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Appendices to Twenty-fifth Annual Report 



The remainder of my tour of inspection included visits to the 

 small districts in the north and west of Sutherland and west of 

 Ross-shire as far south as the Broom. Reports go to show that in 

 almost all the small districts of the north-west Highlands salmon 

 fisheries are in a somewhat backward condition. The bag nets 

 have in most districts done very badly. Several bag-net stations 

 in the island of Skye and the neighbourhood have been abandoned 

 as unproductive, rents are depressed, and angling is in several 

 rivers of comparatively little value. Such combinations of circum- 

 stances are not merely the result of weather conditions or of any 

 transitory cause. I hope to be able to give special attention to 

 these smaller west Highland districts this year. 



W. L. Calderwood. 



