560 INDEX. 



smear-dab, 210 ; for dab, 215 ; for flounders, 220; for the common sole, 

 229 ; for gar-pike, 239 ; use of herrings and pilchards as bait, 281, 297 ; 

 bait for shad, 306, 308 ; for conger- eel, 312 ; use of dog-fish as bait for 

 shell-fish, 315 ; of skate, 319 ; bait for thornback, 320 



Ballast, proper and improper methods of securing it from shifting, 362 



Balkers, 292 



Barbels, 26, 28 



Barling, another name for the lampern, 324 



Barnock, a name given on the east coast of Scotland to the turbot, 193 



Barnstaple, fisheries unimportant, 339 



Barwin, a name given in co. Antrim (Ireland) to the common sea-bream, 66 



Bass, 58-69 



Bastard-sattie, a name given in Aberdeen to the long rough dab, 191 



Bastard sole, another name for the smear-dab, 208 ; for the thick back, 232 



Bastard turbot, a name given in the Moray Firth to the brill, 199 



Beaumaris, fisheries unimportant, 339 



Belgian "devil," 344, 352 



Belgium, principal fisheries, 344 ; boats employed, 344 ; ground worked on, 



344 



Bib, 147-150 



Bideford, fisheries unimportant, 339 



Bigger fleuk, a name given in the Moray Firth to the flounder, 216 

 Bil, billet, billard, billiard, local names for the coal -fish, 154 

 Birdie, a name given at Aberdeen to young halibut, 187 

 Bishop, a name given in Cornwall to the lesser or viper weever, 82 

 Blackback, a name given in Belfast Bay to the flounder, 216 

 Black-fin, a local name for the lesser or viper weever, 82 

 Black jack, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 



,, pollack, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 



,, sea-bream, another name for the fish known as "old wife," 64-66 

 Blacksmith, a name given at Aberdeen to the halibut, 187 

 Bleck, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Blens, another name for the cod, 128 ; and the bib, 147 

 Blinds, name given in Cornwall to the bib, 148 

 Blockan, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Bluebacks, a Yorkshire name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Boats, probably first used for the pursuit of fish, 4 

 Boddagh rug, a name given in the Isle of Man to codlings, 130 

 Boger, a Cornish name for the common sea-bream when half grown, 66 

 Bone-dog, another name for one of the dog-fishes, 314 

 Bonnet flenk, a name given to the brill, 199 

 Borhame, a name given in Northumberland to the lemon-sole, 231 

 Bothock, a name given to the bib, 148 

 Boxing fish, 371 ; danger attending it, 371 



Braden leathen, a name given in the Moray Firth to the halibut, 187 

 Bragay, a name given to the bib, 148 

 Brassie, a name given in Scotland to the bib, 148 

 Brazier, a name given in the north of Ireland to the common sea-bream, 66 



