CONTENTS. XI 



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Salmon make Two Voyages to the Sea in eacli Year ? The 

 Best Way of marking Young Salmon Enemies of the Fish 

 Avarice of the Lessees -The Rhine Salmon Size of Fish 

 Killing of Grilse Eivers Tay, Spey, Tweed, Severn, etc. 

 The Tay Fisheries Report on English Fisheries Upper and 

 Lower Proprietors . . . . .. . .177 



CHAPTEE VI. 



THE NATURAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY 

 OF THE HERRING. 



Description of the Herring The Old Theory of Migration Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of the Herring Mr. John Cleghorn's 

 Ideas on the Natural History of the Herring Mr. Mitchell on 

 the National Importance of that Fish Commission of Inquiry 

 into the Herring-Fishery Growth of the Herring The Sprat 

 Should there be a Close-time 1 Caprice of the Herring The 

 Fisheries The Lochfyne Fishery The Pilchard Herring 

 Commerce Mr. Methuen The Brand The Herring Harvest 

 All Night at the Fishing The Cure The Curers Herring 

 Boats Increase of Netting Are we Overfishing ? Proposal 

 for more Statistics 226 



CHAPTEE VII. 

 THE WHITE-FISH FISHERIES. 



Difficulty of obtaining Statistics of our White-Fish Fisheries 

 Ignorance of the Natural History of the White Fish " Finnan 

 Haddies" The Gadidse Family: the Cod, Whiting, etc. 

 The Turbot and other Flat Fish When Fish are in Season- 

 How the White-Fish Fisheries are carried on The Cod and 

 Haddock Fishery Line-Fishing The Scottish Fishing Boats 

 Loss of Boats on the Scottish Coasts Storms in Scotland 

 Trawl-Net Fishing Description of a Trawler Evidence on 

 the Trawl Question . 285 



