INDEX. 



573 



Say-nay, a name given in Lancashire to the lampern, 324 



Scales, 9 ; names given to various forms, 10 



Scad, 99-103 



Scattan or sgadan, a name given in the Mosay Firth to the herring, 248 



Scarborough, fisheries carried on there, 334 ; vessels employed, 334 ; payment 



of crews, 334 



Scotch fisheries, average take of herrings, 276 ; number of persons employed 

 in that fishery, 277 ; value of gear used in herring fishery, 278 ; use of 

 cotton nets, 278 ; various fisheries prosecuted on east coast, 333 ; boats 

 used, 333 ; fisheries generally worked on the co-operative principle, 334 ; 

 steam trawling, 334 ; range of fisheries, 334 ; west coast fisheries, 340 ; 

 boats employed, 340 ; co-operative principle general, 340 ; mode of 

 fishing adopted, 340 ; statistics showing value, number of vessels and 

 men employed, &c., 378 ; salmon fisheries, statistics, 556 

 Scotch Fisheries' Improvement Association, 557 



Herring Fishery Board, 449 



Sea-bague, a name given in the Isle of Man to the flounder, 216 

 ,, bream, sharp-toothed, same as common sea-bream, 66 

 breams, "Old wife," 64; common sea-bream, 66; Spanish bream, 68; 



Erythrinus sea-bream, 69 ; Owen's, 70 

 ,, cat, a name given in Sussex to the greater weever, 80 

 ,, crow, a name given to the tub-fish (one of the gurnards), 75 

 ,, dace, bass so-called in Kent, 58 



hen, a name given in Scotland to the piper (one of the gurnards), 78 

 ,, fishes of Great Britain, 1-328 



,, fisheries, their relative importance, 41 ; their value in food production, 

 42 ; views of fishermen and others as to deterioration, 42, 223-226 ; 

 should be subject to proper regulations, 43 ; methods adopted to capture 

 fish, 44-53 ; necessity for appointment of inspectors, 50 ; value of 

 periodical notices of localities of shoals of fish, 54 ; causes of falling 

 off in certain localities, 54 ; fishes caught in British seas, enumerated 

 and described, 57-328 ; antiquity of the cod-fishery, 123 ; its productive- 

 ness, 134 ; destruction of fry of all kinds of fish by in-shore nets, 274 ; 

 laws for their regulation and protection, 333-485 ; description of the 

 fisheries carried on in British seas, 333-345 ; nets used, 345-348 ; fish 

 caught on various coasts, 348-351 ; grievances of fishermen, 351 ; mode 

 of conducting the fisheries, 375 ; sale of fish caught, 375 ; settling up, 

 377 J value of fisheries in the United Kingdom and countries contiguous 

 to it, 377 ; effects of the present law as to desertions, 388 ; desirability 

 of formation of one Fisheries' Board for the United Kingdom, 464 ; 

 suggestions as to its constitution, 467 ; taking of immature fish, 484 

 ,, lamprey, 320-324 

 lice, much liked by bass, 58 

 ,, luce, another name for the hake, 163 

 needle, another name for the gar-pike, 236 

 ,, pike, another name for the hake, 163 

 ,, wolf, name given to the bass by the Greeks, 58 



Seine-net, 46 ; descriptions in use, 46 ; mode of using the net, 46 ; its use in 

 pilchard fishery, 348 



