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INDEX. 



Mesh of drift-net for mackerel, 111 



of drift-net for pilchards, 111 



of stow-net, 1G5 



■ of trammel-net, 175 



of trawl-net, G5 



Minch, herring season in the, 313 



, line-fishing in the, 318 



" Mingle," 164 



Mode of measuring the size of mesh, 101 



note 

 Moray Firth, fisheries of, 291 

 Morecambe Bay famous for siirimps, 181 



shrimp trawling, 182 



More haddocks caught than could be sold, 



89 

 Motive instincts of animals, 132 

 Mount's Bay boats, cost of, 197 



boats, crews of, 197 



boats, description of, 196 



Mumbles, oyster-perches at, 185 

 Mussel beds in the Tees, 268 



fishing in Lerwick Harbour, 310 



■ scorps in tlie Wash, 250 



Myxine or borer, injury caused by, 273 



Naval Eeserve, fishermen in, 8 

 Nets made by macliinery, 6, 100, 312 

 " New Claddagh " in America, 386 

 Ncwhaven, fisheries at, 284 

 Noise, effect of, on fish, 115 

 Northumberland coast, early herring fishery 



on, 273 

 North Sunderland, disappearance of turbot 



from, 266 

 Norway skiffs, 309 



Number of trawlers on English coast, 96 

 Nymph Bank, discovery of, 367 note 



, large boats required for, 368 



, situation of, 367 



a good fishing ground, 367 



0. 



fishing 



on west coast of 



Obstacles to 

 Ireland, 349 

 " Oflal " fish sent inland, 13 

 Old theory of migration of herrings, 117 

 Old trawling grounds still productive, 91 

 Orkney, fisheries at, 301 

 , herring season at, 301 



Orkney, line-fi:^hing at, 302 



dried fish, export of, 302 



fisliing boats, 303 



Olter-trawl, 52, 372 



, invention of, 372 



, objections to, 372 



, possible escape of fish from, 372 



, shooting the, 373 



Ovcr-siipply of htiddocks formerly, 89 

 Oyster beds in the Firth of Forth, 284 



dredging at Milford, 183 



fishery at Arklow, 363 



at Falmouth, 198 



Oystermouth or Mumbles, dredging from, 



185 

 Oyster-perches at Mumbles, 185 

 Oysters laid down at Beaumaris, 183 



P. 



Packages for traAvl-fish, 254 

 Packing herrings at Yarmouth, 243 



lobsters for the market, 303 



2^i'chards at St. Ives, 193 



Pads, pots, and trunks of fish, 255 



"Parejas,"52 



Pegwell Baj^ shrimp fishery at, 223 



Periwinkles from the Hebrides, 318 



from the Orkneys, 303 



Phosiihorescent light in the sea, 114, 270 

 Pilchard drift-nets, 111 



fishery almost confined to Cornwall, 



187 



fishing in Cornwall, 130, 157, 188 



at Guernsey, 214 



on the Irish coast, 375 



oil, quantity obtained, 194 



, use made of, 194 



seaning at St. Ives, 157, 188 



on south coast of Cornwall, 194 



scans, different sizes of, 194 



season on the drnish coast, 130 



Pilchards, large catch of, 194 



, method of curing, 193 



, mode of packing, 193 



, spawning of, 31, 132 



, table of exports of, 196 



, where do they spawn? 131 



come inshore after spawning, 41 



come inshore M'hen ready to spawn, 41 



on the Irish coast, 130, 368, 375 



on the northern coast of Cornwall, 188 



