568 INDEX. 



Laws (international) for protection of sea fisheries, 329-485 ; suggestions for 



their improvement, 465-471 

 Leet, leets, lerat, local names for the pollack, 158 

 Lemon-dab, a name given at Belfast to the smear-dab, 208 

 Lemon-sole, a name given at Belfast to the smear-dab, 208 ; a variety of the 



sole, 231, 232 

 Lettering of fishing boats, state of the law on the subject, 403 ; provisions of 



the International Convention of the Hague, 406 

 Leucaethiopism, 12 

 Licences for salmon fishing, 537 

 Life saving, 481-483 

 Light, at great depths in the ocean, whence derived, 13 ; fish attracted by a 



light, 38 

 Lights carried by fishing boats, legislation on the subject, 395 ; suggestions as 



to lights which should be carried, 401 

 for vessels using drift-nets, 46 

 Line fishing, 53 

 Ling, 168-172 



Ling-drizzle, a local name for the ling, 168 

 Little sole, another name for the solonette, 234 

 Littoral fishes, how defined, 56 

 Liverpool, fisheries carried on there, 340 

 Lleppog, a Welsh name for the lampern, 324 

 Llysowen bendoll, a Welsh name for the sea-lamprey, 320 

 Lob, or lob-keeling, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 ; and for the pollack, 158 

 Lobsters, a name given to soles in Suffolk, 226 

 Log-book, regulations of fishing agreement respecting, 446 

 London, fisheries carried on there, 337 ; vessels employed, 337 ; apprentices, 



337 



Long-fleuk, a name given at Edinburgh to the long-rough dab, 191 

 Long-nose, another name for the gar-pike, 234 

 Lowestoft, fisheries carried on there, 335 ; apprentices taken by trawlers, 



336 ; vessels employed, 337 j payment of crews, 337 

 Lug, a Cornish name for the bib, 148 



Lug-a-leaf, a name formerly given in Cornwall to the brill, 199 

 Luggatee, a name formerly given in Cornwall to the turbot, 193 

 Luminosity of fish, 12 

 Lythe, a local name for the pollack, 158 



MACKEREL, 83, 98 ; names, 83 j anatomical details, 83 ; varieties, 84 j 

 habits, 85 ; times of arrival on shores of United Kingdom, 86-88 ; food, 

 88 ; are impatient of confinement, 89 ; modes of capture, 89, 93 ; "huers," 

 91 ; presence indicated by sea-fowl, 92 j bait, 93 ; value of catches, 94 ; 

 breeding, 95 ; hermaphrodites, 95 ; diseases, &c., 95, 96 ; value as food, 96 ; 

 habitat, 97 ; size and weight, 98 



Mackerel-guide, or mackerel-scout, a name given to the gar-pike, 236 

 ,, horse. See Horse-mackerel. 

 ,, nets, their construction, 348 ; foreign nets, 346 



