Report on Salmon Fisherws. 
and some of them are trying to improve their fishings by introduc- 
ing into the waters the finer species of trout, such as those from 
Loch Leven. Full details with regard to the fishings in these 
waters will be found in the Inspector's Ninth Report to the Fishery 
Board, which immediately follows our Report. But it may be 
mentioned, as showing the importance of the trout fishing attached 
to some of these hotels, that no fewer than 22,000 trout, weighing 
7151 lbs., were captured in the lochs attached to one remote 
hotel on the borders of Sutherland in the course of last year. 
The heaviest yellow trout weighed 9J lbs. In the returns from 
another hotel, though the number of yellow trout is not great, yet 
the average weight is most remarkable, being no less than 2 J lbs. 
On the 12th of August last, Mr Young, the Inspector of Salmon Erroneous 
Fisheries, was requested in a letter from the Secretary to the J^in^^yf Ja^vg'^" 
Fishery Board to 'furnish them with a Report on the wording of constituting 
' the Bye-laws constituting the Districts of the Rivers Tay and 'i-g^^Ji-s^h^'^^ 
' Forth, whereby certain Rivers within the limits of these Districts Scotland. 
' are apparently exempted from the jurisdiction of the District 
' Boards ; and whether there are any other Fishery Districts in 
' Scotland in the same position.' 
In answer to this letter the Inspector drew up the following 
Report, which is dated 13th August 1890 : — 
' Report on the Bye-laws constituting the Districts of the 
' Rivers Tay and Forth, and on certain other District 
' Bye-laws. 
Edinburgh, ISth August 1890. 
* I have the honour to report that I have received a letter, dated 
' 12th August 1890, from the Secretary to the Fishery Board for 
' Scotland, stating that he was directed by the Board to request 
' that I would " furnish them with a Report on the wording of the 
' " Bye-laws constituting the Districts of the Rivers Tay and Forth, 
' " whereby certain Rivers, within the limits of these Districts, are 
' "apparently exempted from the jurisdiction of the District 
' " Boards ; and whether there are any other Fishery Districts in 
^ " Scotland in a similar position." 
' The River Tay. 
' The Bye-law constituting the District of the Tay, which took 
' effect from 10th February 1863, is as follow^s: — "That the limits 
* " of the District of the River Tay shall be — on the north, Red 
' " Head ; on the south, Fife Ness ; and that the District shall 
' " consist of the portions of the sea-coast and the estuary, and the 
' " river, contained between the said points." 
' The estuary of the River Tay extends to the east end of the 
' Drumly Sands called Abertay, and a line di-awn south and north 
' from that end. 
' The River Eden falls into St Andrews Bay several miles 
' outside of the above-mentioned estuary line of the Tay, and is, 
* therefore, in no sense a tributary of that river; and the Tay 
* District Board hold, and have always held, that, as the word in 
* the Bye-law constituting the District of the Tay is "River" and 
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