INDEX. 



517 



Scene of Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary, 

 444. 



Scene on the waters, 265. 



Scenes on the coast, 444. 



Scenery on the Tay, 211. 



Scientific and commercial fish-culture, 

 75. 



Scotch name for the turbot, 297. 



Scotch pearls in the middle ages, 402. 



Scotland for trout, 134. 



Scottish chap-books, 439. 



Scottish fishing boats all open, 307. 



Scottish fishing villages, glance at, 422. 



Scottish herring-fishery, 50. 



Scottish oyster-eaters, 345. 



Scottish pearl-fisheries, 398. 



Scottish prejudice against eels, 19. 



Scottish salmon-streams, 209. 



Scovell's lobster-pond, 388. 



Sea-angling, 154. 



Sea-fish, proposal to note growth of, 17. 



Sea-perch, 153. 



Season for lobsters, 397. 



Secret of oyster-culture, 346. 



September fishery at Wick, 281. 



September the right month for inaugu- 

 rating the oyster season, 333. 



Sergius Grata, 72, 343. 



Series of ponds for artificial breeding on 

 the Severn, 219. 



Set-line fishing, 160. 



Severn, the, 218. 



Severn, suggestion for a pond on the, 

 116. 



Sex of the oyster, 340. 



Sexual instinct of fish, 10. 



Shaking the herring out of the nets, 

 267. 



Shape of a dredge, 378. 



Shape of fish, 3. 



Shad, 25. 



Shaw of Drumlanrig, 74. 



Shaw's parr experiments, 185, 186. 



Shell-fish fisheries, 382. 



Short and simple annals of the fisher- 

 folk, 462. 



Shooting the nets, 265, 266. 



Should there be a close-time for herring ? 

 241, 242. 



Shrimp-eggs, 383. 



Shrimps and prawns, 395. 



Shrimpers at work, 395. 



Sickening of oysters, 336. 



Signs and tokens among the fisher-people, 

 453. 



Silurus glanis, 126-128. 



Silver eel, the, 18. 



Sillock-fishing in Shetland, 294. 



Size and weight of salmon diminishing, 

 206, 207. 



Size of oysters, 341. 



Size of the codfish, 291. 



Skate-liver oil, 293. 



Sketch of fisher-life in the Antiquary, 



429. 



Sketch of the river Tay, 210, 211. 

 Slaughter of small-sized fish, 320. 

 Smaller varieties of the flat-fish, 298. 

 Smelling power of fish, 3. 

 Smolt and grilse, 187. 

 Smolt exodus of 1861, 110. 

 Smolt growth, 180, 181. 

 Social condition of the Newhaven fisher- 

 folk, 430. 



Social history of the oyster, 342. 

 Societe d'Ecorage in France, 60. 

 Society of Free Fishermen at Newhaven, 



377. 



Soft crabs, 393. 

 Soles of a moderate weight best for the 



table, 298. 

 Sole, the, 298. 



Song sung by the dredgers, 379. 

 Sophisticated oysters, 374. 

 Source of the Tay, 210. 

 Sowing and planting mussels, 414. 

 Spat-collecting tiles, 363. 

 Spawn of herring just hatched, 14. 

 Spawning at Tongueland, 114. 

 Spawning of oysters, 337. 

 Spawning periods of the herring, 236. 

 Spear for killing flat fish, 161. 

 Spearing flat fish, 161. 

 Spey, the, as a salmon stream, 214. 

 Sprat-controversy, 237, 239. 

 Sprat-fishery, 253. 

 Stake and bag nets, 208. 

 Stake-nets on the river Solway, 208. 

 Stakes on which to grow oysters, 364. 

 State of knowledge in Newhaven sixty 



years ago, 431. 

 Statements of trawlers, 314. 

 Statistics of boats and herring ports, 



275. 



Statistics of Colne oyster-beds, 370. 

 Statistics of English oyster-grounds, 



367. 



Statistics of Newfoundland fishery, 54. 

 Statistics of oyster-culture in the lie de 



Re, 356. 

 Statistics of oyster-growth in He de Re, 



365. 

 Statistics of rent and produce of fisheries 



on Tay, 213. 



Statistics of Tweed fisheries, 217. 

 Statistics of Wick Herring -Fishery, 



1865, 502. 



St. James's Day for oysters, 333. 

 Steamboat travelling, 443. 

 Steuart of Colpetty on the pearl, 400. 



