614 INDEX. 



Lighting of harbours, lighthouses, 1 10 ; leading lights, 1 10 ; mock or 

 apparent light, in 



Lights for fishing vessels, 205, 237, 238, 266 



Limenometry, definition of the term, 39 



Line fishing, how prosecuted, 232 



Liverpool, its importance as a fishing port, 256 



Loans to fishermen, their expediency discussed, 282-284 



Lobsters, &c., recent laws regulating their capture and sale, 170; experi- 

 mental legislation, 209 ; present state of the law respecting them, 220 ; 

 exempt from Customs regulations as to report and entry, 253 ; Norfolk 

 Crab and Lobster Act, 267 ; Act of 1877, 267-269 



Lowestoft, its importance as a fishing port, 255 



Lybster, the dilapidated condition of its harbour, and its limited capacity, 18 ; 

 suggestions for provision of funds for effecting the necessary improve- 

 ments, 1 8 



"MACHINES" for land carriage of fish, their introduction, 164 ; privileges 



granted to them, 164, 241 

 Man, Isle of, condition of its harbours, 22 ; number of boats employed in 



fisheries, 22 ; fish caught, 22 ; long subject to laws respecting importation 



into England of foreign fish, 185 ; its importance as a fishing centre, 257 

 Mare clausum, explanation of the term, 226 ; notice of the work of Miiller 



thereon, 461 



Markets for the sale of fish, their importance to the consumer, 293 

 Masonry, methods of using it in sea- works, 92-96 

 Mauricius, his investigations with regard to the right of free fishing in the 



northern seas, 480 

 Merchant Shipping Acts, 250, 251 

 " Merry men of May," a race so called, 64 

 Moor-salt, how prepared, 312 

 Morecambe, a seat of the mussel fishery, 256 



Mount's Bay, necessity for breakwater to protect entrances to harbours, 33 

 Mud, level assumed by it a measure of the exposure of a coast, 53 ; its deposit 



in harbours, 101 



Miiller, J., notice of his work ' Mare Clausum,' 461 

 Mussels, necessity for protection by law, 5 ; grants of foreshore for their 



cultivation, 186 j their protection possibly a fit subject for legislation, 208 



NATURAL History, its bearing upon fishery legislation, 165, 170, 210-212 ; 

 State aid in scientific research, 215 



Netherlands, the, their geographical position, 303 ; large extent of sea coast, 

 303 ; facilities afforded thereby for prosecution of fisheries, 303 



Nets, laws relative to size of mesh, 151, 171, 280; finally repealed, 238; 

 regulations for the protection of nets, 238 ; salvage of nets, 238 ; right of 

 fishermen to use land for drying them, 242 ; material used in their 

 manufacture, 282 



Newfoundland, effect of fishery bounties upon its development, 185 ; fisher- 

 men forbidden to settle there, 186 ; repeal of this law, 186 



