FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Acidity affects fungus of salmon disease, 



vi., 29 



Acipenseridae (sturgeon tribe), i., 183 

 Acklington pass, or fish ladder, ii., 329 

 Acorn barnacles, in., 307 

 Actions at Law. See Cases, i. 

 Acton Piscatorial Society, iii., 176 

 Acts of Anne and of George I., estab- 

 lishing close time for salmon, iv., 205 

 Acts of Parliament, comparison of 

 modern forms with those adopted in 

 earlier times, ix., 281 

 Acts of Parliament relating to fisheries, 

 their frequent inconsistency with each 

 other, i., 20 ; Act for suppression of 

 weirs, &c., i., 212-214, 217, 221 ; 

 Act for preservation of spawn and fry 

 of fish, i., 230 

 Adag or attic, a local name for the 



haddock, viii., 141 



Adams, W. M., paper entitled "A 

 popular history of fisheries and 

 fishermen of all countries from the 

 earliest times," i., 463-544; con- 

 densed reports by him on ma- 

 chinery in its application to fishing, 

 xiii., 311-319 ; on fishing, its history, 

 laws, and literature, xiii., 335-340 

 Adderley, A. J., his paper on "the 

 fisheries of the Bahamas," v., 365- 

 393 ; condensed reports by him on 

 the fishing industries of the Ba- 

 hamas, xiii., 356-359 ; of Jamaica, 

 xiii., 376-377 

 Adder-pike, a local name for the lesser 



or viper weever, viii., 82 

 Adjudication on disputes between fish- 

 ermen to be submitted to commander 

 of cruisers, iv., 104 

 Admiralty should devise means for 

 diminishing loss of life at sea, vii., 

 215, 216 



Adonis-fish, iii., 13 



Adriatic, experiments made by Pro- 

 fessor Oscar Schmidt in the propa- 

 gation of sponges, iv., 422 

 Aelian, account by him of the habits 

 of certain aquatic animals in Egypt, 

 i., 476 



Aerating. See Oxygenating. 

 Aeroklinoscope, the, described, vii., 181 



Affection, instances of, in fish, viii., 



31 



Africa, number of species of fish fauna 



inhabiting its waters, v., 425, 426 

 Africa, West. See West Africa. 

 African fish folk-lore, iii., 36, 62, 80 

 African Loaches. See Loaches (Afri- 

 can). 



Agassiz, Professor, eggs of salmonidse 

 artificially fecundated by him at 

 Neufchatel, ii., 521; his opinion res- 

 pecting the proper classification of 

 the manatidae, iii., 229; and the Ena- 

 liosaurian hypothesis, iii., 436 ; his 

 observations with respect to the young 

 state of the flounder, xi., 231 

 Age in relation to food, vii., 17, 18 

 Agreement, Fishing, sanctioned by 



Board of Trade, viii., 436-448 

 Agreements on shipping crews of fish- 

 ing vessels, viii., 355, 381 ; present 

 state of the law on the subject, viii., 

 403 ; provisions of Merchant Ship- 

 ping Bill, 1882, viii., 425 ; agree- 

 ments between masters and crews of 

 fishing vessels, ix., 252 

 Agriculture, its progress compared with 



that of fishing, iv., 8. 

 "Ahyu," a Japanese fish resembling 

 the smelt, v., 200 ; its characteristics, 

 v., 219 ; modes of capture, v., 219 

 Aid to fishermen in India, ii., 465 

 Ainsworth, Mr., process of fish-breed- 

 ing adopted by him in the United 

 States, iii., 28; one of the earliest 

 of American fish culturists, v., 13 

 Air-bladder, air-sac, or air-vessel, same 

 as the swim-bladder, viii., 17; its 

 uses, viii., 20 ; x., 20 ; absent in flat 

 fishes, x., 20 



Air-breathing fishes, ii., 169 

 Air life-belts, iv., 382 

 Aire and Calder Basin, pollution of 

 rivers by woollen factories, iv., 255, 

 284 



Aire Fishing Club, iii., 143 

 Alabama, statistics of fisheries of, v., 



24, 25, 30, 31 

 Alaska Cod Fishery, v., 25 

 Alaska Commercial Company, v., 39 ; 

 vii., 171, 173 



