INDEX. 



425 



'' Pit Beasons," 95 



Plaice, abundance of, in the North Sea, 91 



, demand for, 17, 91 



, spawning of, 30 



and haddocks, large catches of, 88 



PleuronectidtB, spawning of, 30 

 Plymouth, drift-fish landed at, 200 



, fisheries at, 200 



, fish sent from, 199 



, former low price of fish at, 199 



trawlers, 199 



trawling grounds, 93, 200 



Pole-trawl, 52, 371 



Poole Harbour, shrimping in, 219 



Port Letters, 180, 407 



Position of fish in a tideway, 74 



Possibility of increasing the supply of fisli, 



49 

 Prejudice against trawled haddocks, 89 

 Pi-cpaiatiou of cotton nets, 100 

 Prime and oft'al fish, 15 

 Proportion of herrings caught to those un- 



caught, 35 



of prime to offal fish, 87 



Protection of Cornish scau-fish cries, 195 



of young crabs and lobsters, 248 



Puncturing the air-bladder, 139 



a. 



Quantity of fish caught by a trawler, 16, 



88 



of fish landed at Grimsby, 253 



of ice imported at Grimsby, 256 



of ice imported at Hull, 260 



of whelks used in a cod-smack, 143 



Quick delivery of fish necessary. 66, 246, 



295 



R. 



"Eailway, completion of, to Grimsby, 252 



, fish carriage by, 11 



Kail ways, effect of theii- extension, 12, 19 

 Kamsgate, Brixham fishermen at, 222 



, number of trawlers at, 222 



, progress of, as a trawling station, 222 



trawling grounds, 222 



Rate of speed for trawling, 70, 75 

 Red midlet at Guernsey, 216 

 Eegistration of fishing boats, 405 

 of fishing boats imperfect, 178, 282 



Regulations for lighting driftdjoats, 108, 



400 

 Resistance of trawl, 77 

 Restrictions on Irish trawling, 359 

 Ring, fisheries at, 370 

 Rockall, deep water around, 307 



, difficulty of fishing at, 307 



, large cod at, 307 



■, position of, 307 



, uncertainty of finding fish at, 307 



Round-fish in trawl more liable to injury 



than flat-fish, 86 

 Royal Irish Fisheries Company, 378 

 Royal Navy, fishermen's objections to, 7 

 Ruffled water best for drift-fishing, 112 

 Rye Bay, trawling in, 222 



s. 



St. Ives, arrangement for working seans at, 



191 



, descriptirm of scans at, 190 



, sean-boats used at, 191 



, working the sean at, 157, 192 



Bay, seaning stations in, 189 



famous for its sean-fishery, 188 



Sale of cod at Grimsby, 254 

 Sand-eel as bait, 5, 217 



scans at Guernsey, 217 



Sars' discoveries about fish spawn, 28 

 " Scaith," build and rig of, 294 

 Scarborough, early trawling at, 263 



yawls, 263 



Scarcity of turbot on north-east coast of 



England, 266 

 Scotch coast divided into fishery districts, 



281 



fisheries, importance of, 334 



Fisheries Report for 1873, 336 



fishermen, industry of, 335 



fishing boats, composite build of, 279 



, cost of, 278 



, general build of, 291 



, general rig of, 292 



, iJeculiarity in the rig of, 292 



, size of, 291 



herring boat, crew of, 294 



" trawl," 51 note 



Scotland, general fisheries of, 275 



Scudding pole, 110 



" Scudding the fish," 110 



Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, 397, 403 



