SUMMARYThe sport‐fishery for the Atlantic salmonSalmo salarL. has been developed in Scotland for a considerable period of time yet for various reasons there are very few details published on those aspects of the sport which are of interest to a student of any natural or recreational resource.There is a need for information on such aspects as the ownership and boundaries of the fisheries, their qualities, their capacities and their availability. This information can best be presented in map form and this paper illustrates those parameters with information which was available for the salmon fisheries of the River Conon and the River Blackwater in Ross‐shire, which are owned by the North of Scotland Hydro‐Electric Board.This sort of information would be an essential task of any reorganized salmon fisheries administration, such as the Area Boards originally proposed by the Hunter Report of
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