INDEX. 



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Pilchard nets, 348 



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



Pincher, aname given in the north of Ireland (Portrush) to the sand-smelt, 109 



Piper, one of the gurnards, 78, 79 



Pisciculturist, the, subjects considered by him, 5 



Piscinae, salt water, 40 



Placoid scales, 10 



Plaice, 204-208 



Plash fleuk, a name given in the Moray Firth to the plaice, 204 



Plymouth, fisheries carried on there, 338 ; vessels employed, 338 ; system of 

 apprenticeship not general, 338 



Poaching of salmon, law respecting, 503, 533 



Podile, poodler, or podling, a local name for the coal-fish, 154 



Pole, 211-213 



Pole-dab, same as the pole, 211 



Pollack, 158-163 



Pollution of rivers, effect on salmon fisheries, 503 ; suggestions for improve- 

 ment of law thereon, 524 



Polluted water, a cause of the destruction of fisheries, 54 



Poor-cod, name given at Aberdeen to whiting, 150 



Potaferry chicken, a name given in the north of Ireland to the sand-smelt, 109 



Poullach, a name given in the Moray Firth to the cod, 128 



Pout, a name given to the bib, 147 



Power, a name given at Aberdeen to whiting, 150 



Preserved fish, modes of preparation, 55 ; cod, 139 ; haddock, 145 



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



Provisioning of fishing boats, 363-365 



Pylorus, 14 



QUEEN, or queen-fish, a Cornish name for the smear-dab, 211 

 Quid, Cornish name for the sand-smelt, 109 



RABBIT-FISH, a name given to the streaked gurnard, 72 



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



338 



Running-pollack, a Cornish name for the coal-fish, 154 

 Ray-maid, another name for the thornback, 319 



,, mullets. See Mullets. 

 Redsole, another name for the solonette, 234 



Registration of fishing boats, 353 ; for tonnage, 379 ; effect of present law, 379 

 Reproduction, organs of, 33 

 Reproductive processes, 32, 33 

 Respiratory organs, 22 

 Revival offish apparently frozen, 38 



Roan or rawn fleuk, a name given on the east coast of Scotland to the turbot, 193 

 Rock-herring, another name for the allice-shad, 305 



herring, name given in Scotland (Aberdeen) to the scad, 99 



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



