572 INDEX. 



Rod, a name given in the Orkneys to the turbot, 193 



Roddan, a name given on the east coast of Scotland to the turbot, 193 



Roddams, a name given in Northumberland to the turbot, 193 



Row-hound, another name for one of the dog-fishes, 314 



Rye, fisheries carried on there, 338 ; vessels employed, 338 



SAIDHEAN, the fry of the coal-fish, 154 



St. Ives (Cornwall), fisheries carried on there, 339 ; vessels employed, 339 



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



Sale of fish caught, 375 



Salivary glands, absent in fish, 14 



Salmon legislation in Scotland, 487-557 ; Home Drummond's Act, 490 ; 

 Bill of 1 86 1, 491 ; Act of 1862, 492 ; failure of District Boards, 494 ; 

 abolition of " fixed engines " in estuaries, 501 ; extension of close time, 

 502; poaching and pollutions, 503; deficiencies of Act of 1862, 504; 

 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Continuance Act, 1863, 505 ; Salmon 

 Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1864, 505 ; Salmon Exportation 

 Act, 1863, 505 ; Act of 1868, 505 ; Special Commissioner's Report of 

 1871, 508 ; Fishery Board Act of 1882, 509 ; question of expediency of 

 superintendence of Salmon Fisheries by Fishery Board, 510 ; suggestions 

 for improvement of law; necessity for Consolidation Act, 512; powers 

 of inspector, 513 ; fixed engines, 515 ; pollutions, 524 ; mill-dams,528 ; 

 natural obstructions, 531 ; annual close time, 532 ; weekly close time, 

 533 J poaching, 533 ; licences, 537 ; miscellaneous suggestions, 538 ; 

 legislation affecting the fisheries in the Tweed, 539-549 ; in the Solway 

 Firth, 550-556. 



Salmon, white, name sometimes given to the bass, 58 



Salted cod, a name given in Westmoreland to the cod, 128 



Salt-water fish, sometimes found in fresh water, 121 



Salt-water fluke, a name given at Edinburgh to the dab, 213 



Salvage, state of the law on the subject, 402 ; provisions of International 

 Convention of the Hague, 415 



Sand -dab, a name given at Redcar (Yorkshire) to the dab, 215 

 eels, 174, 177 



eel-bill, a name given in Ayrshire to the greater weever, 80 

 ,, fleuk, a name given in Edinburgh to the smear-dab, 208 

 launce, 174-181 

 ,, smelt, 109-112; called smelt where the true smelt is unknown, 109 ; 



good bait for haddock, 1 1 1 

 sole, another name for the lemon-sole, 231 

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



Saneels, a name given in the Moray Firth to the lesser sand-launce, 177 



Sardines, young pilchards so termed when tinned, 286 



Sarding, said to be synonymous with pilchard, 286 



Sattie, a name given at Aberdeen to the dab, 213 



Sauropsida, definition of the term, 6 



Saury, 242-245 



Saury-pike, same as the saury, 242 



