TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Table of Boxes of Scottish Salmon sent to Billingsgate from 1834 to 



1897 inclusive, ....... vi 



Table of Boxes of Scottish Salmon sent to Billingsgate in each month 



from 1884 to 1897 inclusive, ..... vii 



Boxes of Scotch Salmon forwarded from various Stations, Ports, &c., vii 



Replies to Printed Queries regarding the yield of the Salmon 



Fisheries in 1897, ....... viii 



Rental of Tay Salmon Fishings, . . . . , viii 



Return of the Fish caught at the Salmon Fishings belonging to the 



Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, .... x 



Salmon Disease in 1897, . . . . . . ix 



Inspections during 1897, ...... ix 



Salmon Fishing Cases in the Court of Session, ... xi 



Sum raised and expended by District Boards, ... xi 



Rateable Value of Salmon Fishings, ..... xi 



Annual Close Time, ....... xii 



List of Chairmen and Clerks of District Boards, ... xii 



Report of Investigation on the Life History of Salmon, . . xii 



APPENDIX. 



Sixteenth Annual Report to the Fishery Board for Scotland,* 



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