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INDEX. 



Sean, the, 157 



, ground or foot, 159 



stop, 157 



tuck, 158 



, working tlie, 157 



boats at St. Ives, 191 



• fishery at Brighton, 221 



at the Cliesil Beach, 159, 212 



Sean-pishing, 156 



, long practice of, 156 



, sui^posed introduction of, 156 



Seaning ground at St. Ives, 189 



regulations at St. Ives, 189 



Seans, classes of, 156 



, general descrij^tion of, 157 



" Sean-trawling," 321 note 

 Seasons for drift-fishing, 116 

 Selling the fish at Grimsby, 254 

 Set-nets, 173 



, description of, 173 



■ , fish caught by, 174 



sometimes called trammels, 173 



Share system with trawlers, 210, 246, 258 

 Sheep-skin buoys, 300 

 Shetland, bait used at, 310 



, cured fish at, 306 



, fisheries at, 304 



, fishing grounds at, 305 



, fish-oil made at, 310 



■ , whaling at, 310 



cod-smacks, 305 



■ cured fish, returns of, 312 



yawls, 309 



Shetlanders a hardy race, 31 1 



■ proud of their Norse descent, 311 



Shooting the drift-nets, 106 



the longlines, 138 



the beam-trawl, 71 



the otter-trawl, 373 



Shrimping in Bridgewater Bay, 186 



• at Cleethorpes, 256 



• at Pegwell Bay, 223 



Shrimping ground in the Thames, 228 

 Shrimp-nets used in the Thames, 227 

 Shrimps sent from Leigh, 229 

 Shrimp trawling in Morecambe Bay, 181 



in the Thames, 229 



in the Wash, 250 



Silver Pit, discovery of, 94 



very productive in hard winters, 



95 

 Skerries wherry, 360 



Slapton Cellars once a curing place for 



pilcliards, 212 

 Sligo Bay, fisheries in, 389 

 Small cod caught inshore, 147 



fish baits to large ones, 38 



herrings far from the land, 40 



• proportion of dead fish in the trawl, 87 



of ground trawled over, 47 



Smoked haddocks at Eyemouth, 285 



, trade in, 89, 256 



Solent, stow-boating iu the, 219 

 Soles caught by spilliards, 379 



from tlie Norfolk coast, 90 



■ in the Silver Pit, 95 



mostly sent to Billingsgate, 99 



on clean sandy groimd, 90 



Solway, fisheries in the, 334 

 SounJ, transmission of, 115 

 Spanish trawl, 52 

 Spawn, enemies to, 37 



drifted into bays, 43 



out of bays, 43 



eaten by fishes, 32, 37 



Spawning habits of sea fish, 26 

 Spawning of tiie cod, 28 



Gadida3, 29 



haddock, 28 



herring, 30 



mackerel, 29 



pilchard, 31 



plaice, 30 



Pleuronectidse, 30 



sprat, 133 



Spawning plaice on the Doggerbauk, 42 



season of herrings, 119, 120 



of mackerel, 128 



of sprats, 133 



Spilliard or spiller (see Longline). 

 Sprat fishery in Beauly Firth, 291 



in the Firth of Forth, 286 



at Inver, 389 



at Passage, 166, 368 



at Plymoutli, 200 



■ at Kamsgate, 135 



in the Solent, 219 



in the Thames, 161, 223 



in Torbay, 211 



in the Wash, 161, 249 



Sprats, drift-fishing for, 134, 135 



, periodical appearance of, 133 



, season for fishing, 133 



, spawning time of, 133 



