570 INDEX. 



NAKED bait, a name given at St. Ives (Cornwall) to the young of the sand- 



launce, 174 



Natural history of fishes, a subject of general interest, 3 

 Navigation, its origin, 4 

 Needle-fish, a name given to the gar-pike, 236 

 Nests for protection of ova, 35 

 Nets, forms now used, 44, 345, 348 



" Nine eyes," a name given to the sea lamprey, 320 ; and the lampern, 324 

 " Nine holes," a name given to the lampern, 324 

 Norway, principal fisheries, 341 ; boats employed, 341 ; freezing of nets, 341 ; 



payment of crews, 341 ; statistics showing number of vessels and men 



employed, &c., 378 



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

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



the International Convention of the Hague, 406 



OCEAN ZONES, 56 



Old wife, also called "black sea-bream," 64-66 



Olic, a local name for the ling, 168 



Orders in Council, their effect on fishing industry, 404 



Otter-pike, a local name for the lesser or viper weever, 82 



Ova, where deposited, 34 ; means adopted by fish for protecting, 35 ; nests, 

 35 ; number of eggs in fish of various species, 36 ; only partially fertile in 

 fish kept in an aquarium, 36 ; artificial propagation, 37 ; presence of 

 filaments, 235, 236 



Oviducts, 33 



PACKAGES used in transmission of fish, 464 



Padstow, fisheries unimportant. 339 



Pancreatic ducts, 16 



Pandora, a local name for the erythrinus sea-bream, 61 



Parasites, 55 



Parrs, the fry of the coal-fish, 154 



Payment of crews of fishing boats, systems adopted, 360-362 



Pearl, a name given to the brill, 199 



" Pearl-sides," 13 



Pectoral fins, their position and uses, 8 



Pelagic fish, how defined, 56 



Penzance, fisheries carried on there, 338 ; vessels employed, 338 ; payment of 

 crews, 339 ; apprenticeship not general, 339 



Perches, sea-perches, 57 ; bass, 58 



Pilchard, anatomical details, 286 ; varieties, 287 ; habits, 287 ; migrations, 288 ; 

 alleged falling off in the number captured, 289-291 ; means of capture, 291 ; 

 restrictions on fishing with drift-nets, 292 ; huers or balkers, 292 ; jowters, 

 293 ; largely exported to Spain, 294 ; and Italy, 297 ; mode of cure, 

 295 ; breeding, 295 ; diseases and causes of destruction, 296 ; value as 

 food, 296 ; other uses, 297 ; pilchard oil, 297 ; habitat, 297 ; size, 298 



