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INDEX. 



Abebdeen lierriiig fishery, 289 



— ^, steam tugs at, 2S9 



Access to markets in Ireland and Scotland 



compared, 351 

 Action of the trawl, 74 

 Acts relating to Cornish pilchard-seaning, 



188, 195 

 Advantages of storing live cod, 152 

 Agreements between trawl-owners and 



fishermen, 358 

 Alleged injury to spawn by trawlers, 32 



waste of fish by deep-sea trawlers, 203 



AUman's evidence on floating spawn, 27 



experiments with herring spawn, 46 



Anstruther Union Harbour, 299 

 "Appearance of fish," 112 



, Mr. Mitchell's remarks on, 113 



Approach to land of spawning and fat 



herrings, 40 

 • spawning and half-grown mac- 

 kerel, 41 



. spawning and fat pilchards, 41 



. sprats in all conditions, 41 



Ardglass, herring fisliery at, 3G2, 393 

 Arklow, fisheries at, 363 

 oyster beds, 363 



B. 



Bag-nets, 101 



in Bridgewater Bay, 186 



near Waterford, 166, 368 



, small fish caught in, 186 



Bait, few kinds of, 4 

 Ballantrae, set-nets at, 334 



■ , spawning ground at, 331, 333 



Bandle linen for sails, 386 

 Banff coast, boats used on, 293 

 Bantry Bay, fisheries in, 376 

 — ■ , trawling in, 377 



Barking, its decline as a fishing station, 226 



, its long connection with the sea 



fislieries, 226 



pattern of trawl-head, 56, 201 



Barking the sails, 70 



Barking supposed to have originated deep- 

 sea trawling, 200 



Barnstaple liay, trawling in, 186 



Beachmen at Yarmouth, 239 



Beam-trawl, the, 54 



, uncertain origin of, 53 



Beam-trawling in the Firth of Forth, 287 



probably long practised inshure, 201 



Belfast Lough, fisheries in, 393 



BelmuUet, line-fisheries at, 389 



Best kinds of fish mostly caught by the 

 trawl, 86 



Bideford, ground-scans at, 187 



Billingsgate formerly the only large mar- 

 ket, 19 



mainly supplied from the North Sea, 84 



, increase of water carriage to, 225 



" Black jacks," 205 



" Blind-hauling," 160 



Bloaters, curing of, 242 



Blowsers, 192 



Branding fees, 297 



in 1873, 336 



of white herrings, 296 



system, advantages of, 296 



, objections to, 296 



Bratt-nets, 174 



Bridgewater Bay, fisLeries in, 186 



Brighton drift-boats used for trawling, 221 



, fisheries at, 220 



fishing boats, increase in size of, 220 



Log-boats, 220 



' Brimming,'" 114 



" British White Herring Cure," 294 



Brixham fisli formerly sent away by carts, 

 209 



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