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Appendices to Fourth Anmial Report 



APPENDIX E.— Xo. 11. 



EEPORT by the Engineers upon the State of the Harbour AYorks in 

 progress under the Fishery Board for Scotland durmg the 

 Year 1885. 



We have now the honour to submit the following Eeport on the Har- 

 bour Works in progress during the year 1885 : — 



Crovie Landing Slip^ Banffshire. — The works connected with the land- 

 ing slip at the fishing creek of Crovie, which were suspended during the 

 winter of 1884-5, were completed in September last. The slip is 234 

 feet in length, extending from the beach to low water of spring tides. 

 Previous to the erection of the slip there was an entire absence of any 

 facilities for prosecuting the fishings, the boats after the fish had been 

 discharged requiring to be hauled up on arriving, the ballast thrown out, 

 and again put on board before going to sea. The very limited funds at 

 disposal admitted only of providing this landing slip at which boats might 

 be enabled to land in good weather, preserve their ballast, and be hauled 

 up in security. 



Nass Harhom\ Island of Lewis. — The works at Xess have been com- 

 pleted. As mentioned in last year's Report, this small harbour is built 

 on an exposed sandy coast, and, like all such harbours, is liable to have 

 sand thrown into it by storms. The accumulations of sand have proved 

 even more troublesome than was anticipated. The object for which this 

 harbour was made, and which it amply fulfils, was to afford shelter in 

 heavy weather to the small class of boats used by the local fishermen, 

 and to save them the labour of drawing their boats out of the water above 

 high water mark, as they had to do every time they came in. The har- 

 bour has, however, been largely taken advantage of by strangers, and 

 would evidently become a fishing centre of some importance if there were 

 room and depth of water for the large class of boats used by strangers 

 coming from the South and the East Coast. The only way to meet th^'s 

 want is to make an entrance to the eastward of the present one, and this 

 would also, to some extent, prevent the present accumulation of sand in 

 the harbour. This entrance was very fully discussed when the original 

 design was made out, but the expense of the necessary works, and the 

 limited funds at disposal, prevented its being adopted. The present har- 

 bour is, however, so laid out as to form an integral part of such works 

 should'funds be forthcoming to execute them. 



Harbours in the Island of Leiois. — At the request of His Grace the 

 Duke of Richmond and Gordon, late Secretary for Scotland, and with the 

 concurrence of the Board, a preliminary inspection of certain sites for 

 fishery harbours, in the Island of Lewis, was made in November last, 

 and the result given in our Report of 10th December, to which we beg 

 to refer. 



D. & T. STEVEN^SON. 



Edinburgh, Qth February 1886. 



