PART II.-REPORT ON SALMON FISHERIES, 
1890 was not a favourable year, so far as the Salmon Fisheries i890 abad 
of Scotland are concerned, only 18,931 boxes of salmon having been fishing year, 
received at Billingsgate Market during the fishing season. 
The following Table contains a return of the number of boxes of 
Scotch salmon sent to Billingsgate Market in each year from 1834 
to 1890, both years inclusive : — 
Year. 
Boxes of Scotch 
Salmon. 
Year. 
Boxes of Scotch 
Salmon. 
1834 
30,650 
1863 
24,297 
1835 
42,330 
1864 
22,603 
1836 
24,570 
1865 
19,009 
1837 
32,300 
1866 
21,725 
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1839 
16,340 
15,160 
1868 
28,020 
1840 
1869 
20,474 
1841 
28,500 
1870 
20,648 
1842 
39,417 
1871 
23,390 
1843 
30,300 
1872 
24,404 
1844 
28,178 
1873 
30,181 
1845 
31,062 
1874 
32,180 
1846 
25,510 
1875 
20,375 
1847 
20,112 
1876 
34,655 
1848 
22,525 
1877 
28,189 
1849 
23,690 
1878 
26,465 
1850 
13,940 
1879 
13,929 
1851 
11,593 
1880 
17,457 
1852 
13,044 
1881 
23,905 
1853 
19,485 
1882 
22,968 
1854 
23,194 
18,197 
1883 
35,506 
1855 
1884 
27,219 
1856 
15,438 
1885 
30,362 
1857 
18,654 
1886 
23,407 
1858 
21,564 
1887 
26,907 
22,857 
1859 
15,823 
15,870 
1888 
1860 
1889 
21,101 
1861 
12,337 
1890 
18,931 
1862 
22,796 
The salmon harvest is at all times a fluctuating and irregular 
one. But, taking the two periods of twenty-eight years each 
previously to 1890 — that is to say, the periods from 1834 to 1861, 
and from 1862 to 1889, in each case both years inclusive — it 
appears that, during the first period, 631,183 boxes of salmon were 
sent from Scotland to Billingsgate Market, and during the second 
period 688,035, showing an excess of 56,852 boxes of salmon 
during the second period over the first period. 
Estimating the value of the salmon sent to Billingsgate from Value of Scotch 
Scottish waters during the fishing season of 1890 at £5, 10s. per 8*i™on in 1890. 
