105 
Prevention of destruction of immature fish, 26, 48, 49 
* of loss of life at sea, 73-99 
Price of fish, 28, 29, 47, 64, 69, 07 
Protection of sea-fish, 19, 49 
AF spawning-beds, 23 
Purse seine-boats, 15 
RAILWAY rates for carriage of fish, 3, 52-99 
Ramsgate, size of mesh of nets used at, 10, 21 
Read, Captain (Deal), remarks by, 24, 85, 86 
Recuperative power of fish, 23, 29 
Reduction of railway rates for carriage of fish, 53, 54 
Repeal of the Sea Fisheries Act in 1868, 7 
Results of the International Fisheries Exhibition, 5 
Rye Bay fishery, 33 
SAILING trawlers, 43 
Salmon, Mr. (Grimsby), remarks by, 31, 64, 86, 87 
», propagation and protection of, 19, 30 
Saunders, Mr. J., remarks by, 73, 79 
Sayer, Mr., remarks by, 70, 72 
Scarborough, size of mesh of net used at, 9, 10 
Scotch fishermen, size of mesh of nets used by, 8, 18 
Sea fish, artificial propagation of, 28 
Sea Fisheries Act, repeal in 1868 of the, 7 
Seine-net and fishing, 14, 15, 34, 35 
” prohibition by the French Government of the use of, 15 
Select Committee on harbours of refuge, 74 
Shell-fish spawning, 45 
Shrimp-fishing, 15, 28, 29, 46 
»  trawls, 46 
Silver Pits sole-fishing, 39, 44 
Sims, Mr. (Hull), remarks by, 42 
Size of the mesh of nets, 5, 7-10, 22, 31, 37, 39 
Sizes of fish brought into the English markets, 5 
Smith, Mr. Henry (Brixham), remarks by, 21, 23, 42, 64, 78, 79 
Soles, 9, 15, 27, 28, 30, 43 
Spawn of cod, haddock, sole, sprat, and turbot, 27, 28, 30, 43, 45 
Spawning-grounds and seasons, 30, 45 
Sprat net used at Leigh in Essex, 8 
Spring herrings, 9, 16, 17 
33 fishery, 16, 17, 33, 42-44 
55 price of, 18 
Staples, Mr. Alderman (London), remarks by, 18-21 
Station for culture of sea food-fishes, 20 
Statistics of charges for carriage of fish in Great Britain, France, Holland, 
and the United States, 55-63, 65, 68-70 
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