INDEX. 



575 



550 j law as to close season, 551 ; mesh of nets, 551 ; fixed engines, 551 ; 

 recommendations in Report of Solway Commissioners, 1880, 552-556 

 Sound, organs of, 31 



Sounds, voluntary and involuntary, produced by fish, 31 

 Spanish bream, 68, 69 



Spanish mackerel, a name said to be given to the gar-pike, 236 

 Spanker-eel, a name given in Northumberland to the lampern, 324 

 Spawn, different meanings attached to the term, 49 

 Spawning, 36 



Spearling, a name given at Portrush to the gar-pike, 236 

 Speldrings (dried haddocks), 141 

 Spineless fishes (Anacanthini), 121 

 Spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthopterygii), 57-121 

 Spitalfields weaver, name given to the greater weever, 81 

 Spotted ling, a local name for the ling, 168 

 Sprat, 298-305; value as food, 303; tinned as "anchovies," 303; sprat 



"anchovy paste," 304 ; uses as bait and as manure, 304 

 Spur, another name for one of the dog-fishes, 316 

 Stake, a local name for the ling, 168 



Steam-boilers in fishing vessels, state of the law thereon, 448 

 Steamships probably destructive to eggs and fry, 55 

 Steam-trawling, 334-349 ; losses occasioned by it to line fishermen, 349 

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

 Sting-bull, a name given in Sussex to the greater weever, 80 



,, fishes, 79-83 ; wounds inflicted by them very poisonous, 79 ; remedies, 80 

 Stink-alive, a name given to the bib, 148 

 Stomach, 14 



Stoney cobbler, name given at Youghal to the lesser or viper weever, 82 

 Stow-net, 52 ; where and how used, 52 

 Stroma, 33 



Sucking-fish, a name given to the sea lamprey, 320 

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



of crews, 334 

 Sur-mullet, 61-64 



Suyeen, the fry of the coal-fish, 154 

 Swansea, fisheries unimportant, 339 

 Sweden, fisheries similar to those of Norway, 341, 342 ; disappearance of 



herrings at regular intervals, 342 ; boats employed, 342 ; statistics 



showing value, number of vessels and men employed, &c., 378 

 Swim-bladder, 17 ; not indispensable to existence of fishes, 17 ; nature of 



gas contained in it, 18 ; how generated, 18 ; swim-bladder not a lung, 



19 ; its uses, 20 

 Sword-fish, a name given in Scotland to the gar-pike, 236 



TAMLIN-COD, a name given to the cod, 128 



Taste, organs of, 28 



Teeth, how disposed, 14 



Teleostean fishes, their characteristics, 7 ; genera described, 57, et scq. 



