as 

 special watchers. 



4. Yes, two cases — one under Section 33 of the Salmon Act of 1862 (taking 



salmon with a paidle net), lined £1 and 30s. of expenses, or two 

 months' imprisonment, and fish and nets forfeited valued at £20 ; the 

 other under Section 15 (1) of the Act of 1868, fined £2 and 36s. of 

 expenses, or one month's imprisonment. 



Obstructions to the Passage of Fish — 



1. No alteration. 



2. There is one cruive in the district, which is substantially in accordance 



with the bye-law ; most of the dams are not, 

 3 and 5. No. 



4. Fairly, except when the streams are low. 



6. No changes. 



Pollutions — 



1. A public steam laundry has been opened in Dumfries. 



2. The scheme for the purification of the Nith from the sewage of the town 



is at length being started. 



General Question — 

 No. 



None. 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER NITH. 



