518 



INDEX. 



Stock of breeding fish proper for Tay, 

 214. 



Stock of fish kept by Lucullus, 71. 



Stoddart's calculations as to salmon 

 growth, 111, 200 



Store-boxes for crabs and lobsters, 387. 



Stories about the pike, 142. 



Storm scenes on the Moray Firth, 328. 



Storm of October 1864, 322. 



Stormontfield, proceedings at, 13. 



Striking example of the effect of bag- 

 nets on the Tay, 206. 



Summer time of Wick's existence, 247. 



Superstition as to the name of Ross, 468. 



Superstition of the fisher-folk, 432. 



Supposed migration of turbot, 296. 



Supposed spawn of turbot, 286. 



Sutherland lochs, 136. 



TABLE of oyster reproduction, 371. 



Tabular view of the August and Sep- 

 tember herring-fishery at Wick, 280, 

 281. 



Tabular view of the fish seasons, 300. 



Tabular view of the herring-harvest of 

 1862, 276. 



Tackle for sea-angling, 157. 



Tay before and after stake-nets, 214. 



Tay, the, as a salmon stream, 209. 



Tay, the river, its fish and commerce, 79. 



Tax on oysters at Billingsgate, 374. 



"Tee "-names, 466. 



Templeman's evidence, 313. 



Temperature of the river Plenty in Aus- 

 tralia, 121. 



Tempest on the Moray Firth, 325. 



Thames and other anglers, 130, 151. 



Thames, attempts to re-stock that river 

 with fish, 24. 



Thames, the, 148, 149. 



The bounty system in the herring-fishery, 

 256. 



The cause of the migratory habits of 

 salmon, 194. 



The cook and the grouse, 287. 



The Dead Man's Ferry, 455. 



The dredging song, 379. 



The eastern pearl-fishery, 400. 



The first oyster-eater, 342. 



The first oyster eaten as a punishment, 

 343. 



The herring-fishery, preparations for, 

 246. 



The food of fishes, 31. 



The greening of oysters, 359, 360. 



The herring a local fish, 229. 



The herring-fishery a lottery, 257. 



The latest English salmon Act, 221. 



The laird and the laddie, an anecdote, 

 406. 



" The man in the black coat," 433. 



The mussel as food, 416. 



Theories about eels, 18. 



Theory as to the growth of smolts, 196. 



The pearl-fever on the Doon, 403. 



The pearl-mussel, 398. 



The pearl shell-fish, 398. 



The present Fishery Board, 263. 



The senses of fish, 3. 



The women of Auchmithie, 446. 



The world of fish depicted, 394. 



Thinning the mussels, 415. 



Tiber, fish of the, 72. 



Tiles for receiving the spat of oysters 

 363. 



Time of fishing for herring, 245. 



Time required for hatching herring-ova, 

 239. 



Time when the lobster becomes repro- 

 ductive, 391. 



Torbay fisherman, evidence by a, 315. 



Total catch of Herrings for 1865, 503. 



Tour among the Scottish fisher-folk, 419. 



Tourist talk about fish, 78. 



Town of Comacchio, 459. 



Trade in shrimps, 397. 



Traffic in living codfish, 302. 



Transformation of herring-gutters, 270. 



Travelling in France, 78. 



Trawled fish not fit for market, 314. 



Trawler, a, 309. 



Trawling at particular places exhausts 

 the shoals, 312. 



Trawling for herrings, 249. 



Trawling increases the fish, 316. 



Trawling on the French coast, 57. 



Trawl question, the, 308. 



Trout produced at five centimes each, 

 94. 



Trout, the, 133. 



Tummel, river, 210. 



Turbot, 296. 



Turbot fishing, 315. 



Turbot, natural history of the, 287. 



Turtle-culture, 96. 



Tweed Acts of 1857-59, 216. 



Tweed poachers, 203. 



Tweed tables of weight and size, 207. 



Twelve fish for a penny, 89. 



UNCHANGEABLE nature of the fishing 

 class, 425. 



Unger's revival of the Scottish pearl- 

 fishery, 402. 



Unparalleled destruction of the seed of 

 fish, 243. 



Upper proprietors of salmon-fisheries 

 487. 



Uses of the codfish, 292. 



Uses of the sillock, 295. 



