202 INDEX. 



PIERS : 



injurious effects of fixed nets erected from, 23. 

 piers and harbours, suggestions concerning, 69. 



POACHERS: 



proposed summary powers concerning, 34. 



PORPOISES: 



their habits, destruction of salmon by, 18, 19. 

 POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND : 



short survey of, 107 to 124. 

 PUBLIC FISHERY: 



fixed nets prohibited, if injurious to, 13. 



SALMON: 



present high price of, 2. 

 habits of in sea, 19. 

 quick passage of, up tideway, 22. 

 escapement of, at weirs, 26. 

 protection of, 33. 

 their time of spawning, 34, 133. 



best spawners those that go up from the sea in August, 137. 

 destruction of, when spawning, severe punishment pro- 

 posed for, 160. 

 short summary of means for increasing, 35, 

 spring salmon, remarks on, 132. 



distinct from spawners, 133. 

 salmon peal, proposed restriction as to capture of, 29. 



experiments on, at Island Bridge Fishery, 30. 

 deficiency of, in the year 1850, 157. 

 salmon-fry, their wholesale destruction at mills, 156. 



by anglers, 47. 

 discoveries relating to, 172. 



SALMON FISHERIES : 



held by Charter or patent, 5. 



antiquity of, 5. 



frequently annexed to abbeys, 6. 



statistics of, 51. 



complete restoration of, in power of Government, 159. 



SEALS: 



destruction of salmon by, 15. 



aided by fixed net, 17. 

 capture of large seal, 16. 

 small seal (phoca vitulina) remarks on, 155. 



