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Appendices to Thirteenth Annual Report 



3. First and second week of January. 



4. From 4 half-flood ' to < flood.' 



5. Reported more numerous this season. 



6. Inver and Laxford. 



Kelts— 



1. About middle of March. 



2. April. 



3. About middle of May. 



4. c Half -flood,' generally. 



Hatcheries — 



There are two hatcheries in this district, one at Inchnadamph and the other 

 at Geisgill, both maintained by the Duke of Sutherland. About 50,000 

 ova could be placed in each of them. 



Proportion of Male to Female Salmon — 



There are generally more male than female salmon observed. 



Fluctuations in the River Level — 

 1 Flood,' < half-flood,' or ' low.' 



Wild Birds' Protection Act, 1880— 



There is no doubt that herons, cormorants, and gulls do considerable damage 

 by destruction of young fish and ova. 



THE DISTRICT OF THE RIVER BALGAY. 

 Take of Fish— 



1. About the average in fresh waters ; with rod both sea-trout and salmon. 



3. Two clean salmon taken with rod in Lochdoub — weight 13 lbs. and 7 

 lbs. respectively — on or about 15th of July. The first general run of 

 sea-trout was this year, about 8th of July, earlier than last year by a 

 week ; but sea-trout were visible in the sea at the mouth of the river 

 three weeks previously. They could not ascend the rivers earlier than 

 above date owing to want of spate in the rivers. 



Protection — 



1. .£40. 



2. ,£24. 



3. One assisted by keepers. 



The Salmon Disease — 



1. One sea-trout all covered with fungus disease, and living when taken out 



of Kinloch River about the middle of June 1894. The trout weighed 

 about 5 lbs. 



2. River very low. 



The Spawning Season — 



1. Sea-trout were observed both in 1893 and 1894 on the spawning grounds 



about 10th of October. Salmon are about a month later. 



2. The greatest number of sea-trout spawn from the middle of October to 



1st of November. 



3. Both salmon and sea- trout are through with spawning by 20th of November. 



4. The rivers were high as a rule during the spawning season. 



5. The number of fish spawned were about the average. 



6. The principal spawning streams are the Balgay and Kinloch or Glen 



Shieldaig rivers. 



Kelts- 

 Kelts were noticed going seawards last season about 30th of November. 

 Riversspretty high. 



