INDEX. 393 



Saprolegnia ferax, 9, 259 



destroyed by salt water, 14 



,, either saprophytic or parasitic, 17 



exists only in fresh water, 17 



,, experiment with, on flies, II 



,, from insects affects fish, 13 



,, has prevailed epidemically within last few years, 24 



identical with aquarium fungus, 14 



,, is cause of disease, II, 17 



,, is a freshwater organism, 14 



,, lives on dead organic matter, 17 



,, of salmon is similar to that on dead insects, II 



,, reproduction of, 16 



Saprophytes, 9 

 Sardine, 281 



Sardines compared with pilchards, 144 

 Sars, Professor, 283 

 Saw-fish, 281 



Scales, diseased, hidden by coat, 3 

 Scisena, 271 

 Scilly, 125 



Scotch fisheries boards, constitution of, 168 

 ,, ,, Improvement Association, 164, 167 



Fishery Acts, 44, 159, 171, 190. 

 ,, salmon, arrival of, at market, 8 



Scotland, amount drawn for crown leases of fisheries in, 204 

 ,, gradual decay of lobster fisheries, 328, 329' 

 ,, peculiarities of fisheries of, 150 

 ,, salmon and salmon fisheries of, 149 

 ,, sea coast fisheries, 149 

 ,, Tweed fisheries, 149, 156, 160, 162, 163 

 West coast, 292 

 Scribbled mackerel, 125 

 Scyllarus arctus, 357, 365, 366 

 Sea birds, 293, 295, 306 

 Fisheries Act, 1868, 307 

 ,, defects of, 314 



Commission, 1866, 72, 79, 89 

 geese, 295 



,, gulls, destruction of young salmon by, 153 

 scorpion, 271 

 trout, 43, 150 

 ,, urchin, 306 

 ,, weeds, 276 



Seaton, capture of pilchard at, 131 

 Seine-net fishing for mackerel, 126, 127 

 pilchards, 133, 135 

 Selection of breeding fish, 48 

 Semi-cartilaginous fish, 274 



