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INDEX. 



Curing of cod in Scotland, 293. 



Cure of herrings in Scotland,! 862-63,273. 



Curing pilchards, 253. 



Curing sprats to be sold as sardines, 



253. 



Curious forms of fish, 3. 

 Curiosities of superstition at Newhaven, 



433. 



DAILY statement of the number of her- 

 ring-boats at Wick in 1862, 276. 



Danube salmon, 89, 98. 



Dates marking chief incidents of salmon 

 life, 195. 



Dealing in herrings, 254. 



Decline of creel-hawking in Scotland, 

 443. 



Decline of the cod-fishery, 303. 



Decrease of the Scottish haddock-fishery, 

 318. 



Decreasing size of haddocks, 315. 



Dee salmon-fisheries, 112, 113. 



Delineation of flat fishes, 297. 



Demand for fish in Catholic countries, 

 277. 



Demand for oysters, 373. 



Demand for white fish, 286. 



Dempster's discovery of packing salmon 

 in ice, 36, 202. 



Departure of the herring-fleet from the 

 Texel, 45. 



Description of Auchmithie, 445. 



Description of a drift-net, 248. 



Description of a lobster-trap, 385. 



Description of a mussel-farm, 412. 



Description of a periwinkle, 384. 



Description of a trawler, 309. 



Description of green oyster-claires, 359, 

 360. 



Description of Newhaven, near Edin- 

 burgh, 430. 



Description of the lobster, 390. 



Description of the oyster, 334. 



Description of the pilchard-fishery, 252. 



Design for a complete suite of salmon- 

 ponds, 103. 



Desire for more herring statistics, 283. 



Destruction of young fish, 478. 



Destructive power of the trawl-net, 308. 



Development of the herring, 240. 



Dexterity of the herring-gutters, 270. 



Diagram of herring-netting and tish, 282. 



Dialect of the Moray Firth fisher-folk, 

 469. 



Dialogue between a fishwife and her 

 customer, 427. 



Differences in size, shape, and flavour of 

 the herrings of different places, 230. 



Different countries mxist have different 

 fishing seasons, 299. 



Different kinds of cured herrings, 271. 



Different kinds of sea-fish, 155. 



Difficulties in the way of collecting spat, 

 362. 



Difficulties of obtaining accurate infor- 

 mation about the herring, 235. 



Difficulty of obtaining statistics of fish- 

 eries, 66, 285. 



Dimensions of the great keer, 228. 



Diminution of lobsters, 318. 



Discipline of Comacchio, 457. 



Disparity in size of young salmon, 106. 



Distinct races of herrings, 230. 



Dish of crablets, 344. 



Distribution of cured eels, 462. 



Distribution of fish, 37. 



Diving for pearls in Scotland, 407. 



Division of labour in Fittie, 450. 



Do fish live a separate life ? 9. 



Does an oyster yield its young in mil- 

 lions ? 339. 



Dogfish, diminution of, in 1862, 274. 



Dogger Bank fishery, 303. 



Doon pearl-fishery, 408. 



Doon pearls inferior, 409. 



Do the herring live singly up till the 

 period of spawning ? 238. 



Double migration of the salmon, 193. 



Doubts as to former abundance of fish, 

 479. 



Dr. Dod on the herring and sprat, 239. 



Drawbacks to oyster-farming in France, 

 354. 



Drawing of a two-year-old smolt, 189. 



Drawings of the pearl-mussel, 399. 



Dredging for oysters at Cockenzie, 377. 



Dredging for pearls, 407. 



Dress of a Newhaven fishwife described, 

 429. 



Drift versus trawl nets, 250. 



Dunbar herring-fleet, 443. 



Duke of Athole's marked fish, 190. 



Dutch fishing industry, 41. 



Duties of fishermen, 490. 



Duty charged on French fish, 61. 



Duty of the coopers at the herring 

 curing, 262. 



EARLY fish commerce, 35. 

 Earnings of trawlers, 319. 

 Economy of the herring shoals, 277. 

 Edible Crustacea described, 391. 

 Edible molluscs, 384. 

 Edinburgh oyster-ploys, 345. 

 Edinburgh oyster-taverns, 345. 

 Eel-breeders, the, of Comacchio, 45. 

 Eel-cooking at Comacchio, 460. 

 Eel-curing at Comacchio, 461. 

 Eel-fair, 19. 

 Eel, the, 17. 



