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Tenth Annual Report of the 
total value of the Sea and Salmon Fisheries of Scotland for the year 1891 
i>2, 11 5,437. It should also be explained that there is spent in Scotland 
an amount estimated at ,£400,000 in curing fish, — that is, on wood, hoops, 
coopers' and women's wages, salt, &c. ; this sum being included in the esti- 
mated gross total value of the sea fisheries of Scotland given in the Board's 
Reports previous to 1889. 
Proportion of Of the total quantity of herrings landed, as shown in the above 
clired fish statement, 1,126,072 barrels were cured. Of the total catch of cod, 
83,144 cwts. were cured dried, and 8,886 barrels in pickle ; of ling, 
42,748 cwts. were cured dried ; of torsk, 1,813 cwts.; and of saithe, 
18,956 cwts. 
The Board have to record with regret the death of Mr Irvine of 
Drum, who as Sheriff of Argyll had been a member of the Board 
since its constitution in 1882. His place has been filled by his 
successor in the Sheriffdom, Mr D. M/Kechnie. Mr Graham the 
Secretary, and Mr Young, Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, have 
been obliged to retire, under the Order in Council which makes re- 
tirement from the Civil Service compulsory at the age of sixty-five. 
To both of these officials our warmest thanks are due for the zeal 
and efficiency with which they discharged the duties of their several 
departments. Happily, Mr Young, who is by profession a Scottish 
advocate, will always be ready to advise the Board when asked on 
legal questions relating to rights of salmon fishing — a branch of 
law of which, from long experience, his knowledge is extensive, and 
in which in past years his assistance has been invaluable. If this 
office is filled up, it should certainly embrace other duties, which 
(thanks to Mr Young's thorough inspection of Salmon Rivers) 
are now of much more importance — namely, mussels, oysters, 
lobsters, and the general superintendence and development of the 
inshore fisheries. On 26th April the Board unanimously passed a 
resolution to that effect ; and if it is thought that such an appoint- 
ment cannot legally be made under section 6 of the Statute, it 
will undoubtedly be lawful under section 4 — the only difference 
being that in the one case it will require to be made by your 
Lordship, and in the other by the Board itself on your Lordship's 
instructions. The office of Secretary has been conferred on Mr 
Eobertson, the chief clerk. 
Before parting with Mr Young, we thought it would be for the 
public benefit if the various Eeports which he has made during 
his tenure of office to your Lordship or the Board, were collected 
and printed with a suitable Index. They occupy, when bound 
together, a volume of more than 800 pages, with a number of maps 
and plans, and Mr Young has undertaken to make the Index. The 
Eeports contain a mass of useful information — -to be found in no 
existing publication — of the deepest interest to all who are con- 
cerned in the valuable Eiver and Salmon Fisheries of Scotland. 
They embrace all the Salmon Eivers and Waters of Scotland, both 
in the Mainland and in the Islands, the whole of which were care- 
fully inspected by Mr Young during the ten years he held the 
office of Inspector of Salmon Fisheries. It is believed that all the 
improvements of which the Scottish Salmon Fisheries are sus- 
