562 INDEX. 



means of capture, 133, 134 ; productiveness of the cod fishery, 134 ; 



bait, 135 ; " cod-murderer," 135 ; breeding, 135 ; life-history, 136 ; 



hermaphrodites, 137 ; diseases, 137 ; uses as food, &c., 138 ; modes of 



cooking, 139 ; how cured, 139 ; habitat, 140 ; size and weight, 141 

 "Cod-murderer," 135 



Colchester, fisheries carried on there, 337 ; vessels employed, 337 

 Cold, its effect upon fish, 38 



Colemie or colmey, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Colours in fish, causes which produce modifications in colour, 10 

 Commensals, 41 

 Commerce, its origin, 4 



Comparative anatomy, its bearing on the story of natural history, 5 

 Conger-eel, 310-314 ; injuriously affected by extreme cold, 313 

 " Coopering," 368-370 

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

 Cornish salmon, a name for the hake, 163 

 Craig-fluke, a name given to the pole, 211 



Crake-herring, a name given in the north of Ireland to the scad, 102 

 Crooner, croonach, and crowner, names given in Scotland to gurnards, 76, 78 

 Crow-fish, a name given to the female bib in Gal way Bay, 150 

 Ctenoid scales, 10 



Cudden, or cuddy, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Cuideag, a name given in the Moray Firth to the whiting, 150 

 Gumming, another name for the lampern, 324 

 Cungyr, a Welsh name for the conger-eel, 310 

 Curing fish at sea, 371 

 Cycloid scales, 10 

 Cyclostomata, 320-328 

 Cyngyren, a Welsh name for the conger-eel, 310 



DAB, 213-216 



rough or long rough, 191-193 



,, yellow, same as the rough dab, 191-193 

 Damage, state of the law on the subject, 403 

 Damon herring, a local name for the shad, 263 

 Dams, used in capture of fish from an early period, 3 

 Dancing herring, another name for the allice-shad, 305 

 Dargs, name given at Aberdeen to whiting in June and July, 150 

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

 Dartmouth, fisheries carried on from thence, 338; vessels employed, 338; 



apprentices, 338 



Daw-fish, another name for one of the dog-fishes, 314 

 Deaths on board boats, provisions of Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, 



respecting, 427 



Deillion, a name given at Carnarvon to the bib, 148 

 Denmark, North Sea fisheries unimportant, 342 

 Desertions, present state of law, 382-395 

 Diamond plaice, same as the plaice, 204 

 Diseases of fish, 54 

 Dog-fishes, 314-318 ; used as bait for shell-fish, 315 



