INDEX. 



515 



Pennant's opinion as to the haddock, 



289. 

 Pennant's story of the herring a myth, 



228. 

 Percentage of salmon eggs hatched in 



Australia, 124. 

 Percentage of mussels that contain 



pearls, 408. 

 Percentage of oysters that arrive at 



maturity, 341. 

 Percentage of salmon ova that come to 



life, 200. 



Perch, the, 151, 152. 

 Perforated chests for keeping lobsters 



alive, 387. 



Perth as a centre for the angler, 213. 

 Periwinkle, a peep at the, 384. 

 Peter Marshall of Stormontfield as a 



pisciculturist, 111. 

 Petticoat government, 450. 

 Pickled herrings, discovery of, by the 



Flemings, 43. 



Pictures of the Dutch fishery, 42. 

 Pig-feeding by means of parr, 200. 

 Pike, 140. 

 Pilchard, the, 251. 

 Pisciculture, 69. 

 Piscicultural establishment at Huningue, 



76. 



Pisciculture in China, 69. 

 Plan of a turtle-farm, 96. 

 Plan of cultivating oysters, 346. 

 Plan of fishing adopted at Yarmouth, 



271. 

 Plan of smoking haddocks in Auch- 



mithie, 446. 



Plan of the salmon-ponds at Stormont- 

 field, 100. 

 Planting and transplanting mussels, 



414. 



Playing a salmon, 131. 

 Plea for the total abolition of the brand, 



263. 



Plentifulness of salmon long ago, 476. 

 " Please to remember the grotto," 332. 

 Plessix oyster-bed, 364. 

 Pleuronectidae, 285, 295, 297. 

 Poaching as a trade, 202. 

 Points in the natural and economic 



history of the herring, 232, 233. 

 Ponds for fish, 38. 

 Pont oyster-grounds, 368. 

 Pooldoodies, 374. 



Pope and Swift as oyster-eaters, 345. 

 Portessie, 321. 

 Powan, the, 29. 

 Practicability of artificial breeding on 



the Severn, 219. 

 Practical nature of French fish-culture, 



95. 



Prawn-catching, 396. 



Prawns and shrimps, 395. 



Preparation of the eels at Comacchio, 



462. 



Present price of haddocks, 288. 

 Prestonpans, 437. 

 Price of fish in France, 62. 

 Progress of Beef's oyster-farm on the He 



de Re, 353. 



Progress of herring growth, 237. 

 Progress of salmon growth, 179. 

 Progress of the parr, 105. 

 Progress of the ova in Australian waters, 



122. 



Progress of the people of Fittie, 451. 

 Proper stock of fish for the Severn, 218. 

 Proper time to shoot the nets, 265. 

 Proposal for a jubilee on the Severn, 



218. 



Proposal for a tax on the boats, 284. 

 Proportion of netting used and herring 



taken, 282. 

 Proportions of meat and shell in the 



oyster, 341. 

 Proposal to make each salmon river a 



joint-stock property, 223. 

 Proposal to note growth of sea-fish in a 



marine observatory, 17. 

 Proposal to sell the herring as they are 



caught, 257. 



Prosperity of the fisher-folk, 440. 

 Price paid for pearls, 405. 

 Price of three haddocks in 1790, 288. 

 Primitive hatching apparatus, 115. 

 Primrose, Hon. Mr. Bouverie, 485. 

 Principal changes introduced by Tweed 



Acts, 216. 



Private oyster-layings, 371. 

 Probable extinction of the Firth of Forth 



oyster-beds, 375. 

 Problem in salmon life by the Ettrick 



Shepherd, 185. 



Process of curing the herring, 261. 

 Process of gutting the herring, 269. 

 Produce of the oyster greening claires, 



361. 



Productive power of shell-fish, 382. 

 Productiveness of artificial system, 90. 

 Profile of the ponds at Stormontfield, 



101. 



Profit of Beef's oyster-farm, 353. 

 Profits of oyster-farming, 372. 

 Prosperity of the oyster-growers, 358. 

 Provisions of the salmon and trout Act 



of 1861, 221. 

 Public writers on the British fisheries, 



474. 



Pulteneytown heights, 264. 

 Pulteneytown quay, scene at, 267. 

 Purchasers of Scottish pearls, 403. 



