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INDEX. 



Silver wire, Tweed smolts marked by 

 means of, 55. 



Skegger, name of young salmon in 

 west, 35. 



Smollet on fish in his " Ode to Leven 

 Water," 27. 



Smolt, Age when parr passes into, 40, 

 41-53. 



■ marking of, 54 ; time when 



they return as grilse, 56. 



Solway, close season in, 117 ; stake- 

 nets on Scotch shores of, 130. 



Scotch, when at war with Eng- 

 lish, might fish at any time in 

 waters of, 137, 138. 



in olden time left unprotected 



by law, 186 

 Spawning fish. Killing of, a cause of 



decrease, 117. 

 Spear or leister prohibited by Act of 



Parliament, 160. 

 Spenser's allusions, etc., to angling, 



25, 26. 

 Spey fisheries. Value of, 9 ; produce 



of, 12 ; value of, about 1805, 94. 



Produce of nine years' fisheries 



on, 106. 



fixed engines at mouth of, 129. 



period for net fishing now al- 

 lowed, 171. 



Sport, Old and keenly relished, 1 ; 

 salmon good for, 14. 



Stake and bag net fishing as affecting 

 decrease, 121-129. 



prohibited in England, 174. 



first erected on shore of sea, 



189. 



Standing-nets take few sea- trout, 105. 

 Statistics, On reasoning from, 97, 98 ; 



of Scottish fisheries, 99. 

 Stell-nets dealt with by Tweed Bill 



of 1857, 154, 159 ; described, 157. 

 Stewart (P. M.) Bill of, in 1835, 146. 



Stiifness in opinion of the elder 



anglers, 37. 

 Stimulating effects of ponds on breed- 

 ing of salmon, 50. 

 Stirling — Statutes formerly enforced 



at, about eating salmon, 92. 

 Stoddart (Mr. Thomas) quoted, 50. 

 Stormontfieldon the Tay, experimental 



and breeding ponds, 40 ; raising of 



fish at, 225. 

 St. Lawrence, Salmon in, 89, 90. 

 Suggestion to omniscient authors and 



witnesses, 33. 

 Supply of salmon, decay in, 88-133. 

 affected by fixed engines on 



sea-coast, 97. 

 Sutherland, bag-nets on north-west 



coast, 129. 



Tay Fisheries, 9 ; produce of, 12. 



rental of fisheries in river and 



firth of, 107-112. 



nature of its bed for fishing, 



109. 



improvement on laws and 



management affecting fisheries, 

 112. 



Navigation Act, 121, 122. 



proprietors get a local Act in 



1858, 164. 



period for net-fishing now al- 

 lowed, 171. 



Tecon, local name of young salmon, 

 35. 



Temperature of Nith and ponds com- 

 pared, 49. 



Tenure of salmon- fisheries as pro- 

 perty, 6, 7. 



Thames now utterly depopulated of 

 salmon, 116. 



is no longer to be a sewer, 208. 



Tlieories about parr and salmon, 37. 



