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INDEX. 



Auctioneers of fish, 437. 



August herring-fishery at Wick, 280. 



Authentic contradiction to Pennant's 



theory, 231. 



Authorities, list of, quoted, 499. 

 Avarice of salmon-fishery lessees, 200. 

 Average age at which salmon are killed, 



207. 

 Average capture of herrings per boat in 



1820, 279. 

 Average number of crans of herring 



taken by each boat in 1862, 276. 

 Average of oyster-reproduction at Re, 



358. 

 Averages of the catch of herrings in 1862, 



Aversion of fisher-people to be counted, 



453. 

 Awkward contretemps, 468. 



BAD effects of trawling, 315. 



Bag-nets, their baneful influence on the 

 salmon -fisheries, 208. 



Bain, Mr. Donald, on the salmon question, 

 222, 489. 



Bait for line-fishing, 306. 



Bait for lobsters, 385. 



Bait for sea-angling, 158. 



Bait, importance of cheap, 410. 



Balance of nature, 33. 



Bale in Switzerland, 80. 



Bannock-fluke, the, 297. 



Bargain-making by fishwives, 426. 



Bargains made by boat-owners, 257. 



Barnet, Mr., of Kinross, 140. 



Barking trawlers, 309. 



Barrack -life in Comacchio, 458. 



Barrels, great numbers of, on the quays 

 at Wick, 268. 



Basins forthe'young fish atHuningue, 85. 



Bass, the, of Lake Wennern, 125. 



Battle of the swine at St. Monance, 434. 



Bay of Aiguillon, 412. 



Bay of the Departed, 455. 



Bay of St. Brieuc, 351. 



Beef, the stone-mason of the island of Re, 

 352. 



Bell Rock, 444. 



Benefits derived from a good fishery, 44. 



Best conditions offish for spawning, 341. 



Best kind of boats for herring-fishing, 

 272. 



Best kinds of fish to rear on the artifi- 

 cial plan, 97. 



Best spawning-ground for herring, 238. 



Best way of marking young salmon, 196. 



Billingsgate, 65. 



Billingsgate salesman's, a, letter on trawl- 

 ing, 319. 



Bird's-eye view of Fusaro, 349. 



Bit of dialogue, 470. 

 Black-beetle, a wonderful, 17. 

 Bloaters and red-herrings, 270. 

 Board of White Fisheries, 486. 

 Boat speculation by ship-carpenters, 441. 

 Bolam, evidence on trawling by Thomas, 



314. 



Bouchots for growing mussels, 411. 

 Boulogne, 454. 



Bounty given in the herring-trade, 255. 

 Brand, the, 263. 

 Breeding-ponds for salmon at Stormont- 



field, 99. 



Breeding-pyramid for oysters, 350. 

 Brewing of oyster-spat, 337. 

 Brilliancy of fish-colour, 2. 

 British oyster-eaters, 345. 

 Brown, Mr. Wm., of Perth, on the 



salmon, 194. 

 Buckhaven, 438, 439. 

 Buckie, 466. 

 Buckie fishermen, 302. 

 Buisse, suite of ponds at, 93. 

 Burning the water, 204. 

 Business, how it is conducted at Re, 



358. 



Buist's notes on Stormonttield, 111. 

 Buist's opinions about the parr, 183. 



CALCULATIONS as to herring increase, 7. 



" Caller Ou," 425. 



Cancale, 58. 



Cancale, the shell-middens of, 351. 



Canoe used by the 'boucholeut's of Ai- 

 guillon, 413. 



Capital of French oysterdom, 352. 



Caprice of the herring, 244. 



Capturing herrings with a seine-net, 

 250. 



Carlisle of Inveresk, Dr., 435. 



Carp, 144. 



Carp-breeding, 147. 



Carp-ponds, 147. 



Carriage of fish in France, cost of, 61. 



Catch of herrings in 1862-63, 272. 



Catching shell-fish, 385. 



Causes assigned for caprice of herring, 

 244. 



Cause of attraction to the male fish while 

 spawning, 9. 



Cause of the parr anomaly, 105. 



Census of Fittie, 450. 



Census of persons employed in the her- 

 ring-fishery, 275. 



Ceremonies among the eel-breeders of 

 Comacchio, 459. 



Ceremony of marriage among fishermen, 

 421. 



Ceylon pearl-fishery, 398. 



Chance fishing, 301. 



