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Appendices to Thirteenth Annual Report 



was noted the number of nets in each line. These maps and notes are 

 available at any time for reference, but are on too large a scale to be 

 reproduced in this report. In order, however, to give a general idea of 

 the salmon lishing industry on the sea-coast, I have indicated graphically 

 on a map of Scotland (ten miles to the inch), appended to the Board's 

 Report, the approximate number of nets on every ten miles of coast, the 

 map being on too small a scale to permit the position of each net being shown. 

 A glance at this map * will show that the coast line from Berwick-on-Tweed 

 lo Cape Wrath is divided into equal sections by means of black lines, and 

 that in most of these sections one or more red lines are drawn parallel 

 with the coast. The number of red lines represent the number of fixed 

 nets in each section, one red line denoting less than twenty nets, and 

 every additional red line denoting twenty or part of twenty additional 

 nets, the absence of such lines indicating the absence of nets. The red 

 lines do not show the position, but the number, of nets in each section. 

 It may further be mentioned that, except in the cases of the Tay and 

 Forth, the estuary lines, which are indicated by blue lines, are included 

 in measuring the ten-mile sections; and that within those lines no fixed 

 nets are used — such nets in river and estuaries having been prohibited 

 by statute from the earliest times. 

 Berwick on- The red lines indicating the number of nets in each section or division 

 Tweed to Fife show that in the section south of St Abbs Head there are from forty to 

 Ness * sixty fixed nets. Proceeding westwards the number of nets decreases ; 



from St Abbs Head to Cockburnspath there are from twenty to forty ; 

 along the shores of Haddingtonshire there are less than twenty ; while 

 from the western boundary of that county to the eastern boundary of 

 Linlithgowshire there are none. Proceeding eastwards from St David's 

 Point along the northern shore of the Firth of Forth they gradually 

 become more numerous, the greatest number being found to the east of 

 the town of Leven ; indeed, round Largo Bay, past Elie Ness, and along 

 the low rocky shore as far as Fife Ness, are erected about four-fifths of 

 the fixed nets in the whole district of the river Forth — a district, it will be 

 observed, which extends from Fife Ness to the eastern boundary of the 

 county of Haddingtonshire. The unusual position of the nets in the dis- 

 trict of the river Forth is worthy of note. Generally such nets become 

 more numerous the nearer the estuary lines are approached. This is 

 not so in the district of the river Forth, the estuary limits of which are 

 Hound Point on the south and St David's Point on the north ; on the 

 contrary, with the exception of a line of nets off Hound Point, no nets 

 are set within a distance of more than fifteen miles of the estuary line on 

 the southern shore of the Firth ; while on the northern shore the nearest 

 nets are set some eight miles distant from St David's Point, and are not 

 numerous within some twenty miles of that Point. 



File Ness to On the coast between Fife Ness and Buchan Ness, a distance of about 

 BuchanNess. 1Q0 whefe the Tay ^ j^,^ and gouth Egkg) Dee> and 



Ythan empty themselves into the sea, nets have been erected on every 

 available place, except for a short distance to the, south of Stonehaven ; 

 in fact the number of nets between these points is greater than on the 

 remainder of the coast from Berwick-on-Tweed to Cape Wrath, and it will 

 be observed that they are most numerous in Montrose Bay. The number 

 of nets in this bay, however, it would appear, is not due alone to the 

 abundance of salmon, but also to the fact that the fishings are in a 



* I am indebted to Messrs J. Johnston & Sons, Montrose, for information regard- 

 ing the Scotch salmon fishings to the south of Eyemouth ; and to Mr Box, factor to 

 the proprietor of the salmon fishings on the north coast of Sutherlandshire, for similar 

 information regarding the fishings on that coast. 



