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Report on Salmon Fisheries, 



each period of five years, and the proportion per cent, which the 

 two later periods bear to the first, the value of the first being 

 taken as 100 : — 



Y c;ir. 



Rateable Value of 

 Fisheries. 



Average Value in 

 each period of 

 Five Years. 



1 



i erceiitage. 





£ 



£ 





1881 



90,226 







1882 



86,654 

 85,776 







1883 







1884 



85,311 







1885 



88,218 



87,237 





1886 



91,407 







1887 



94,644 







1888 



96,312 







1889 



93,667 







1890 



92,101 



93,624 



107-3 



1891 



90,763 







1892 



90,725 







1893 



94,752 







1894 



99,894 







1895 



98,419 



94,910 



108-7 



Annual Close 

 Time. 



List of 



Chairmen and 

 Clerks of 

 District 

 Boards. 



lleport of 

 Investigations 

 <m the Life 

 History of 

 Salmon. 



In Note VI. of the Appendices a list is given of the dates of the p- 

 commencement and termination of the annual close time for net 

 and rod fishing respectively, applicable to the salmon rivers in 

 Scotland. 



In Note VII, of the Appendices will be found a list of the p. 

 Chairmen and Clerks of Salmon Fishery District Boards in Scot- 

 land. It will be observed that during 1897 Boards were 

 formed for the districts of the rivers Broom, Doon, Gruinard and 

 Little G-ruinard, and Little Loch Broom, where none previously 

 existed. 



A Report to the Fishery Board of investigations into the life- 

 history of salmon in fresh v^aters, conducted at the Research 

 Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, was 

 issued as a separate Blue-book and presented to both Houses of 

 Parliament on 8th March last. We desire to express our 

 thanks to the several contributors for their valuable work, as well 

 as to those noblemen and gentlemen who kindly supplied material 

 for investigation. 



We have the honour to be, 



Your Lordship's most obedient servants, 



ANGUS SUTHERLAND, Chairman. 



D. CRAWFORD, Depuiy-C%airman. 



JOHN MURRAY. 



J. RITCHIE WELCH. 



W. R. DUGUID. 



ARCHIBALD JAMESON. 



L. MILLOY. 



WM. C. ROBERTSON, Secretary. 



