Report on Salmon Fisheries. vii 



This Table shows that the number of boxes of salmon sent to 

 Billingsgate in 1894 was below the average of the last ten years in 

 each month. 



With regard to the average monthly price per lb. of salmon, it 

 will be observed that it was higher during 1894 than during 

 the previous year. If it is estimated that each box contains 1 cwt. 

 of salmon, the value of the Scotch salmon delivered at Billingsgate 

 during 1894 will be found to be £112,090, 2s. 9d., or on an average, 

 £7, 4s. 9d. per cwt., whereas the value of that delivered in 1893 

 was £120,604, 7s. 9d. or £6, 7s. 7d. per cwt. 



The Scottish railway companies and steamship owners have kindly Boxes of 

 furnished a statement showing the number, and in almost every fo r °warcfed m ° n 

 case the weight, 1 of the boxes of salmon forwarded by them during from various 

 1894 from the various stations, ports, &c. This information, st ^t° n & Q 

 together with that derived from the same sources in 1892 and 

 1893, has been divided in the following manner : — 





1892. 



1893. 



1894. 



District. 



Number of 



Number of 



Number of 



Weight. , 





Boxes. 



Half- 

 Boxes. 



Boxes. 



Half- 

 Boxes. 



Boxes. 



Half- 

 Boxes. 



Quarter 

 Boxes. 



Pack- 

 ages. 



Tons. 



Cwt 



Qrs. 



Lbs. 



Berwick to Cairn- 



bulg Point, . 

 Cairnbulg Point 



to Cape Wrath, 

 Cape Wrath to 



Glasgow, . . 

 Glasgow to the 



Border, . . . 



16,779 

 9,569 

 4,007 

 4,832 



370 

 164 



16,309 

 9,821 

 6,101 

 4,773 



772 

 781 



11,153 

 7,388 

 6,728 

 3,886 



557 

 432 



141 



237 



94 



944 

 729 

 471 

 225 



10 

 2 

 13 

 16 



2 

 3 

 3 

 1 



13 

 17 

 4 



18 



Total, . . . 



35,187 



534 



36,004 



1,553 



29,155 989 



378 



94 



2,318 



15 



3 



20 



The replies which have been received to the usual circular of Replies to 

 printed queries issued at the close of the salmon fishing season, regaJdin^the 68 

 indicate that the season of 1894 was, as a rule, below the average, yield of the 

 These queries are sent to Clerks of District Boards, or, where no l^heries j n 

 Boards exist, to persons interested in the salmon fisheries, with a 1894. 

 view of ascertaining, as far as possible, the state of the fisheries. 

 The answers which have been received are given in Note I. of the 

 Appendices to this Report. From eighteen of these replies it seems 

 that the take of fish during 1894 has been below the average, from 

 two that it was about an average, while of the remaining five two 

 report that it was a fair or good average, and three that it was 

 above the average. 



In the following districts the take of fish is reported as being 

 ' below the average/ or even in cases marked * ' much below the 

 average ' : — 



1 The weight of 776 boxes and 94 packages was not returned. An estimate has been 

 made of the weight of the boxes, but the weight of the packages has been omitted 

 in the above table. 



