INDEX. 



511 



Glen Sannox, 175. 



Glut of herrings at Billingsgate, 258. 



Goatfell, 165. 



Golden carp, 140, 145. 



Gold-fish in factory ponds, 145. 



Government by gyneocracy, 426. 



Gravid salmon, treatment of, 114. 



Great haul of salmon on the Thurso, 

 205. 



Great storm on the Moray Firth, the, 

 of 1857, 327. 



Greed of Scottish dredgermen, 375. 



Green oysters, 359. 



Grieve, Mr., of the Cafe Royal, Edin- 

 burgh, 288. 



Grilse growth, 191. 



Grilse and smolt, 187. 



Ground-plan of fish laboratory at Hun- 

 ingue, 82. 



Ground suitable for breeding and fatten- 

 ing oysters, 361. 



Group of Newhaven fishwives, 424. 



Growth of a fishing village, 41 9. 



Growth of a fish-shoal, 32. 



Growth of fish, 1. 



Growth of salmon ova, 12. 



Growth of the mussel in the Bay of 

 Aiguillon, 415. 



Growth of the oyster-park system, 353. 



Growth of the young salmon in Austra- 

 lia, 123. 



Guano, fish, observations on, 491. 



Gulf of Manaar pearl-fisheries, 400. 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, 310. 



Gunther's opinion of the Silurus glanis, 

 126. 



Gutters for hatching purposes at Hu- 

 ningue, 86. 



Gutters of herring, 269. 



HABITS and character of the Fittie 



people, 451. 

 Habits of fish, 316. 

 Habits of the haddock, 289. 

 Habits of the pearl-oyster, 401. 

 Haddock, the, 287. 

 Haddocks, former scarcity of, 288. 

 Haddocks, where are they ? 30. 

 Half-decked boats, 307. 

 Happy fishing-grounds, 367. 

 Harbours, 302. 

 Harbour accommodation, want of, in 



Scotland, 272, 321. 

 Harvest of eels at Comacchio, 459. 

 Hashing of young fish not peculiar to 



the trawl, 320. 

 Has the oyster eyes ? 335. 

 Hatching of salmon, 11. 

 Hauling in the nets, 266. 

 Hawkers of fish, 442. 



Hearing power of fish, 4. 

 Herring-buss, cost of, 51. 

 Herring-commence, 254. 

 Herring-curing, 260. 

 Herring-fishing at Wick in August, 280. 

 Herring fishing at Wick in September, 



281. 



Herring, growth of the, 237. 

 Herring harvest, the, 263. 

 Herrings, calculations as to size of a 



shoal of, 6. 

 Herring spawn, 14. 



Herring spawn offered for manure, 313. 

 Herring, the, described, 226. 

 Herring, the, its natural and economic 



history, 226. 



Herring, the, shoals at Wick, 278. 

 Hints to the oyster-farmers, 364. 

 History of the herring-fishery, 49. 

 Hired hands at the herring-fishery, 248. 

 Hole Haven in Essex, lobster-stores at, 



389. 



Holibut, 295. 

 Homeward bound, 267. 

 Hooks, number of, on a fishing-line, 305. 

 How a fish breathes, 1. 

 How cod are cured, 293. 

 How does an oyster lie on its bed ? 335. 

 How long do herrings take to grow? 



236. 

 How the herrings are manipulated on 



arrival, 269. 



How the herring-nets are worked, 249. 

 How the salmon-poachers proceed to 



work, 203. 



How to buy and sell fish, 427. 

 How to catch cray-fish, 397. 

 How to angle in the sea, 159. 

 How to find out a false pearl, 410. 

 How to mark smolts, 196. 

 How to test a pearl, 410. 

 How to open the pearl-mussel, 408. 

 Hull trawlers, 309. 

 Huningue described, 82-85. 

 Huningue, difficulty of finding it, 80. 



IGNORANCE of naturalists and fishermen, 



287. 



He de Re, 352. 



Illustrations of oyster-growth, 338, 339. 

 Imitation by fishermen of marked salmon, 



197. 



Importance of cheap bait, 410. 

 Impossibility of catching spawn in the 



trawl-net, 317. 

 Impregnation of fish-eggs, 7. 

 Improvement in the manufacture of 



herring-nets, 278. 

 Improvement of Scottish fishing-boats, 



307. 



