TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



JOHN SINCLAIR, M.P., 



His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland. 



Office of the Fishery Board 

 for Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, May, 1907. 



Sir. 



In continuation of our Twenty-fifth Annual Report 

 we have the honour to submit — 



PART II. — REPORT ON SALMON FISHERIES. 



In the absence of actual statistics respecting the numbers 

 and weight of salmon caught during the fishing season of 1906 ; 

 from lack of statutory authority to obtain them, we have once 

 more to fall back upon the weight of salmon reported to us 

 as having been carried by Scottish Railways and Steamships. We 

 regret to announce that, as compared with season 1905, the weight 

 shows a decline of 531 tons. As compared with the quinquennial 

 average last struck in 1903, a decline of 285 tons is shown. The 

 satisfactory improvement noted in last Report has not been main- 

 tained. The total for 1906 is 1749 tons 10 cwts. From the fol- 

 lowing Table, which shows the weights reported from the four 

 divisions of the coast usually adopted, and perhaps more clearly 

 from the chart of curves also given, it will be seen that the decline 

 has been general in each division. 



