564 INDEX. 



artificial propagation, 37 ; effect of temperature on distribution, 37 . 

 recovery of fish apparently frozen, 38 ; ability to exist under ice, 38 ; not 

 attracted by electric light, 38 ; affected by electrical disturbances in the 

 atmosphere, 38 ; migrations, 39 ; effect of sea- water on fresh-water fish, 

 39 ; ability of some sea-fishes to exist in water wholly or partially fresh, 

 39 ; instances of fish living with, or attaching themselves to others as 

 hosts, 41 ; diseases and causes of destruction, 54 ; parasites, 55 ; employed 

 as food in various conditions, 55 ; geographical distribution, 55 ; terms 

 employed to denote habitat, 57 ; British fishes enumerated and described, 



57-328 

 Fisheries department, formation advocated, 464 ; suggestions as to its 



constitution, 467 

 enquiry, 1882, 474 



Fishing boats, plan adopted in building, 353 ; registration,' 353 ; rigging, 

 354 ; insurance, 354 ; shipping of crews, 355 ; payment of crews, 360 ; 

 ballast and hatches, 362 ; provisioning, 363 ; equipment with gear, 365 ; 

 management at sea, 366-368; " coopering," 368 ; carriers, 370; curing 

 fish at sea, 371 : foorying or boxing and trunking, 371-374 ; duration of 

 voyages, 375 ; sale of fish, 375 ; settling up, 377 ; laws relating to 

 building, 379 ; provisions of Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, as to classifi- 

 cation, 423 

 ' ' Fixed engines " for capture of salmon, state of the law respecting them, 



501 ; suggestions for improvement of existing laws, 515 

 Flair, a name given at Aberdeen to the skate, 318 

 Flanie, a name given in Northumberland to the skate, 318 

 Flat fishes, 181 ; changes in the position of the eyes according to age, 182 ; 

 preponderance of females, 185 ; modifications of the eye, and provision 

 for its protection, 186 ; mode of capture, 186 ; alleged decrease in their 

 numbers, 1 86 ; geographical distribution, 187 ; are for the most part 

 inhabitants of salt water, 187 

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



,, flewke and fluek, names given to the flounder, 216 

 Flounder, 216-222 



,, lantern, a name given in Cornwall to the flounder, 216 

 Fluke, little black hairy, a name given at Edinburgh to Muller's and Bloch's 



topknot, 201 



Fluviatile fish, definition of, 56 

 Foot-seine, how used, 47 



France, fisheries important, 344 ; excellence of French boats, and of mode of 

 working gear, 344 ; description of boats employed, 344, 345 ; payment of 

 crews, 345 ; statistics showing value, number of vessels and men 

 employed, 378 

 Fresh-water fish generally unable to live in salt water, 39 



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

 French (the), boats used by them in mackerel fishery, 93 



sole, a name given at Youghal to the smear-dab, 208 : another name 

 for the lemon-sole, 231 



GAMRELS, name given to haddocks after spawning, 147 

 Ganoid scales, 10 



