CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



FISH LIFE AND GROWTH. 



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Classification of Fish Their Form and Colour Mode and Means 

 of Life Curiously-shaped Fish Senses of Smell and Hearing 

 in Fish Fish nearly Insensible to Pain The Fecundity of 

 Fish Sexual Instinct of Fish External Impregnation of the 

 Ova Ripening of a Salmon Egg Birth of a Herring Pro- 

 posal for a Marine Observatory in order to note the Growth of 

 our Sea Fish Curious Stories about the Growth of the Eel 

 All that is known about the Mackerel Whitebait : is it a 

 Distinct Species ? Mysterious Fish : the Vendace and the 

 Po wan Where are the Haddocks? The Food of Fish- 

 Fish as a rule not Migratory The Growth of Fish Shoals . 

 When Fish are good for Food The Balancing Power of 

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CHAPTEK II. 

 FISH COMMERCE. 



Early Fish Commerce Sale of Fresh-water Fish Cured Fish 

 Influence of Rapid Transit on the Fisheries Fish-Ponds The 

 Logan Pond Ancient Fishing Industries The Dutch Herring-- 

 Fishing Comacchio The Art of Breeding Eels Progress of 

 Fishing in Scotland A Scottish Buss Newfoundland Fisheries 

 The Greenland Whale-Fishing Speciality of different Fishing 

 Towns The General Sea Fisheries of France French Fish 

 Commerce Statistics of the British Fisheries 34 



