INDEX. 565 



Gapemouth, bass so called in Scotland, 58 



Gar-pike, 236-241 ; development of the jaws, 237, 240 



Gar-pipe, another name for the gar-pike, 236 



Garvie and Garvock, names given in Scotland to the sprat, 298 



Germany, North Sea fisheries unimportant, 342 



Gerrick, a Cornish name for the gar-pike, 362 



Gerrocks, a name given at Banff to the coal-fish, 154 



Gills, 22 



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



Gilt-head-red, a name given to the common sea-bream, 66 



Glassock, glashan, glassin, glasan, glosin, glossan, local names for the coal- 



fish, 154 



Golden haddock, name given in Arran to the "John Dory," 104 

 Gore-bill, another name for the gar-pike, 236 

 Gore-bone, a local term for the snout of the gar-pike, 236 

 Gosnick, a name given in Scotland to the saury, 242 

 Gowdnook, a name given in Scotland to the saury, 242 

 Gray-lord, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 



Green-ben or green-bane, a name given in Scotland to the gar-pike, 236 

 Green-bone, or green-back, a name given to the gar-pike, 236 

 Green-cod, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Greenling or green-fish, a local name for the pollack, 158 

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

 Grey back, a name given at Portrush (co. Antrim) to the dab, 213 

 Grey-fleuk, a name given in the Moray Firth to the dab 213 

 Grey mullets. See Mullets. 

 Grimsby, fisheries carried on there, 334 ; vessels employed and payment of 



crews, 334, 335 ; apprenticeship, 335 ; mortgaging of fishing of vessels, 



335 



Ground-seine, how used, 47 



Growth of fish, hastening and retarding influences, 29 



Grobman, Cornish name for the common sea-bream when two-thirds grown, 66 

 Guard-fish, another name for the gar-pike, 236 

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



Gunner, name given on the north-west coast of Ireland to the common sea- 

 bream, 66 



Gunner-fleuk, a name given on the east coast of Scotland to the turbot, 193 

 Gurnards, 70-79 



HAAF-EEL, a Welsh name for the conger-eel, 310 



Habitat, classification of fish with regard to, 56 



Habordine, a name given in Westmoreland to the cod, 128 



Haddock, 141 ; varieties in form and colour, 142 ; habit, 143 ; means of 



capture, 144 ; bait, 144 ; breeding, 144 ; life-history, 145 ; uses as food, 

 ' &c., 145 ; how cured, 145 ; diseases, 146 ; habitat, 146 ; size and 



weight, 147 

 Hague (the), International Convention, provisions as to lettering and 



numbering of boats, 406 ; use of some " principal floats," 410 ; provisions 



