ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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Alaska fur-seal industry, v., 39 



Alaska Territory, statistics of fisheries 

 of, v., 24, 25, 33, 34 ; right of fish- 

 ing there leased by the United States 

 Government to Alaska Commercial 

 Company, vii., 171 



Albacores, vi., 113 



"Albert Edward," inadequacy of her 

 equipment of boats, vii., 202 



Albinoism, common in flat fishes, viii., 

 12, 184, 217 



" Albuferas " (inland seas), v., 360 



Albuminoids, or flesh-formers, vii., 5, 

 6, 7, n, 12, 16 



Alcohol distilleries, pollution of rivers 

 by them, iv., 271 ; remedies for this, 

 iv., 272 



Alderney Race, ix., 64 



" Alecton," French despatch steamer, 

 gigantic calamary caught by crew of, 

 iii., 364 



Aleiiteres. See Plectognath, ii. 



" Alevins" (young fish), ii., 51 ; food 

 most suitable for them, ii., 52 



Alewife, v., 14, 19 ; another name for 

 the allice-shad, viii., 305 



Alexandria, fishing first taxed at, i., 474 



Algae principally found near shore, 

 vi., 276, 277 



Alkali Act of 1863, iv., 282 



Alkali works, extent to which they con- 

 tribute towards the pollution of 

 rivers, iv., 262 



Alkalinity affects fungus of salmon 

 disease, vi., 29 



Alliance Angling Society of London, 

 iii., 177 



Alligators, ii., 175 



Allis, or Allice-shad, i., 172; viii., 



305-307 

 Allotments of wages by fishermen, how 



affected by Merchant Seamen (Wages) 



Act, 1880, viii., 382 

 " Allowes," i., 427 

 "Almadraba" (tunny net), v., 358, 



359 

 " Almadrabilla," fishing nets used in 



Spanish waters with the submarine 



light boat, v., 360 

 Alpena (Michigan) hatching station, 



v., 68 



Alva, Duke of, his policy in relation to 

 the Dutch sea fisheries, ix., 324 



Alward, Mr. James (Grimsby), remarks 

 by him at Fishermen's Congress 

 with respect to destruction of imma- 

 ture fish, iv., 340-345 ; to different 

 methods of fishing, iv., 340 ; to rail- 

 way rates, iv., 357~359 ; to loss of 

 life at sea among fishermen, iv., 392, 

 400 



Amalong herring fisheries, vii., 76 



Ambassis, ii., 445 



Ambergris of perfumery source of 

 supply, ii., 184; value of the amber- 

 gris obtained as a product of the 

 United States Whale Fishery in 1880, 

 v., 35 



Amboyna, fabled monsters at island of, 

 iii., 203-205 



Ambulatory condition of crustaceans, 

 vi., 333-335, 338, 341, 342 



America, fish culture in, ii., 8, 348 ; 

 salmon and salmon rivers, ii., 281, 

 288-290, 304, 305, 348 ; angling in, 

 ii., 362 ; statistics of fisheries, iv., 

 324 ; Judge Black on railway mono- 

 polies there, iv., 371 ; attempts to 

 cultivate sponge by means of cuttings. 

 iv., 422; purse-seine net, vi., 88; 

 importance for this country of forest 

 protection, vi., 266 ; hatching and 

 rearing tanks, vi., 337 ; experiments 

 in the culture of lobsters, vi., 341 ; 

 introduction of German carp into in- 

 land waters, vii., 82, 102, 105, 145 ; 

 the seal-fishery, vii., 156-168 ; vessels 

 engaged in fur seal fishery of Pata- 

 gonia, vii., 159; the fisheries of 

 Newfoundland, xiii., 49-55 ; of 

 Canada, xiii., 55-63 ; of the United 

 States, xiii., 64-79 



American black bass, vi., 221, 228, 

 235, 237, 238 



American canneries, iv., 118 



American cat-fish, i., 202 



American char or brook trout, i., 164, 



201 



American Fish Cultural Association, v., 



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American fishermen, instances of pros- 

 perity among them, vii., 104 



