INDEX. 577 



Viviparous reproduction, 33 

 Voracity of fish, 29 

 Voyages, their duration, 374 



WAGES, payment of, provisions of Merchant Shipping Bill, "1882, thereon, 



426, 428, et seq. 



Weevers, 79-83 ; wounds inflicted by them very poisonous, 79 

 Weirs, used for capture of fish from an early period, 3 ; kettle-nets, so called, 



44 



Whaup-fish, another name for the gar-pike, 236 

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



crews, 334 



Whitebait, what is it ? 267 ; how to be distinguished from sprats, 270 

 White-ling, a local name for the ling, 168 



,, sole, a name given in co. Down (Ireland) to the pole, 211 

 Whiting, 150-153 



,, mop, a local name for the haddock, 141 ; and for the young whiting, 

 ISO 



,, pollack, a local name for the pollack, 158 



,, pout, a name given to the bib, 147 

 "Wolf," name given to the bass by the Romans, 58 

 Woodbridge, fisheries carried on there, 337 

 Workhouse turbot, a name given to the halibut, 187 

 Wounds inflicted by fish, frequently poisonous, 32 



YARMOUTH, fisheries carried on there, 335 ; vessels employed, 335 ; system 

 of apprenticeship not generally followed, 335 ; wages of boys, 335 ; 

 failure of the mackerel fishery, 335 



VOL. L E. 2 f 



