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INDEX. 



Silver wire, Tweed smolts marked by 



means of, 55. 

 Skegger, name of young salmon in 



west, 35. 

 Smollet on fish in his "Ode to Leven 



Water," 27. 

 Smolt, Age when parr passes into, 40, 



41-53. 



marking of, 54 ; time when 



they return as grilse, 56. 



Solway, close season in, 117 ; stake- 

 nets on Scotch shores of, 130. 



Scotch, when at war with Eng- 

 lish, might fish at any time in 

 waters of, 137, 138. 



in olden time left unprotected 



by law, 186. 



Spawning fish, Killing of, a cause of 



decrease, 117. 

 Spear or leister prohibited by Act of 



Parliament, 160. 

 Spenser's allusions, etc., to angling, 



25, 26. 

 Spey fisheries, Value of, 9 ; produce 



of, 12 ; value of, about 1805, 94. 



Produce of nine years' fisheries 



on, 106. 



fixed engines at mouth of, 129. 



period for net- fishing now al- 

 lowed, 171. 



Sport, Old and keenly relished, 1 ; 

 salmon good for, 14. 



Stake and bag net fishing as affecting 

 decrease, 121-129. 



prohibited in England, 174. 



first erected on shore of sea, 



189. 



Standing-nets take few sea-trout, 105. 

 Statistics, On reasoning from. 97, 98 ; 



of Scottish fisheries, 99. 

 Stell-nets dealt with by Tweed Bill 



of 1857, 154, 159 ; described, 157. 

 Stewart (P. M.) Bill of, in 1835, 146. 



Stiffness in opinion of the elder 



anglers, 37. 



Stimulating effects of ponds on breed- 

 ing of salmon, 50. 

 Stirling Statutes formerly enforced 



at, about eating salmon, 92. 

 Stoddart (Mr. Thomas) quoted, 50. 

 Stormontfieldon the Tay, experimental 



and breeding ponds, 40 ; raising of 



fish at, 225. 



St. Lawrence, Salmon in, 89, 90. 

 Suggestion to omniscient authors and 



witnesses, 33. 



Supply of salmon, decay in, 88-133. 

 affected by fixed engines on 



sea-coast, 97. 

 Sutherland, bag-nets on north-west 



coast, 129. 



TAY FISHERIES, 9 ; produce of, 12. 

 rental of fisheries in river and 



firth of, 107-112. 



nature of its bed for fishing, 



109. 



improvement on laws and 



management affecting fisheries, 

 112. 



Navigation Act, 121, 122. 



proprietors get a local Act in 



1858, 164. 



period for net-fishing now al- 



lowed, 171. 



Tecon, local name of young salmon, 

 35. 



Temperature of Nith and ponds com- 

 pared, 49. 



Tenure of salmon- fisheries as pro- 

 perty, 6, 7. 



Thames now utterly depopulated of 

 salmon, 116. 



is no longer to be a sewer, 208. 



Theories about parr and salmon, 37. 



