INDEX. 



ABERFFRAW BAY, Anglesey, endeavours made to establish a general fishery, 



23 ; need for harbour accommodation, 23 



Aberystwith, one of the principal fishing ports on the Welsh coast, 256 

 Acts of Parliament, comparison of modern forms with those adopted in earlier 



times, 281 



Agreements between masters and crews of fishing vessels, 252 

 Alderney Race, 64 



Alva, Duke of, his policy in relation to the Dutch sea fisheries, 324 

 Anstruther, harbour accommodation, 10, II ; grant by Parliament towards 



repairs, 10 ; works necessary, 1 1 ; provision of funds, 1 1 

 Appledore, defects of the harbour there, 24 

 Apprentices, 204 ; penalties for inciting to breach of engagements, 250 ; 



inquiry as to their treatment, &c., 284 

 Asphaltic masonry and concrete, 98 



BAIT beds, regulations for their protection, 255 



Bangor, one of the principal fishing ports on the Welsh coast, 256 



Barrow-in-Furness, 23 



Belgian "devil," 192 



Beton or concrete, extensively used in France, 91 ; its increasing use in 

 England, 96 ; methods of building with concrete, 96, 97 ; its composition, 

 97 ; iron concrete, 98 ; asphaltic masonry and concrete, 98, 99 



Beukelsz, William, his discovery of a method of preserving fish for long 

 periods, 306 ; his name held in great veneration by his countrymen, 306, 

 308 ; visit of the Emperor Charles V. to his tomb, 308 



Billingsgate fish market, large amount of trade carried on there, 163 



Blakeney, need of improved harbour accommodation, 5 



Board of Trade, powers conferred upon it by Fisheries Act of 1868, 236 ; its 

 general control over sea fisheries, 253 



Bognor, facilities which exist for construction of a good harbour, 36 



Bohuslan, fluctuations of the fisheries there, 212 



Booms for excluding waves from harbours, 77 



Bounties, growth of the system, 174, 175; bounties on exports of fish, 178, 

 180; on fishing vessels, 179 ; on imports, 179 ; effect of the system on 

 the fisheries generally, 180 ; on the herring fishery, 180 ; on the Green- 



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