CONTENTS. xiii 



PAGE 



A Fishwife's mode of doing Business Superstitions Fisher- 

 row D unbar Buckhaven Cost of a Boat and its Gear 

 Scene of the Antiquary : Auchmithie Smoking Haddocks 

 The Round of Fisher Life" Finnan Haddies" Fittie and 

 its Quaint Inhabitants Across to Dieppe Bay of the De- 

 parted The Eel-Breeders of Coinacchio The French Fish- 

 wives Narrative of a Fishwife Buckie Nicknames of the 

 Fisher-Folk Effects of a Storm on the Coast 418 



CHAPTER XL 



CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



Are there more Fish in the Sea than ever came out of it ? 

 Modern Writers on the Fisheries Were Fish ever so abund- 

 ant as is said ? Salmon-Poaching Value of Salmon Sea 

 Fish Destruction of the Young Is the demand for Fish 

 beginning to exceed the Supply ? Evils of Exaggeration 

 Fish quite Local Incongruity of protecting one Fish and not 

 another Difficulties in the way of a Close-Time Duties of 

 the Board of White-Fisheries Regulation of Salmon Rivers 

 Justice to Upper Proprietors The one Object of the Fisher- 

 men Conclusion .... 474 



APPENDIX. 



I. OBSERVATIONS ON FISH-GUANO ... .491 



II. LIST OF AUTHORITIES . . . . . . .499 



III. WICK HERRING-HARVEST OF 1865 .... 502 



IV. TOTAL CATCH OF HERRINGS AT ALL THE STATIONS ON THE 



NORTH-EAST COAST DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS ; AND 

 ESTIMATED NUMBER OF HANDS EMPLOYED 1865 . 503 



INDEX ... ...... 505, 



