INDEX. 567 



Homers, or horn-eels, a name given in Edinburgh to the larger sand- 



launce, 174. 



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

 Horn-kieke, another name for the gar-pike, 236 

 Horse mackerel, 98-103 

 Huers, 91, 292 

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



334. 335 ; apprenticeship, 335 ; mortgaging of vessels, 335 

 Hybridism, 36 



ICE, ability of fish to live under, 38 



Ichthyopsida, definition of the term, 6 



Imbricate scales, 10 



Immature fish, injury to fisheries by their destruction, 484 



Inspectors of Sea Fisheries, appointment desirable, 50 



Insurance of fishing boats, 353. 



Insurance, necessity of a general system compulsatory on all fishermen, 484 



Internal structure of fishes, 13 



Intestinal canal, 14 



Irish fisheries. Ports from which worked, 340 ; not well prosecuted, 340 ; 



local jealousy of English fishermen, 341 ; fish principally sought for, 341 ; 



vessels employed, 341; statistics showing value, number of vessels and 



men employed, &c., 378 ; how supervised, 462 



JACKIE-DOWNIES, a name given in the Moray Firth to the bib, 148 

 John Dory, 103-108 ; rapid motion of fins, 106 ; fins capable of inflicting 

 dangerous wounds, 106 



KEELING, another name for the cod, 128 



Kellin, a name given in Aberdeen to the ling, 168 



Kettle-net, how used, 47 



King of the herrings, another name for the allice-shad, 305 



Kit, a Cornish name for the smear-dab, 208 



Kite, a name given in Cornwall and Devonshire to the brill, 199 



Kleg, another name for the cod, 128 ; and the bib, 148 



Knoud, name given in Ireland to the grey gurnard, 76 



Kunger, a Welsh name for the conger eel, 310 



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



LACUSTRINE FISH, how defined, 56 



Lady-fluke, a name given to the halibut, 187 



Lahan, a name given in the Moray Firth to the ling, 168 



Lai the, laits, local names for the pollack, 158 



Lamper-eel, another name for the lampern, 324 



Lampern, 324-328 ; used as bait for trout, 326 



Lampreys, 320-328 ; their metamorphosis, 321 



Lant, a name given in Cornwall to the sand-launce, 174, 177 



Laws for regulation and protection of fisheries, 333, 485 



