616 INDEX. 



Railways, the effect in increasing the trade in fish, 163 ; amount of fish carried 



by them, 241 

 Raleigh, Sir Walter, his estimate of the number of ships and persons 



employed in the Dutch herring fishery in his time, 359 ; his book on 



trade and commerce with the Dutch, 467 

 Rating of fishermen, 254 

 Reductive power in harbours, 44 

 Registration of fishing-boats, 236, 237, 245 

 Regrators, laws respecting, 159-162 

 Rendel, Mr. C. E., the late, his plan for a harbour at Brixham, 35 j his 



method of depositing pierres perdues, 100 

 Roome Bay, its situation and suitability as a site for a harbour, II ; Mr. 



Leslie's plans for construction of harbour, 1 1 



Rosehearty, N.B., steps taken by Scotch Fishery Board to improve har- 

 bour, 1 6 



Royal Commissions on Fisheries, 284 

 Royal Commission of 1858, opinion expressed by them as to the part to be 



taken by Government in the construction of harbours of refuge, 13 

 Royal fish, 286 



Russell, J. Scott, his law of breaking waves, 70 

 Rye, character of the fishery carried on there, 256 



ST. IVES (Cornwall), extensive fisheries carried on there, 27 ; its importance 

 as a site for a harbour of refuge, 27-33 "> opinions of eminent authorities 

 on this point, 30, 32 ; plan for formation of harbour suggested by Cap- 

 tain Vetch, R.E., 30 ; tidal influences of the locality, 31 ; recommenda- 

 tion of Select Committee of House of Commons, 32 ; suggestion as to 

 provision of funds for construction of harbour, 33 



St. Tudwall's Road, its suitability for conversion into a harbour, 23 



Sale of fish, limitations of size of fish sold, 152, 153 ; laws passed with the 

 view of keeping down the price offish, 154-162, 240 



Salmon fisheries. Close time for salmon first established, 149 ; subsequent 

 legislation thereon, 165, 166 ; injury to salmon fisheries caused by locks 

 and dams, 167 ; by pollution of rivers, 167 ; duties of the State in relation 

 to fisheries, 168 ; principles of existing laws, 168 ; disappearance of 

 salmon from the Thames, 169 ; inquiry into the state of the fisheries, 169 ; 

 necessity for protection, 207, 285 ; their preservation a proper subject 

 for legislation, 207 ; resumt of existing laws respecting them, 219 



Salmon Fishery Act of 1861, 210 



Saltoun, Lord, aid rendered by him towards construction of harbour at 

 Fraserburgh, 1 6 



Salvage of nets, 238 



Sand, its deposit in harbours, 101 



Scarborough, its inaccessibility at low water, 5 ; its importance as a fishery 

 port, 255 



Scientific research, its influence on development of fisheries, 211 ; State aid 

 towards such research, 215, 218 



Scotch fisheries. Value of herring fishery in 1880, 21 



