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Appendices to Fourth Anmcal Report 



Statistics. 



In the following tables I have given the weekly returns of herring cap- 

 tured in the Inveraray, Campbeltown, and Rothesay districts, for which I 

 am indebted to the Fishery Officers. The returns show the migration of 

 the herring from one district to another very well. I have also obtained 

 from the officers at Ardrishaig and Campbeltown a return of the herrings 

 caught in each district during the past twenty years. These are placed 

 side by side, and it is interesting to note the gradual development of the 

 fishing in the Campbeltown district — a development which one cannot 

 help associating with the loss of the fishery in Upper Loch Fyne : — 



Table L— WEEKLY EETUHN of the HEEEING FISHING in 

 LOCHFYNE— SEASON 1885. 



Date. 



Crans. 



Week ending 

 May 9 



67 



16 



486 



„ 23 

 „ 30 



560 

 934 



June 6 



2667 



„ 13 



2744 



„ 20 

 „ 27 



2861 

 2648 



July 4 



1974 



„ 11 



1764 



1 Q 



„ 18 

 „ 25 



i/ 4y 

 1399 



Aug. 1 

 „ 8 



463 

 544 



„ 15 

 „ 22 

 29 



Sept. 5 



436 

 960 

 666 

 434 



12 

 „ 19 

 „ 26 

 Oct. 3 



741 



564 



402 



, 10 



1060 



» 17 

 „ 24 

 „ 31 



244 

 9 

 3 



Total 



26,379 



Eemakks. 



Weather favourable for fishing, reports of several shoals of 



herrings having entered Loch Fyne. 

 Weather favourable for fishing, good appearance of herrings 



in Loch Fyne. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Nearly all the herrings caught on the east side of the loch 



during day time. 

 Weather fine, fishing regularly prosecuted, chiefly between 



Tarbert and Ardrishaig on east side of loch. 

 Weather fine, fishing regularly prosecuted, chiefly between 



Tarbert and Ardrishaig, and during day time. 

 Weather unsettled, nothing done on two days of the week. 

 Weather fine, highest take 750 boxes = 338 crans, realised 



about £500. 



Weather unsettled, fishing interrupted on two days of the 

 week. 



Weather favourable, nearly all the herrings caught during 

 day time up to this date. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Fishing light on the east side of the loch, herrings appear 



to be leaving east side. 

 Fishing light betAveen Tarbert and Ardrishaig, most of the 



herrings caught near Skipness. 

 Fishing regularly prosecuted, herrings caught about 

 entrance to loch. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Herrings caught about entrance to loch, most of the boats 

 fishing in Campbeltown district. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Weather unsettled, fishing indifierently prosecuted. 

 Weather unsettled. Bright moon light. No fishing. 

 Herrings caught about the entrance to the loch, weather 

 unsettled. 



Heavy fishing about the entrance to loch, and in Sound of 

 Kilbrannan. One Ardrishaig crew had a take of over 

 700 boxes accounted for in Campbeltown district. 



Fish caught about the entrance to loch. 



Weather favourable for fishing, but no fish. 



Weather favourable for fishing, but no herrings to be found 

 in Loch Fyne. 



The takes obtained during season ranged from 10 to 200 

 boxes, and occasionally higher. 



Wm. JEFFEEY, Fishery Office7\ 



