574 INDEX. 



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



Set-net, 48 ; how used, 48 



Seven-eyes, a name given to the lampern, 324 



,, holes, a name given to the sea-lamprey, 320 

 Sexes, relations of the, in fish, 32 

 Sey-pollack, a local name for the coal- fish, 154 

 Shad, popular belief that it leads the shoals of herring, 262 

 Sharks, 315 

 Shields, fisheries carried on there, 334 ; vessels employed, 334 ; payment of 



crews, 334 



Shiners, name given to the young of mackerel, 83 

 Ships, probably first used in connection with fishing, 4 

 Shipping of crews of fishing-boats, agreements, 355 ; effect of present law, 



381 j provisions of Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, 425 

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

 Sight, organs of, 23 

 Siller-fish, a name given in the Moray Firth to the common sea-bream, 68 ; 



and the bib, 148 



,, fluke, a name given at Aberdeen to the brill, 199 

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

 Silver-sides, a local name for the sand-smelt, 109 

 Skate, 318, 319 



Skeet, a local name for the pollack, 158 

 Skider, a name given in Northumberland to the skate, 318 

 Skinners, a name given in the British Channel to the young of the cod, 128 

 Skipper or skipjack, another name for the saury, 242 



Skittle-dog, a name given in Cornwall to the male of one of the dog-fishes, 316 

 Skopster, another name for the saury, 242 

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

 Slips, the market name for young soles, 226 

 Smear-dab, 208-211 

 Smell, organs of, 26 



Smeltie, a name given in Zetland to the bib, 148 

 Smooth-dab, a name given to the smear-dab, 208 



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

 Smoulds, a name formerly given in Norfolk to the larger sand-launce, 174 

 Snake-bait, a name given at St. Ives (Cornwall) to the larger sand-launce, 174 

 Snapper, name given in Devonshire to the Erythrinus sea-bream, 69 

 Snedden, a name given in co. Down (Ireland) to the greater sand-launce, 174 

 Soft roe, 33 



Soil, the fry of the coal-fish, 154 



Soldier, a name given to the elleck or pine-leaved gurnard, 73 

 Sole, common, 226-231 



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

 Soles, geographical distribution, 222 ; value as food, 222 ; alleged falling off 

 in quantity, 223 ; causes of this, 223-226 ; varieties : common sole, 226 ; 

 lemon sole, 231 ; thickback, 232 ; solonette, 234 

 Solonette, 234, 235 

 Solway Firth (the), Acts relating to salmon fishery, 550 ; limits of the Firth, 



