INDEX. 



A FISHING "toon" described, 446. 



A fishwife's proverb, 425. 



A lobster-spill in the Thames, 389. 



A Member of Parliament on the fish 



supply, 67. 

 A widow's story, 463. 

 About "natives," 369. 

 Absurd statement about herring spawn, 



236. 



Absurdity of eating cod-roe, 291. 

 Across the Channel, 56. 

 Acclimatisation of fish, 125, 482. 

 Account of a fisherman's wedding-dance, 



421. 

 Account of the latest spawning season 



at Stormoutfield, 108. 

 Adaptability of means to end in shell- 

 fish, 384. 



Admiration of Scottish pearls, 403. 

 Advance of money in the herring trade, 



255. 

 Advantages of a close-time for oysters, 



338. 



Advantages of the tile system in oyster- 

 culture, 363. 



Advice to fishermen as to bait, 417. 

 Age at which oysters are sent to be 



greened, 360. 

 Age at which oysters are sent to market, 



339. 



Age of herring before they spawn, 237. 

 Aggregate sailings of the Wick boats, 



279. 



Agriculture in France, 77. 

 All fish unwholesome at time of spawn- 

 ing, 242. 

 Allston the London oyster -merchant, 



373. 



Ambition of fisher lads, 440. 

 America, oysters in, 380. 

 American pike, 143. 

 American sociality over oysters, 346. 

 Amount of attention required by a large 



oyster-farm, 365. 

 Ancient fishing industries, 40. 

 Ancient ideas as to fish, 8. 

 Ancient knowledge of the oyster, 333. 



Anecdote of a minister's visit to a fisher- 

 man, 432. 



Anecdote of a London litterateur, 379. 



Anecdotes of a fishwife, 428. 



Angler-fish, 156. 



Anglers' fishes, 129, 137. 



Anglers and angling, 132. 



Angling all the year round, 132. 



Angling localities, 137. 



Angling in the Thames, 150. 



Angling on the Tay, 212. 



Angling sport in Scotland, 130. 



Annual revenue of the river Tay fisheries, 

 213. 



Annual sacrifice to crustacean gastro- 

 nomy, 397. 



Anomalies in salmon growth, 105, 180. 



Antidote to enchantment, the fisher- 

 man's, 435. 



Antiquity of pearls, 398. 



Apparatus for catching lobsters, 161. 



Apparatus for pisciculture, 115. 



Appendix, 491. 



Approach of the herring season, 246. 



Arcachon, Bay of, 365. 



Are herrings of the same shoal all of the 

 same age ? 238. 



Are the pisciculturists robbing Peter to 

 pay Paul ? 88. 



Are there more fish in the sea than ever 

 came out of it ? 474. 



Arran, the island of, 165. 



Arrival of salmon ova in Australia, 120. 



Arctic Seas, no herrings in the, 231. 



Artificial oyster-breeding, 350. 



Artificial oyster-breeding in Marennes, 

 75. 



Artificial spawning, 86, 87. 



Art of dredging oysters, 378. 



Art of shrimping, 396. 



Art of trawling, 311. 



Ashworth's expei'iments, 117. 



Ashworth's opinion of oyster-culture, 

 354. 



Attention required by an oyster-farm, 

 365. 



Auchmithie, 444. 



