566 INDEX. 



as to anchoring, 410 j to trawlers and drifters, 411 ; to shooting of nets, 

 413 ; to entanglement of lines, 415 ; to lifting by fishermen of others' 

 nets, &c., 415 ; to salvage, 415 ; to securing an observance of the 

 regulations laid down in the Convention, 418 

 Hake, 163-167 

 Halibut, 187-191 



Halion, another name for the saury, 242 

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

 Hardhead, a name given to the grey gurnard, 76 

 Hartlepool, fisheries carried on there, 334 ; vessels employed, 334 ; payment 



of crews, 334 



Harwich, fisheries carried on there, 337 



Hastings, fisheries carried on there, 338 ; vessels employed, 338 

 Hatches, often not properly secured, 363 

 Hearing, organs of, 20 



Henfish, name given to the female bib at Belfast, 150 

 Herrick-hake, a name given at Aberdeen to the coal-fish, 154 ; another name 



for the hake, 163 



Herring, names given under various conditions and modes of cure, 248, 249 ; 

 terms used in the trade for denoting quantity, 249 ; anatomical details, 

 250; habits, 250 ; food, 251 ; difficulty of keeping them in an aquarium, 

 252-254 ; migrations, 254 ; effect of temperature, &c., on migrations, 256 ; 

 views of Mr. Cleghorn on the herring fishery, 257 ; the Scotch fisheries, 

 257 ; early fishing deprecated, 259; the Yarmouth and Lowestoft fisheries, 

 260 ; the Devonshire and Cornwall fisheries, 261 j means of capture, 

 261-265 > '* fl 66 * 5 " of nets, 262 ; breeding, 265 ; nature of whitebait, 267 ; 

 how distinguished from sprats, 270 ; age at which breeding commences 

 in herring, 271 ; spawning, 272 ; hatching, 272 j destruction of fry by 

 small mesh nets, 273 ; mode of capture in Norway, 275 ; average take 

 of the Scotch fisheries, 276 ; number of fishermen employed, 277 ; value 

 of gear, 278 ; use of cotton nets, 278 ; value of herring as food, 279 ; 

 modes of cure in Scotland and at Yarmouth, 280 ; first use of ice to 

 preserve herrings during transit to markets, 281 ; railway rates, 281 j 

 uses, 281 ; influence of the fishery on the marriage rate in certain parts, 

 283 ; diseases of herring and causes of destruction, 283 ; superstitions 

 of fishermen, 284 ; habitat, 285 ; size and weight, 286 

 Herring brand, Scotland, 451-462 



,, nets, their construction, 346 ; how used, 346-347 ; size of nets, 347 ; 



foreign nets, 348 



Histology, its importance in the study of natural history, 5 

 Hoe, a name given in the Orkneys to one of the dog-fishes, 316 

 Holland, fisheries very important, 342 ; boats employed in trawling, 342 ; 

 sole-buying by British fishermen, 342 ; herring fishery, 343 ; large mesh 

 nets used, 343 ; mode of curing fish at sea, 343 ; boats employed, 343 ; 

 religious observances of Dutch fishermen, 345 j cod fishery, 344 ; 

 statistics showing value, number of vessels and men employed, 378 

 Home Drummond's Act (Salmon Fisheries), 490 

 Horn-eel, a name given in Belfast Bay to the gar-pike, 236 



