FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



x., 84 ; size attained by it, viii., 60 ; 

 x., 85 ; modes of capture, viii., 59 ; 

 x., 85 ; quality of flesh, viii., 60 ; 

 x., 85 ; commercial value, x., 85 ; 

 classical allusions to this fish, x., 86 ; 

 may be kept in confinement, viii., 

 59 ; x., 87 ; local names for this fish, 

 viii., 58 ; x., 87 ; general description, 

 x., 87 



Bass, black, cure of fungoid disease by 

 means of sea- water, vi., 27 



Basse, a valuable food fish, vii., 21 



Bastard-sattie, a name given in Aber- 

 deen to the long rough dab, viii., 191 



Bastard-sole, another name for the 

 smear-dab, viii., 208 ; for the thick 

 back, viii., 232 



Bastard turbot, a name given in the 

 Moray Firth to the brill, viii., 199 



Batoidei, i., 192 



Battersea bridge, evidence as to the ex- 

 istence, in former times, of fish in the 

 Thames up to this point, vii., 55 



Bays and estuaries of the United King- 

 dom, destruction of immature fish by 

 trawlers, &c., i., 87, 90, 106 



Beale, Mr., on whales spouting, iii., 

 254 



Beam-trawl, Board of Trade authorized 

 to restrict its use, i., 246 ; general 

 description of, i., 255 ; ground favour- 

 able for its use, i., 268 ; application 

 of steam power to trawling, i., 272 ; 

 its introduction at various localities, 

 i., 273. See also Trawl Fisheries. 



Bearded ophidiom, i., 154 



Beaufort (North Carolina), zoological 

 station there, iv., 427 



Beaujon, A., prize Essay, on " the His- 

 tory of the Dutch Sea Fisheries," ix., 

 301-602 



Beaumaris fisheries unimportant, viii., 

 339 



Beche-de-mer, production of Japanese 

 seas, v., 192, 193 ; quantity and 

 value of exports from Japan to China, 

 v., 196, 198 ; general description 

 thereof and mode of preparing it for 

 the market, v., 220, 395 ; importance 

 of increased facilities for its export 

 from the Bahamas, v., 386 



Beech, the, its value as a forest tree, 

 vii., 271 



Beef-tea, its restorative value as com- 

 pared with fish-tea, vii., 9 



Beer, rate of carriage for, compared 

 with that for fish, iv., 361 



Behring Strait, number of American 

 whaling vessels there, v., 35 



Belgian "devil," i., 244; viii, 344, 

 352; ix., 192 ; xi., 158 



Belgian fish-markets. See Fish markets. 



Belgian law prohibiting use of instru- 

 ment known as the " devil," i., 244 



Belgium, its participation in the trawl- 

 net fishery, i., 511 ; salmon eggs ex- 

 ported there from the United States, 

 v., 70 ; the Belgians as line fishers, 

 vii., 284; principal fisheries, viii., 344; 

 boats employed, viii., 344 ; ground 

 worked on, viii., 344 ; increase of 

 the fisheries in recent years, xiii., 99 ; 

 quantity of fish caught insufficient 

 for home consumption, xiii., 99 ; the 

 country fairly well represented at 

 Exhibition, xiii., 100 ; condensed 

 report on the fishing industries of this 

 country, xiii., 411-417 



Belkinson, or Belkelzoon, his discovery 

 of a mode of curing herring, i., 497 



Bell, Mr., on whales spouting, iii., 256, 

 259 



Belle Isle, Straits of, route taken by 

 seals on their way to Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, v., 141 ; vii., 156 



Belone, ii., 473, 478 



Beloochistan, its coast fisheries, ii., 450, 

 451 



Beluga, use of its skin for shoes, &c., 

 ii., 184 ; does not spout, iii., 254 ; 

 alleged similarity of its blowing to 

 the whistling of a bird, iii., 258 



Benevolent societies for relief of fisher- 

 men in cases of shipwreck, &c., vii., 

 260 



Bengal, neglected state of the fisheries, 

 ii., 450 ; curing offish by sun drying, 

 ii., 452 ; condition of fishermen, ii., 

 463 ; proportion of the population 

 who are consumers of fish, ii., 498 

 Bennett, Mr. George, obtains a pearly 

 nautilus, iii., 280 



