INDEX 



Sea-bear, 311 



Sea-cat, 196 



Sea-cow, 281 



Sea-elephant, 310 



Sea-horse, 271, 311 



Sea-lion, 310 



Sea-mouse, 119 



Sea products, 19 



Sea-serpent, 214 



Sea-spider, 119 



Sea-swallow, 69 



Sea-urchin, 118, 119 



Seals, 297-311 



Sealing, 189, 304-311 



Seasons for fish : cod, 89 ; 



mackerel, 125 ; salmon, 74 ; 



shrimps, 43; herring, 133; 



lobster, 169 ; mullet, 130 ; 



pilchard, 157 

 Seines, 26, 64, 68, 71, 148, 149, 



279 



Seine-boat, 158 

 Sharks, 124, 127; skin, 152; 



oil, 152 ; teeth, 19 

 Shark-charmers of Ceylon, 226 

 Shrimps, 23, 42, 44, 50 ; boil- 

 ing, 48, 49 ; opossom-shrimp, 



217 



Shrimping, 42-49 

 Shoals: herring, 135; mackerel, 



126; pilchard, 157 

 Shore-weirs, 124, 128 

 Siam, 1 80, 187 

 Sicilian fisheries, 153, 154 

 Signalling the shoals, 1 58 

 Signs of a shoal, 133, 149, 153, 



157 



Skate, 19, 200 

 Skins, 196 



Slaughtering tunny-fish, 154 

 Smacks, 25, 33 

 Smolt, 62 



Snapper turtle, 286 

 Sogne Fjord, 68 

 Soles, 19, 56, 117, 193 

 Soosoo, 269 

 South African fisheries, 168, 309 



South American fisheries, 204- 

 211 



South Sea Islands, 215 



Spain, 122, 148 



Spawn : salmon, 61 ; cod, 89 ; 

 oyster, 112; whelk, 175 



Spawning time : cod, 107 ; sal- 

 mon, 60-62; oyster, 112; 

 mackerel, 130; tunny, 153; 

 pilchard, 157; sturgeon, 164 



Spearing: fish, 205, 212; nar- 

 whals, 274 ; turtles, 289 



Sperm whale. See Cachalot 



Sperm oil, 249 



Spermaceti, 249 



Spitzbergen, 20, 233 



Sponge: diving, 251-258 ; hook- 

 ing, 263 ; dredging, 259 



Spy -glass for sponge fishing, 

 260 



Squid. See Cuttle-fish 



Stake-nets, 71 



Steam-trawling, 40 



Sterlet, 165 



Stop-seines, 159 



Stow-nets, 72 



Stromo : dolphin -hunting in, 

 268 



Sturgeon, 20, 164-166 



Sucking-fish. See Remora 



' ' Sulking " salmon, 79 



Superstitions among the fisher- 

 men, 104, 1 1 8, 119 



Sweep-nets, 71 



Sword-fish, 152 



Tackle: salmon, 74, 75; tarpon, 



84 



Tarpon, 82-87 

 Taxing of salmon-nets, 72 

 Terrapin, 286 

 Testudinata, 285 

 Thunder-fish, 211 

 Tierra del Fuego, 210 

 Torpedo or electric ray, 155 

 Tortoises, 285 

 Tory Island, 202 



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