512 



INDEX. 



Improvement of the salmon-fisheries,22 4. 

 Increase in tlie quantity of netting used 



at the herring-fishery, 277, 278. 

 Increase of boats and fishermen, 313. 

 Increase of the enemies of the herring, 



242. 



Increase of the herring, 7. 

 Incubation-hall at Huningue, 84. 

 Incubation of oyster-ova, 337. 

 Industry of the women at Auchmithie, 



447. 



Industry at Fisherrow, 436. 

 Industry of Buckhaven men, 439. 

 Industry of fishwives, 425. 

 Inferiority of Doon pearls, 409. 

 Information about the fisher-folk, 422. 

 Information as to the colour and struc- 

 ture of pearls, 409. 

 Information for pearl-seekers, 408. 

 Information for the Lord Provost of 



Edinburgh, 376. 



Instinct of the salmon for change, 188. 

 Interior of a fisherman's house, 430. 

 Introduction into British waters of 



strange fishes, 482. 

 Invention of mussel-culture, 410. 

 Inventor of the first oyster-pond, 343. 

 Investigation by the Town Council of 



Edinburgh into the state of their 



oyster-beds, 376. 

 Irish and Welsh pearls, 407. 

 Irish fish-carriage, 63. 

 Irish haddocks, 289. 

 Irish lobsters, 388. 

 Irish oyster blue-book, 371. 

 Irish white-fish fisheries, 304. 

 Italian fable, 452. 

 Italian pisciculture, 71. 

 Italian oyster-eaters, 344. 



JACK in his element, drawing of, 141. 



Jacobi's experiments in artificial fish- 

 breeding, 74. 



Johnstone on the salmon-fisheries, 216. 



Joint-stock fishing system, 441. 



Joint-stock oyster company at Whit- 

 stable, 366. 



Juries for regulating the oyster-fisheries, 

 371. 



Justice to upper proprietors of salmon- 

 fisheries, 487. 



Juvenile fisher-folk, 430. 



KEEPING adult salmon till ripe for 



spawning, 107. 



Kelaart's account of the pearl, 401. 

 Kemmerer's, Dr., tiles for oyster-culture, 



361. 

 Killing of grilse hurtful to the fisheries, 



207. 



Kinsale oysters, 374. 



Kitchen at Comacchio, 460. 



Knox, Dr., opinion of the parr, 182. 



LABOUKS of Gehin and Kemy in pisci- 

 culture, 76. 

 Lake Fusaro, 348. 

 Land-crabs, 393. 

 Laud of a thousand lochs, 136. 

 Latest achievement in pisciculture, 126. 

 Laws devised for self-government at lie 



de Re, 357. 



Legal mode of capturing the herring, 248. 

 Legend of the first oyster-eater, 342. 

 Legend of the island of Sein, 455. 

 Leistering salmon, 204. 

 Length of white-fish fishing-lines, 305. 

 Lent, fish required during, 277. 

 Line-fishing, 306. 

 List of authorities, 499. 

 List of rivers in which the best pearls 



have been found, 406. 

 Living codfish, traffic in, 302. 

 Living Crustacea, 387. 

 Lobster-bait, 162. 

 Lobstei-s " in berry," 393. 

 Lobster-commerce, 337. 

 Lobster-farming, 385. 

 Lobsters good for food all the year round, 



398. 



Localities for sea-angling, 162. 

 Loch Awe trout, 138. 

 Lochfyne herring, 28. 

 Lochfyne, view of, 249. 

 Lochleven pike, 140. 

 Lochleven trout, 28, 139. 

 Lochmaben, 27. 

 Logan fish-pond, 39. 

 London demand for shell-fish, 385. 

 London fish-supply, inquiries into the, 



285. 



London oyster-saloons, 373. 

 Lord Advocate's salmon bill of 1862, 



205. 



Loss of the " Shamrock," 322. 

 Lottery nature of the herring-fishery, 



267. 

 Love of oysters by the ancient Romans, 



380. 

 Lowe's, Mr.. James, opinion about the 



position of the oyster, 335. 

 Low state of the English salmon-fisheries, 



217. 



Luck a creed of the fishermen, 257. 

 Lucullus, 344. 



MACHINERY of fish-capture, 305. 

 Machinery of herring-capture, 248. 

 Mackerel-fishery, 299. 

 Mackerel-growth, 21. 



