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Appendices to Eighth Annual Report 
NOTE II. 
Statistics of 
the Tweed for 
78 Years. 
Through the kindness of Mr Tait, Clerk to the Tweed Commissioners, 
and of the Berwick Salmon Fisheries Company, I am enabled to give 
statistics of the produce of the important river Tweed, for the long period 
of 78 years, if not with perfect accuracy, at least with a close approxima- 
tion to it. These seem to me to be, in many respects, so interesting and 
instructive as to be well worth publishing. 
Return of Salmon, Grilse, and Trout, taken in the River Tweed, from 
1808 to 1885, both years inclusive. Perfect correctness is not claimed 
for these calculations, but they are generally believed in the District 
to be nearly accurate. Prior to 1857, the net fishing closed on the 
14th October; from 1857 to 1859, on 30th September; and since 
1859, on 14th September. 
Year. 
1808 
1809 
1810 
1811 
1812 
1813 
1814 
1815 
1816 
1817 
1818 
1819 
1820 
1821 
1822 
1823 
1824 
1825 
1826 
1827 
1828 
1829 
1830 
1831 
1832 
1833 
1834 
1835 
1836 
1837 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
1843 
1844 
1845 
1846 
Salmon. 
37,333 
30,949 
40,782 
38,566 
27,711 
35,273 
58,890 
41,044 
54,041 
36,199 
39,267 
31,895 
28,288 
34,657 
25,250 
12,122 
23,644 
18,957 
12,040 
10,725 
13,511 
5,350 
7,415 
13,197 
9,709 
10,428 
16,106 
22,642 
16,957 
14,577 
12,785 
15,508 
10,920 
16,464 
19,198 
17,777 
21,830 
18,962 
17,878 
Grilse. 
25,324 
32,679 
49,332 
24,852 
82,538 
61,643 
73,521 
97,734 
120,594 
66,694 
59,848 
71,813 
116,495 
55,291 
47,266 
50,794 
73,381 
61,506 
85,378 
54,034 
39,248 
34,773 
66,520 
43,244 
41,411 
93,939 
59,262 
87,707 
34,846 
60,429 
78,577 
35,449 
52,117 
71,254 
109,935 
66,293 
88,003 
69,752 
37,500 
Migra- 
tory 
Trout. 
21,033 
21,402 
23,963 
12,439 
33,604 
36,319 
34,161 
39,653 
62,074 
37,131 
37,346 
47,386 
61,454 
61,339 
70,413 
49,934 
71,161 
59,531 
59,203 
43,441 
39,563 
64,630 
37,486 
77,037 
77,308 
60,178 
48,852 
82,229 
63,616 
57,426 
40,876 
56,124 
56,342 
64,672 
76,071 
54,209 
99,256 
54,355 
38,679 
Total. 
83,690 
85,030 
114,077 
75,857 
143,853 
133,235 
166,572 
178,431 
236,709 
140,024 
136,461 
151,094 
206,237 
151,287 
142,929 
112,850 
168,218 
139,994 
156,621 
108,200 
92,322 
104,753 
111,421 
133,478 
128,428 
164,545 
124,220 
192,578 
115,419 
132,432 
132,238 
107,081 
119,379 
152,390 
205,204 
138,279 
209,089 
143,069 
94,057 
Year. 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
1858 
1859 
1860 
1861 
1862 
1863 
1864 
1865 
1866 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 
1877 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
Salmon 
9,032 
9,478 
11,484 
9,522 
8,789 
5,808 
9,199 
15,299 
6,329 
4,885 
11,475 
14,614 
12,273 
8,940 
5,379 
8,467 
11,053 
7,982 
5,745 
8,468 
10,572 
12.938 
6;932 
8,682 
7,686 
17,245 
12,685 
9,967 
6,653 
8,829 
13,640 
10,271 
6,958 
6,064 
10,067 
17,525 
12,864 
7,689 
10,545 
Grilse. 
53,075 
97,102 
59,405 
33,S64 
16,855 
28,902 
43,075 
16,739 
13,952 
33,992 
46,553 
23,590 
13,952 
20,323 
15,036 
25,042 
26,239 
27,294 
13,947 
23,979 
23,448 
4,078 
9,622 
17,968 
22,198 
15,693 
18,533 
8,725 
15.430 
21,623 
14,070 
4,061 
10,641 
6,322 
25,736 
6,435 
20,266 
10,402 
18,779 
Migra- 
tory 
Trout. 
67,796 
52,541 
39,435 
49,701 
45,326 
24,773 
37,341 
32,645 
23,736 
30,597 
31,846 
41,059 
35,081 
26,052 
28,607 
20,988 
23,757 
39,250 
26,976 
44,408 
35,355 
31,605 
43,287 
22,858 
36,236 
22,260 
29,531 
18,874 
16,902 
24,450 
27,047 
20,997 
27,475 
14,222 
27,582 
19,778 
27,202 
14,983 
27,113 
A brief study of the above Table will show that, so far as the Tweed 
is concerned, there has been a great decrease in the yield of the river 
during the last period of years as compared with the first. In the first 
period of 39 years, ending in 1846, the Tweed produced considerably 
