ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



wards repairs, ix., loj works neces- 

 sary, ix., ii; provision of funds, ix., 

 II 



Antarctic seal fishery of the United 



States, v., 27 



Antiquity of fish myths, iii., 49, 58 

 Antiquity of fishing industry, iv., 3 

 Antiseptics, their service in preserving 



mackerel, vi., 128 

 Antwerp, export therefrom of mussels 



to Paris, vi., 312 

 Apah, or king-fish, iii., 34 

 Apalachee Bay, sponge fishing at, v., 51 

 Apalachicola, one of the ports of ship- 

 ment for the Florida sponge fishery, 



v., 51 



"Apology for Lent," extract from, i., 

 410 



Apostolides, Dr. N. C, condensed re- 

 port by him on the fishing industries 

 of Greece, xiii., 447-449 



Apparatus for fish culture, v., 15 ; for 

 hatching salmonidse, vi., 42 ; for 

 lobster culture, vi., 341, 342 



Apparatus for fishing : bag-nets, i., 221, 

 295 > 3 J 7 ; beam-trawl, i., 255 ; crab- 

 pots, i., 319 ; creels for catching 

 crabs and lobsters, i., 321 ; dredges, 

 i., 322; drift-net, i., 278; eel traps, 

 i., 228, 319 ; fly-net, i., 316 ; hand- 

 lines, i., 310; harpoons, i., 323; 

 kettle-net,i., 316, 513; lobster-pots, 

 i., 319 ; long-lines, i., 304, 514 ; otter 

 trawl, i., 274; putts, i., 319; putch- 

 ers, i., 319; salmon-nets, i., 316; 

 seine-net, i., 287, 513, 514 ; set-nets, 

 i., 299; shrimp-net, i., 293; snap- 

 net, i., 317 ; stake-net, i., 316 ; stow 

 net, i., 295 ; trammels, i., 299, 513 ; 

 apparatus in use in the United 

 States, v., 10, n ; hooks and lines, 

 xiii., 4, 5 ; nets, xiii., 5, 6 ; traps, 

 xiii., 6 ; fixed engines, xiii., 6 ; the 

 glil net, xiii., 61 



Appert process of packing cooked food, 

 v., 7 



Appledore, defects of the harbour there, 

 ix., 24 



Appliances for avoiding collisions and 

 saving life at sea, iv., 389, 391 



Appliances for hoisting fish from the 



water to the deck of the fishing ves- 

 sel, iv., 344 



Appliances for saving life at sea, inade- 

 quacy of, vii., 203, 210, 214; life- 

 buoys, viL, 210 ; life jackets, vii., 

 210; life-belts, vii., 210; floating 

 mattresses, vii., 210 



Apprentices, cruelty to, iv., 37 



Apprenticeship system, its working, i., 

 J 7> 538; cruelty to apprentices, iv., 

 37 ; shortcomings of system, iv., 398 ; 

 paper by Mr. Helyard on, iv., 398 ; 

 its virtual abolition by alteration of 

 Merchant Shipping Act in 1880, vii., 

 325 ; indoor and outdoor appren- 

 tices, viii., 358, 359; desertions 

 frequent, viii., 359 ; effect on ap- 

 prenticeships of Merchant Seamen 

 Payment of Wages Act, 1880, viii., 

 359 > present state of law as to 

 desertions, viii., 382-388 ; and in- 

 dentures, viii., 404 ; regulations of 

 Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, viii., 

 425, 431 ; form of indentures sanc- 

 tioned by Board of Trade, viii., 433- 

 436; State regulation desirable, ix., 

 204 ; penalties for inciting to breach 

 of engagements, ix., 250 ; inquiry as 

 to their treatment, &c., ix., 284 



Aquaria, attempts to rear lobsters there- 

 in, vi., 334 ; not favourable to the 

 fertility of ova, viii., 36 



Aquarium fungus identical with Sapro- 

 legnia, vi., 14 



Aquarium of Fisheries Exhibition, ex- 

 istence of disease in fish contained 

 therein, vi., 14, 28 ; offered by Exe- 

 cutive Committee for the acceptance 

 of the British nation, xiii., 259 ; con- 

 densed report thereon, xiii., 323-327 



" Arabian Nights," stories of fish there- 

 in, iii., 60, 64 



Arabic Legends respecting fish, iii., 8, 

 I0 35> 58> 62 ; Legends of Koran, 

 iii., 33, 40, 41, 52 



Arcachon, comparative failure of re- 

 strictive measures in connection with 

 oyster culture, v. , 100 ; artificial 

 oyster breeding there, on a large 

 scale, does not pay, v., 102, 103 ; 

 dredging off of old oysters, v., 102 ; 



