INDEX. 



421 



" Gorings " of trawl-net, 60 



Gorleston, Mr. Hewett's establishment at, 



244 

 Government loans to Irish fishermen, 352 

 " Great lines " for cod, 285 

 Greencastle yawls, 394 

 Grej' mullet fishing at Jersey, 218 

 Grimsby, advantageous situation of, 250 



, cod-smacks at, 252 



, importation of ice at, 256 



, increase of trawlers at, 251, 252 



, quantity of fish landed at, 254 



, selling the fish at, 254 



, whelk-boats at, 256 



• cod-chest, 149 



cod-smacks at Shetland, 306 



fish-dock, 253 



fish-market, 254 



Ground-rope, 58 



, chains on, 60 



, materials for, 59 



, i^roper working of, 75 



Ground-sean, 159 

 Ground-seans at Bideford, 187 

 Ground suitable for trawling, 75 

 Grounds freqiiented for cod fishing, 144 

 Growth of fish probably long continued, 37 

 Guernsey, disappearance of herrings from, 



214 



, fisheries at, 213 



, line-fls!iing at, 215 



, mackerel fishing at, 213 



, pilchard fishing at, 214 



, trammel-nets at, 216 



, trawl-nets at, 216 



drift-boats, 213 



famous for congers, 215 



Gun-firing, alleged eflect of, on fish, 115, 



329 

 Giinther's description of the lierring, 125 

 Gutting the herrings in Scotland, 295 



H. 



Habits of fish when disturbed, 75 



Haddock lines, 285 



Haddocks, scarcity of, at Dublin Bay, 361 



, at Shetland, 310 



, spawning of, 28 



near the Dogger Bank, 267 



rarely caught by the Brixham 



trawlers, 90 



Hammer-trawl, the, 52, 371 

 Hampsliire coast, fisheries on, 220 

 Haudline, description of, 146 



fishing for cod, 147 



Hand-trunk for lobster fishing, 287 

 Harbour grant to Scotland, 299 

 Hartlepool fishermen, 267 

 Harwich, history of, as a fishing station, 



231 



, storing live cod at, 232 



, welled-smacks at, 231 



cod-chest, 233 



fisheries, Mr. Groom's account of, 231 



railway fish trafiSc, 234 



Hauling in drift-nets, 110 



longlines, 139 



Heaving up the trawl, 79 



Hebrides, curing white fish at the, 318 



, longliniug at the, 318 



, lobster fishing at the, 318 



, open boats at the, 318 



, returns of cured fish at the, 319 



Herring brand disregarded, 317 



close-time Act, 314, 403 



close-time Act, bad effects of, 314, 316 



close-time Act, partial repeal of, 315, 



316, 403 



close-time unjustifiable, 316 



fishery in the Irish Sea, 362 



at the Isle of Man, 338 



at Shetland 



season on the English coast, 118, 



121 



Irish coast, 120 



Manx coast, 120 



Scotch coast, 118, 119 



spawn not injured by disturbance, 46 



" Herring-trawl," 321 



Herring trawling, alleged objections to, 322 



, disputes about, 322 



, prohibition of, 323 



, prohibition of, repealed, 324 



, Eeport on, 324 



, Royal Commission on, 323 



in Lochfyne, 321 



Herrings, capricious movements of, 214, 331 



, classification of, by the curers, 295 



, disappearance of, from Guernsey, 214 



, enormous numbers of, caught, 297 



, a " last " of, 241 



, regular appearance of, 117 



, spawning of, 30 



