INDEX 



Ceylon pearl-fishing, 221-229 



dugongs, 280 

 China: fisheries, 186; river 



fishing, 180-186 

 Christianasund lobster -fishery 



168-170 

 Cleaning fish, 28, 57, 67, 97 



107 

 Close time, 21 ; salmon, 71, 73 



oysters, 112 ; seals, 311 

 Cod : Iceland, 88-99 > American, 



IOO-IIO 



" Cold Wall "current, 103 

 Collecting-boats or carriers, 107, 



121, 127, 130, 146, 202 

 Colony of seals, 305-307 

 Columbia river, 62, 64, 66 

 Congers, 54, 194, 195 

 Coral, 19, 147 

 Cormorants, 182-185 

 Cornish fishermen, 156, 173 

 Cowries, 19 

 Crabbing, 24, 173, 174 

 Crabs, 46, 119, 170-173; fresh 



water, 173; land, 172, 173 

 "Cran," 145 

 Cray-fish, 170 

 Creels, 55 



Currents, 28, 103, 168, 194, 222 

 Cutter-rigged smacks, 25, 41, 



11 3) 193 

 Cuttle-fish, 26, 210 



Dabs, 47 



Dangers of the fisherman's call- 

 ing, 28, 29, 33, 49, 90, 98, lor, 

 103, 156,237,304, 305, 314 



Danish cod crews, 89 



Diodon, 209, 210 



Dip-nets, 185, 189, 211 



Divers: pearl, 221-227; sponge, 

 2^51-259; turtle, 290; of 

 Tierra del Fuego, 211 



Dogger Bank, 33, 37, 54 



Dog- whelk, 117, 219 



Dolphin, 265-268 



Dory work, 102-106 



Dragonet, 150 



Dredge, 27, 114 



Dredging : oysters, 113-121; 

 mussels, 52; sponges, 259- 

 260 



Drift-nets, 26, 137-144 



Drum-fish, 212 



Dugong, 280, 281 



Dutch : fishing-boat, 43 ; fisher- 

 men, 43 ; Banks, 39 ; oyster- 

 beds, 122 ; whaling, 233 



East Coast fishermen, 33 



East Indies, 172, 204, 220, 289 



Eels, 200, 201 



Egypt, 204, 211 



Eskimos : fishing, 217 ; sealing, 



2 99~3 02 5 whaling, 232 

 Essex shrimpers, 42 

 Experience, 27, 28 



Faroe Islands, 92, 268 



Fighting-fish, 187 



Finns, 69, 70 



Fishermen, 27-29; attitude to- 

 wards strangers, 32, 33, 176 



Fish-wheel, 65 



" Five-fingers," 56, 117 



" Fleet" of nets, 26, 140, 161 



Florida, 130; Keys, 262 ; sponge, 

 262-264 



Fly-crabs, 46 



Flying-fish, 83, 86, 87, 210, 214 



Fox-fish, 47 



Fox-shark, 243 



Fraser River, 60-62 



French fishermen, 100, 104, 105, 

 125, 155 



French trawling, 101, 104, 105 



"Fry": oyster, 112; salmon, 

 62 



jlaffing salmon, 80 

 Galapagos tortoise, 294-5 

 a alilee (Sea of), 151 ; fishing, 

 213 



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