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Salmon Fishing Season of 1890 unfavourable, ... vii 
Table of Boxes of Scotch Salmon sent to Billingsgate, . . vii 
Estimated Value of Scotch Salmon in 1890, .... vii 
Alterations in Close Time applicable to the Tay, . . . viii 
Opening up of Falls of Tummel, ..... viii-x 
Map showing position of Principal Natural Obstructions in Scotch 
Salmon Rivers is prefixed to Inspector's Third Annual Report, 
and full account of such Obstructions is to be found in his Sixth 
Report, ........ X 
Account of Natural Obstructions in Sixth Annual Report of 
Inspectors, ....... x 
The three chief causes which have operated to prevent the opening 
up of Natural Obstructions in Scotch Salmon Rivers, . . x 
Recommendations of the Committee on Crown Rights in Scotch 
Salmon Fisheries, ...... x 
Rental of Tay Salmon Fishings, ..... x-xi 
Answers to Printed Queries from Tay District Board, . . xi 
Salmon Fishings in Loch Tay, ..... xi 
Illicit Traffic in Salmon, ...... X'ii 
Proprietors and Lessees of Salmon Fishings cannot at present prose- 
cute for contravention of Byelaws where there is no District 
Board, ........ xii-xiii 
Remedy for this, . . . . . . . xiii 
Trout Fishing in Loch Leven, ...... xiii-xv 
Loch Awe Fisheries Improvement Association, ... xv 
Esk (Mid-Lothian) Angling Association's Report, . . . xv-xvi 
Reports from Hotels having Fishings attached, . . . xvi-xvii 
Report by the Inspector of Salmon Fisheries on the erroneous 
wording of certain Byelaws constituting Fishery Districts, . xvii-xix 
Paidle-Nets on the Scotch shore of the Sol way Firth, . . xx-xxvi 
Inspections by the Inspector of Salmon Fisheries in the Summer and 
Autumn of 1890, ...... xxvi-xxvii 
APPENDIX. 
Ninth Annual Report by the Inspector of Salmon Fisheries to the 
Fishery Board for Scotland,* ..... 1 -64 
* A full Table of Contents will be found prefixed to this Report, pages 3-4. 
