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INDEX. 



QUAINT fishing villages of Normandy and 

 Brittany, 454. 



Qualifications of an angler, 1 35. 



Quality of the herring captured in 1862, 

 276. 



Quantity of herring branded in 1862, 273. 



Quantity of netting employed in the 

 herring- fishery, 277. 



Quantity of pilchards sometimes ob- 

 tained, 252. 



Quantity of spawn from each oyster, 

 339. 



Queensferry, whitebait ground near, 22. 



Question of fish growth, 16. 



RAPID growth of oyster-culture in He de 

 Re, 352. 



Rapid hatching of herring ova, 236. 



Rapid transit, effect of, on the fisheries, 

 36. 



Rapidity of salmon growth, 196. 



Ravages of the herring shoals by cod- 

 fish, 282. 



Raw oysters the best for the stomach, 

 346. 



Reasons of the fishermen for marrying 

 on Friday, 420. 



Recent fishing Acts for England, 219. 



Recent reports of the Inspectors of Eng- 

 lish fisheries, 217. 



Re-discovery of pisciculture, 73. 



Red-letter days of August, 332. 



Reel o' Collieston, 422. 



Regulation of British salmon-fisheries, 

 487. 



Regulation of salmon-rivers, 488. 



Regulation of the Scottish herring- 

 fisheries, 484. 



Relation between upper and lower pro- 

 prietors of salmon rivers, 222. 



Relation of the curer to the fishermen, 

 255. 



Remedies for failing salmon supplies, 

 225. 



Remy, the re-discoverer of pisciculture, 

 73. 



Rental of French fisheries, 91. 



Rental of Firth of Forth oyster-beds, 

 375. 



Report of the Lochfyne commissioners 

 on the herring, 235. 



Reprehensible feature in herring com- 

 merce, 256. 



Reproductive power of the oyster, 338. 



Reproductive power of the oyster in 

 green claires, 260. 



Return from the beds on the He de Re, 

 356. 



Revenue anticipated from licences on 

 English rivers, 221. 



Revenue from fish to the city of Paris, 



64. 

 Revenue from oysters grown in Lake 



Fusaro, 349. 



Revival of pearl-seeking in Scotland, 402. 

 Rev. Mr. Williamson on the double 



migration of salmon, 194. 

 Rhine salmon, 201. 

 Richmond's, Duke of, salmon-fisheries, 



215. 



Rights of fishing in France, 91. 

 Rise in price of oysters at He de Re, 



358. 



Rise in the price of white fish, 301. 

 Rise of a herring-curer, 259. 

 River cray-fish, 397. 

 River Doon pearl-fever, 404. 

 Rivers of France, the, 73. 

 Roaming fish, 32. 



Robertson's Tweed salmon tables, 217. 

 Rockall fishery, 303. 

 Roe of the cod used in sardine-fishery, 



254. 



Round of labour at Auchmithie, 446. 

 Routine of oyster-work at Whitstable, 



369. 

 Roxburgh, Duke of, as an angler, 130. 



SALMO FEROX, 138. 

 Salmon a day or two old, 14. 

 Salmon and herring contrasted, 15. 

 Salmon-angling in the north of Scotland, 



131. 



Salmon-culture, 102. 

 Salmon-beds in the tributaries of the Tay, 



209. 



Salmon, commercial value of, 199. 

 Salmon, double migration of, 193. 

 Salmon egg, description of a, 10. 

 Salmon-growth versus cod-growth, 20. 

 Salmon in Australia, 118. 

 Salmon, natural and economic history of 



the, 177. 

 Salmon ova, period required to hatch, 



13. 

 Salmon, progress of, in coming to life, 



12. 



Salmon-poaching, 202. 

 Salmon rivers, regulation of, 488. 

 Salmon, what do they eat ? 192. 

 Salmon-watcher's tower on the Rhine, 



201. 



Salting eels at Comacchio, 461. 

 Sardine-fishery in Brittany, 59, 253. 

 Scarcity of white fish, 313. 

 Scattering of oyster-spat, 337. 

 Scene in a Scottish herring-curer' s 



office, 469. 

 Scene in the Buckie small-debt court, 



468. 



