MR, WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he can now state the names of the landlords who claim fishery rights to the estuary of the Ness and Beauly rivers; and to what extent those rights extend I seawards from the Beauly and Ness rivers respectively.
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SINCLAIR,) ForfarshireI am informed by the clerks to the district Board that, so far as they are aware, the only proprietors who claim rights to salmon fishing in the estuary of the Beauly are Lord Lovat and Mr. Biscoe of Newton. The rights would apparently extend to Kessock Ferry in the case of Lord Lovat, but only ex adverso of Mr. Biscoe's land. The proprietors who claim right to salmon fishings in the estuary of the Ness are Mrs. Darwin of Muirtown, the town of Inverness, the Inverness Harbour Trustees, the Crown, Mrs. Crosbie of Flowerburn, Mr. Fletcher of Rosehaugh, the War Office, Donald Macdonald of Kessock, and Robert 1352 McLean of Drynie. The rights of these proprietors are believed to extend to the fishings ex adverso of their respective lands.