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INDEX. 



Northern Ensign, the, ou the herring- 

 fishery, 279. 



North Sea white-fish fisheries, 304. 



Norway lobsters, 389. 



Note from the novel of the Antiquat-y, 

 426. 



Nothing but herring, 268. 



Notice of a hermit crab, 392. 



Notice of Newhaven fishwives by the 

 Queen, 429. 



Notice of valuable pearls, 400. 



Nova Scotia and Canadian fisheries, 54. 



Number of barrels of herring caught at 

 Wick, 278. 



Number of buckies, 466. 



Number of eggs in a herring, 5. 



Number of men drowned on the north- 

 east coast, 330. 



Number of oyster-farms in France, 347. 



Number of oysters on a fascine, 352. 



Number of shells that contain pearls, 

 409. 



Number of vessels fitted out for herring- 

 fishery, 274. 



Number of white-fish falling off, 317. 



Nursing oyster-brood at Whitstable, 

 367. 



Nursing the salmon, 15. 



OBJECTS of the English Fishery Act of 



1861, 220. 



Observations on fish-guano, 491. 

 Obvious abuses in connection with the 



economy of the fisheries, 284. 

 Occurrence at St. Monance, 434. 

 Oddities of the pearl-fisheries, 405. 

 Officer's, Dr., account of the ova received 



in Australia, 120. 



Official documents on the fisheries re- 

 ferred to, 66. 

 Official instructions to the herring-curer, 



262. 



Off to the herring, 264. 

 Old believers in old fish theories, 227. 

 One million of oysters eaten daily in 



Paris, 345. 



Open versus decked boats, 272. 

 Operations of the Fishery Board, 284. 

 Opinion of Mr. Anderson on the salmon 



question, 207. 

 Opinion of Mr. Ffennel on the English 



Fishery Act of 1861, 220. 

 Opinions of a Billingsgate salesman, 320. 

 Opinions, different, about shell-fish, 333. 

 Orata, Sergius, 72, 343. 

 Organisation for supplying London with 



oysters, 366. 



Origin of Buckhaven, 439. 

 Origin of Finnan haddocks, 290. 

 Origin of fisher colonies, 423. 



Ossian, 174. 



Our chief food fishes, 285. 



Our Lady's Port of Grace, 423. 



Our skipper at Wick, 264. 



Ova of the salmon, how it develops, 12. 



Overfishing of the herring, 227. 



Overfishing of the herring as pointed out 



by Mr. Cleghorn, 233. 

 Overfishing of the oyster, 347. 

 Overshooting, 169. 

 Owners of salmon fisheries on the Tay, 



213. 

 Oyster-beds of Colne and Whitstable, 



346. 



Oyster-beds of Georgia, 380. 

 Oyster-breeding fascines, 351. 

 Oyster close-time, 336. 

 Oyster-eaters, 343. 

 Oyster-growth, 338. 

 Oyster, natural and economic history of, 



332. 



Oyster-parks described by Mr. Ash- 

 worth, 354. 

 Oyster-pyramid, 350. 

 Oyster-saloons of New York, 381. 

 Oyster-seekers, 373. 

 Oyster Street at Billingsgate, 374. 

 Oyster tiles, 363. 

 Oyster-women of Paris, 456. 

 Oysters able to move about, 342. 

 Oysters at one time nearly forgotten, 



343. 



Oysters hermaphrodite, 340. 

 Oysters, how they are made green, 359, 



360. 

 Oysters in France, increase in price of, 



64. 



Oysters on trees, 379. 

 Oyster-ploys, 345. 

 Oysters, when in season, 336. 



PACKING herrings, 41. 



Packing of trawled white fish, 311. 



Pandore oysters, 376. 



Paper on the herring read at British 

 Association meeting, 1854, 231. 



Paper on the sea fisheries of Ireland, 286. 



Parr at a year old, 182. 



Parr-growth, 180, 181. 



Parr in salt water, 194, 195. 



Parr-icide, 200. 



Paris, revenue derived from fish by, 64. , 



Paucity of oyster-spawn during late 

 years, 340. 



Payment of fishermen on the St. Law- 

 rence, 310. 



Pearl-fisheries of Scotland, 398. 



Pearl-seekers at work, 404. 



Pearl -seekers, information for, 408. 



Peat-smoked haddocks, 448. 



