576 INDEX. 



Telegraph cables, 471-474 



Temperature, its effect upon the distribution of animal life in the ocean, 37 ; 



and upon migration, 39 

 Tenacity of life in fish, 31 ; in the weever, 80 ; in the ling, 169; in the 



turbot, 195 ; in^the plaice, 265 ; in the flounder, 220 ; in the skate, 318 

 Thickback, 232-234 

 Thornback, or thomback ray, 319, 320 

 Tibrie, a local name for the coalfish, 154 

 Tinker, or blunt-nosed dinnan, a name given at Aberdeen to the skate, 



3i8 

 Tongue, not present in fishes, 28 



,, soles, a name given to soles in the Moray Firth, 226 

 Tongues, the market name for young soles, 226 

 Tonnage, registration for, 379 

 Topknot, Muller's and Bloch's, 201-204 

 Touch, organs of, 26, 28 



Town-dab, a name given at Hastings to the smear-dab, 208 

 Trammel-net, 48 ; how used, 48 

 Trawl or beam trawl, opinions as to effect on the fisheries of its use, 49 ; 



its construction, 50, 245 ; how used, 52, 345-346 ; damage occasioned 



by it to other nets, 52 ; difference in size of mesh of British and foreign 



trawl-nets, 346 ; destruction of fish by small mesh nets, 346 

 Trawl, name given in Scotland to the stop-seine net, 46 

 Trawling, laws by which it is regulated, 402 ; provisions of the International 



Convention of the Hague, 411 

 Trunking, 374 



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

 Tub-fish, one of the gurnards, 75, 76 

 Tuck-seine, how used, 47 

 Tumbling-cod, a name given to the cod, 128 



,, net, local name for the trammel-net, 48 

 Turbot or Turbut, a name given to the halibut, 187 



,, (formerly spelt turbolt), 193-199 ; varieties of form and colour, 194 ; 

 habits, 195 ; means of capture, 196 ; baits, 196 ; breeding, 196 ; 

 hybrids, 196 ; life-history, 197 j its value as food, 198 ; habitat, 198 ; 

 weight, 199 



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

 Twait-shad, 307-309 

 Tweed (the) subject to special legislation as to salmon fishery, 539 ; Act of 



1857, 539 j Act of, 540 ; limits of mouth of river extended, 540 ; close 



time, 541 ; fixed nets, 542 ; mill-dams, &c., 543 j pollutions, 544 ; 



pouching, 545 ; miscellaneous suggestions, 550 



URINARY BLADDER, 18 



Vasa deferentia, 33 



Ventral fins, their position and uses, 8 



Vertebrata, definition of term, 6 ; their classification, 6 



Viper weever, 82, 83 



