INDEX. 



243 



! Nations desirous of obtaining salmon, 2. 

 ' Nature of rivers varies, 112. 

 Nature designed rivers not merely 



for drains, 211. 



1 Nelson an enthusiast in fishing, 28. 

 ; Newby fishery, stake nets as they 



affected, 131. 

 Ness and Beauly, Private Bill for, in 



1860, 165; period for net-fishing 



now allowed, 171. 

 ! Ness, Former abundance of salmon in 



river, 92, 93. 



; Net-and-coble fishing, 120, 122. 

 ] Net-fishing on Tweed as treated by 



Committee of 1857, 155, 156. 



periods for, now allowed, 171. 



! Net-killing not more humane than 



hook-and-line, 22. 

 j Night-leistering on Tweed described, 



160 ; on Spey, 162. 

 Nith, Mr. Shaw's experiments with 



parr from, 39 ; on the temperature 



of, 48. 



i Non-legislative remedies, 214-234. 

 j Northern Memoirs of R. Francks 



quoted, 34. 

 ' Norway, Abundance of salmon in, 5. 



! OBJECTIONS to the angler's sport an- 

 swered, 18. 

 ! Objects of Legislature in all the 



Statutes about salmon, 141. 

 Obstructions on rivers as affecting 



salmon, 116. 

 of fishing rivers, how treated by 



English Act of 1861, 173. 

 " Old soldiers" not to be caught, 153. 

 "Orange-fin" or smolt of bull-trout, 



81. 

 Ova of salmon only produce parrs, 



40. 

 Over-fishing, great cause of decrease 



in salmon, 120. 



PAIRING of grilse and salmon, On, 81 ; 



experiment at Stormontfield, 82. 

 Paley's enthusiasm as a fly-fisher, 28. 

 Paris market, Foul salmon smuggled 



into, 178. 



Parliamentary returns, 8, 9. 

 Parr, the infant young of salmon, 34. 

 never breed nor have developed 



roe, 38. 



age when it assumes appearance 



and habits of smolt, 40. 

 premature sexual maturity of 



male, 41-43. 

 two-years' theory regarding 



migration, 44-52. 



descent of female and male, 47. 



Paterson (James), Treatise on Fishery 



Laws of United Kingdom, 131. 

 Paulin (Mr. William) of Berwick, his 



doubts and objections, 56. 

 Peaceableness of anglers, 29. 

 Peel's (Sir Robert) remark on salmon 



bills, 140. 

 Peuk, name of young salmon in East 



of England, 35. 

 Perils to which salmon are liable from 



earliest stages, 224. 

 Period required to batch ova of salmon, 



41. 

 Perth, salmon-fishery at, in former 



times, 93. 

 Pheasants and partridges injure crops, 



12. 

 Pickled salmon, export of, in olden 



times, 91 ; from Brora, 96. 

 Pisciculture in France, 221 ; applied 



to salmon, 227. 

 Plenty of olden times was partial or 



local, 88. 



Pliny on salmon, 4. 

 Poacher's time for taking salmon, 



152 ; takes the worst fish, 153. 

 Poaching on Tweed diminished, 157. 



