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INDEX 



Sea continued : 



Fisheries, Fleeting, Process of, 



48 



Free Trade in, 47 

 Germany, Kiel Commis- 

 sion, 66 

 Haddock, Diminution of 



the, 56 

 Heligoland, Biological 



Station, 66 



Herrings, Scarcity of, 

 doubtful if due to 

 whaling, 43 

 Spawning-grounds of 



the, 49 

 Ice, Introduction of the 



use of, 47 



Increase in the employ- 

 ment of steam vessels, 



Inquiries, Seventeen, with- 

 in the last seventy years 

 into, 44 



Inspectors attached to the 

 Home Office, 1861, 

 68 



transferred to the 

 Board of Trade, 

 1886, 68 



transferred to the 

 Board of Agricul- 

 ture, 1903, 68 

 Intensity in the conduction 



of fishing, 60 

 in the conduction of 

 fishing shown b 

 experiment wi 

 weighted bottles, 61 

 International character of 



problems, 65, 66 

 Lancashire and Western 

 Sea- Fishery Committee, 

 69 



Local Committees, 68 

 Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion, 70, 71, 72 

 Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion Memoirs, 70 

 Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion, Transplantation 

 experiments of the, 58 

 Methods of renewing and 

 aerating the water in 

 fish-tanks, 47 



Migration of the common 

 eel in the Atlantic, 



5 



of the Lofoten cod- 

 fishery, 50 



by 

 ith 



Sea continue A : 



Fisheries, North Sea, 45 



Area of the, 48, 49 



International investi- 

 gations of the, 60, 71 



International 

 measures for the 

 improvement of the, 

 1902, 55 



1 Liners ' used for 

 catching fish in the, 



49 

 Otter - trawl used since 



1893, 47 



Parliamentary Committee 

 on the Sea-Fisheries Bill, 

 1900, 54 



Peel, Fish-hatchery, 69 

 Plaice, Average annual 



catch of, 54 

 Demand of, in the 

 fried-fish shops in 

 the East End of 

 London, 62 

 Diminution of, and 

 lemon-soles due to 

 their spawning only 

 in deep water out- 

 side the closed areas, 



51 



Diminution of soles 

 and plaice recorded 

 by the Select Com- 

 mittee of 1893, 50 

 Rise in the price of, 54 

 Small, increase of, 

 transplanted to the 

 Dogger Bank, 57 

 Plaice, small, Protection 



of, 64 

 Port Erin, Marine Station 



at, 69 



Price of fish, 53, 54 

 Productivity of the sea, 57 

 Relation of the ova to the 



trawl, 51 

 Royal Commission of, 



1863, 45, 57 

 Royal Commission Report, 



1866, 45 

 Salmon Fishery Act of 



1861, 68 



Sardines more valuable 

 than their adult form, 

 the pilchard, 59 

 Scottish and Irish Fishery 



Boards, 67 

 Select Committee of 1893, 



