SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



LORD BALFOUR or BURLEIGH, 



Her Majesti/s Secretary for Scotland. 



Office of Fishery Board 

 FOR Scotland, 

 Edinburgh, \st April 1898. 



My Lord, 



In continuation of our Sixteenth Annual Report, 

 we have the honour to submit — 



PART II.— REPORT ON SALMON FISHERIES. 



The fishing season of 1897 appears, from all available sources 

 of information, to have been below the average. The number of 

 boxes of salmon sent to Billingsgate was 30 per cent, less than 

 the average of the previous sixty-three years, and nearly 26 per 

 cent, under the average of the previous ten years. In the follow- 



