CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE FAUNA. 



Preliminary. — Topographical. — Tides. — Currents.— Temperature. — Saltness. — Professors 

 Wolf and Luksch ; their investigations in the Adriatic Gulf. — Haunts of fishes. — 

 Investigations of the fauna in the Adriatic. — Dr. J. R. Lorenz; his work on the 

 Horizontal Chorology in the Quarnero.— Zone I.— Zone II. — Zone III. — Zone IV. — 

 Zone V. — Zone VI. — Zone VII. — Vertebrates.— Sedentary class. — Shore fishes. — 

 Littoral forms. — Rovers. — Squatters. — Forms of the declivity and shallows. — 

 Rovers. — Squatters. — Forms of the deep-bed. — Squatters. — Migratory forms. — 

 Recapitulation. — Invertebrates, Articulates, and Radiates. — Characteristic species of 

 the various zones. — Extended and limited distribution. — Boreal forms. — Pisces. — 

 Fresh-water fishes. — Fishes which frequent the brackish waters. — Sea-fishes 



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CHAPTER II. 



HISTORICAL.— LEGISLATION.— THE CHIOGGIOTTI. 



Historical. — State of the coast, political and economic. — Inland markets ; fluctuations 

 of the trade. — Trawlers. — Statistics. — Ice. — Salt. — Italian fishermen. — Legislation. — 

 Privileges of the Italian fishermen. — Titles from which the fishing rights were derived 

 under the Republic of Venice. — Treaty between Austria and Italy. — The Chioggiotti; 

 their craft engaged in the Austrian fisheries ; proceeds of their share in the fisheries. — 

 Count Marazzi. — Professor Ninni. — Individual profit of the Chioggiotti. — Consul 

 Revest — Distribution of the Italian fishing fleet on the Austrian coast; value of 

 craft and gear employed. — Total value of craft and gear at Chioggia and Pelestrina. — 

 The Italian fisheries.— Italian fishing craft ; ditto engaged in the Austrian fisheries ; 

 ditto engaged in the foreign fisheries. — Value of the Chioggia fisheries. — Imports 

 and exports of fish at Venice. — Venetian fisheries. — Craft and crew. ... ... 40 



