of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 
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fish caught in 1890. The others give no return with regard to this. 
But it is hoped that, in future, this defect may he remedied. From 
these ten hotels which send returns, I hud that 98 salmon and grilse, 
670 sea-trout, and 33,009 yellow trout were caught in 1890. If we 
estimate — as regards yellow trout only — that the twenty-two hotels, which 
have not answered my queries as to number and weight of fish caught, 
had the same average as those which have sent returns, we get upwards 
of 100,000 as the number of yellow trout captured in the waters attached 
to the thirty-two hotels. But, if we take into consideration that thirty- 
other hotels send no returns of any kind, it seems not improbable that 
the number of trout killed in hotel waters in Scotland in 1890 was not 
far short of 200,000. And this does not include the numbers killed in 
the Clyde and its tributaries, and the Tweed and its tributaries, which 
can be easily reached from the great centres of population in Edinburgh 
and Glasgow, and many other streams and waters in Scotland. 
The number of anglers is increasing year by year as the facilities for 
travelling are augmenting by railway and steamer ; and the period does 
not seem far distant when nothing but artificial breeding on a great scale 
will supply the immense annual destruction. There is at present no a Close Time 
annual close time for trout and char in Scotland, such as there is in for Trout. 
England and Ireland; and many persons well qualified to judge are 
opposed to a close time for trout in our great salmon rivers, as trout are 
great destroyers of salmon ova and fry. But there might, at all events, 
be a close time for trout in the numerous lochs and streams not frequented 
by salmon. 
At present, only about a third of the hotelkeepers who have sent me Artificial 
answers appear to make any attempt to stock their waters with the finer 
kinds of trout. Mr Angus Morrison, of the Melvich Hotel, Sutherland, ° ^ eepers. 
states that he hatched out 43,000 ova during the last two years, and 
stocked several lochs in the neighbourhood with Loch Leven trout. Mr 
Eraser, of the Loch Awe and Dalmally Hotels, has put a number of Loch 
Leven trout into Loch Awe ; and the landlord of Forsinard Hotel gets 
Loch Leven fry from the Duke of Sutherland's Hatchery at Brora to stock 
his lochs with. At Culfail, Mr John M'Fadyen states that he has 
stocked the numerous lochs in his neighbourhood with Loch Leven trout 
and American brook trout every year for the last ten years. Mr Donald 
Ferguson, from the Stronachlachar Hotel, writes : — 
A few thousand two-year-old Loch Leven trout were put into Loch Katrine 
a few years ago, and also some trout were introduced from Loch Arklet, an 
adjoining lake celebrated for the high quality of its trout. 
Mr Fleischman, of the Invergloy Hotel on the banks of Loch Loch}-, 
writes that he intends building a Hatchery to rear salmon and trout; and 
the landlord of the Panmure Arms Hotel, on the North Esk, says that, 
some years ago. Loch Leven trout were put into the river, and that, 
during the last year or two, some fine trout have been caught which are 
supposed to be the result of the fry introduced. Mr ^I'Nab, of the Luss 
Hotel on Loch Lomond, states that he hatched out from 8000 to 10,000 
salmon ova last year; but, as he understands that the nets are to be put 
on the Leven this year, he has no longer any interest in going on with 
his hatching operations. At Inchnadamph, one of the best fishing 
stations in Suthcrlandshire, there is, and has for some time, been a 
Hatchery. 
Increase in the fishings is reported from the hotels at Loch Awe, stations wher* 
Dalmally, and Taycreggan on Loch Awe, while, at Port Sonachan on the fishing has 
same loch, it is said to be much the same as it has been for several years, ^"oreased. 
