INDEX. 569 



Maid, another name for the twait-shad, 307 



Mammalia, definition of the term, 6 



Man, Isle of, fisheries carried on there, 340 ; vessels employed, 340 ; payment 



of crews, 340 ; apprenticeship not general, 340 

 Marine fishes, sometimes resident in fresh water, 39 

 Mary-sole, or merry-sole, a local name for the smear-dab, 208 

 Mayock fleuk, a name given at Edinburgh to the flounder, 216 

 Melanism, 12 



Merchant Seamen Payment of Wages Act, 1880, its effect on fishery apprentice- 

 ships, 359 ; provisions as to allotments of wages, 382 ; as to desertions of 



fishermen and apprentices, 382-395 j effect of the provisions as to desertions 



on the fishing industry, 388 

 Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, 419-433 ; provisions as to grant of certificates to 



master and mates of fishing vessels, 420 ; classification of vessels;, 423 ; 



regulations affecting apprentices and boys, 425, 431 ; penalty for shipping 



crews without an agreement, 425 ; production of agreements and 



certificates, 426 ; payment of wages, 426 ; enquiries as to causes of death 



on board boats, 427, 428, et seq. 

 Merluce, another name for the hake, 163 

 Migration, 39 



Milford, fisheries unimportant, 339 

 Mill-dams, their effect on salmon fisheries, 528 ; state of the law with regard 



to them, 528-531 

 Milt, 33 



Moulrush or moubrush, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Mop, a local name for the haddock, 141 

 Morcath bigog, a Welsh name for the thornback, 319 

 Morglie, another name for one of the dog-fishes, 314 

 Mor Lysowen, a Welsh name for the conger-eel, 310 

 Morphology, the proper basis of classification, 5 

 Mortgages of fishing vessels, 335; state of the law on the subject, 404 ; 



evasion of liability by owner under cover of a mortgage, 404 ; mortgages 



to salesmen, 405 



Mowel, another name for grey mullet, 116 



Muckle-stanger, a name given in Aberdeen to the greater weever, 80 

 Mud-flounder, a name given to the flounder, 216 



Mullets, grey, 113-121 ; instances of their having been kept in water partially 

 fresh, 113 



red, 60-64 



,, thick-lipped, same as lesser grey mullet, 118 



,, thin-lipped, same as grey mullet, 116 

 ,, king of the, name sometimes given to the bass, 58 

 Mulvel, a local name for the haddock, 141 



Murranroe, a name given in co. Antrim (Ireland) to the common sea- 

 bream, 66 



Museum naturalist, his methods of investigation, 4 

 Mussels, their use as bait in line fishing, 53 ; effect on beds of repeal of fishery 



laws, 53 



