INDEX. 



519- 



Use of the trawl-net in turning up food 

 for the fish, 316. 



VALUE of a cod-roe, 292. 



Value of boats and nets lost in the 

 storm of 1848, 330. 



Value of early-caught herring, 258. 



Value of mussels at Aiguillon, 417. 



Value of salmon at present, 477. 



Value of Scottish pearls, 403. 



Value of the close-time for salmon, 201. 



Value of the oyster stock at Whitstable, 

 366. 



Varied manipulation at Stormontfield, 

 105. 



Varieties of cod, 294. 



Varieties of Crustacea, 383. 



Varieties of fish suitable to breed in 

 ponds, 39. 



Various modes of catching crabs, 386. 



Various ways of fishing for the pearl- 

 mussel, 405. 



Vendace, the, 26. 



View of a herring-curing yard, 261. 



View of a mussel-farm, 412. 



View of Huningue, 83. 



View of oyster-claires, 357. 



View of oyster-parks, 355. 



Village of Auchmithie, 445. 



Virginia oyster-beds, 380. 



Virtues of " cauld iron," 433. 



Visit of the smolts to the sea, 190. 



Vivian, Mr., of Hull, on trawling, 311. 



Viviparous fish, 16. 



Voracity of pike, 142. 



WAGES at Comacchio, 458. 



Waiting for the fish to strike, 266. 



Walter Scott on the fishwives, 426. 



Walton's plan of hurdles for the culture 

 of mussels, 411. 



Want of a close-time a great fish-destroy- 

 ing agency, 243. 



Want of harbour accommodation, 302. 



Want of more knowledge about our 

 shell-fish, 382. 



Want of precise information as to fish- 

 growth, 16. 



Warnings, 453. 



Waste places in England suitable for 

 fish-culture, 116. 



Weather during the fishing of 1862, 276. 



Weather prophecies of the Board of 

 Trade, 331. 



Weight of trout, 133. 



Welled boats, 306. 



Welsh and Irish pearls, 407. 



Whale-fishery, the, 55. 



What has been accomplished at Stor- 

 montfield, 109. 



What do salmon eat ? 192. 



What we desire to know of all fish, 21. 



What will be the future of the British 

 fisheries? 481. 



When do oysters become reproductive ? 

 339. 



When do turbot spawn ? 287. 



When Gadidae are in season, 286. 



When herring are in best condition, 240. 



When should herring be captured ? 241. 



When white fish are in season, 300. 



Where are the haddocks ? 30,288. 



Where the best turbot are got, 296. 



Where the oyster spawn goes, 340. 



" Whiskered pandores," 377. 



Whitebait, 22. 



Whitebait found in many rivers, 22. 



Whitebait poor eating, 23. 



White-fish fisheries, the, 285. 



White-fish fisheries of Ireland, 304. 



White fish when in season, 299. 



Whitehills harbour, 321 % 



Whiting, the, 294. 



Whitstable, 366. 



Who was Ossian ? 174. 



Wick during the herring season, 268. 



Williamson, Rev. D., on the salmon, 193. 



Winter fishing at Wick, 274. 



"Wise Willy and Witty Eppie," 439. 



Wives of the oyster-farmers, 362. 



Wolfsbrunnen trout-pond, 39. 



Woodhaven salmon station, 212. 



Working a mussel-farm, 416. 



Working an oyster-bed, 368. 



World of fish, the, 394. 



YARMOUTH, 271. 



Yarmouth boats, their size and cost, 271. 

 Yarmouth, the great fishery at, 49. 

 Yarrell's account of the herring, 231. 

 Yarrell's and Buist's opinion about the 



parr, 183. 



Young's experiments on the parr, 186. 

 Yield of a bouchot, 416. 



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