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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



number of salmon received annually 

 from Scotland, as compared with 

 England and Ireland respectively, 

 vi., 166, 189 ; " Billingsgate ring," 

 vii., 86; large amount of trade carried 

 on there, ix., 163 ; a virtual mono- 

 poly, x., 79 ; high price of fish traced 

 to this cause, x., 79 ; quantity of 

 fish brought to London in 1881, x., 

 459 ; inconvenience resulting from 

 want of direct railway communication 

 with market, x., 460 ; importance of 

 costermongers as customers, x., 461 ; 

 estimated cost of carrying out schemes 

 for improvement of approaches, x., 

 480 ; its inadequacy as a wholesale 

 market, x., 481, 482, 483. See also 

 Fishmarkets. 



Bing, Mr. , sketch by him of sea monster 

 seen by Egede, iii., 392 



Biology, special, of economic fishes, 

 iv., 418, 421 



Bird Garuda, iii., 24 



Bird Kruth, iii., 54 



Birdie, a name given at Aberdeen to 

 young halibut, viii., 187 



Birds, destruction of fish by, in India, 

 ii., 495 ; early belief that they were 

 once fish, iii., 12, 91 ; may transport 

 fungus of salmon disease, vi., 5 



Birdsgrove Fly-fishing Club, May field, 

 Ashbourne, iii., 144 



Birkbeck, Mr. E., M.P., presides at 

 Practical Fishermen's Congress, iv., 

 307 ; his remarks as to the prospect of 

 steps being taken to prevent the cap- 

 ture of immature fish, iv., 354 ; as to 

 railway rates, iv., 356 ; and as to im- 

 proved harbour accommodation and 

 the prevention of loss of life at sea, 

 iv-s 377 > his remarks on the question 

 of state aid to fisheries, vi., 65 ; and 

 the protection of crab and lobster 

 fisheries, vi., 369 ; his opinion with 

 r< spect to the necessity for fish cul- 

 ture, vii., 84 ; remarks by him with 

 respect to seal fisheries of Spitzber- 

 gen, vii., 172 ; his opinion of the 

 value of storm warnings, vii., 193 ; 

 his experiences of shark fishing at 

 Spitzbergen, vii., 299 ; report, as 



Chairman, on work of Executive Com- 

 mittee throughout the Exhibition, 

 xiii., 255 



" Birkenhead," loss of the, vii., 203 



Bishop, a name given in Cornwall to the 

 lesser or viper weever, viii., 82 



Bishops' fish crests, iii., 74 



Black, Judge, remarks on railway mono- 

 polies in America, iv., 371 



Blackback, a name given in Belfast Bay 

 to the flounder, viii., 216 



Black bass, L, 201 ; question of its in- 

 troduction into Britain, ii., 361, 407 ; 

 its introduction into trout streams not 

 desirable, vi., 50, 59, 61, 68 ; but it 

 might be introduced into streams in- 

 habited by coarse fish, vi., 68 ; its 

 introduction into England from 

 America advocated, xi., 90-92 ; re- 

 cent introduction of this fish into 

 England, xi., 495 



Black bream, a food fish caught on the 

 Australian coast, v., 314 



Black-fin, a local name for the lesser or 

 viper weever, viii., 82 



Black fish, i., 112 ; vi., 278 



Blackford, Mr. E. G., his promotion of 

 the American Fish Cultural Associa- 

 tion, v., 12 



Black jack, a local name for the coal- 

 fish, viii., 154 



Black pilot, i., 116 



Black pollack, a local name for the 

 coal-fish, viii., 154 



Black pups, a name given by hun- 

 ters to seals under a year old before 

 they change their coats, vii., 166 



Black rock -cod, habits and general 

 description thereof, v., 310, 311 



Black Sea, comparative scarcity of fish 

 in this sea, xiii., 27 ; opinions of 

 geologists as to its connection, at a 

 former period, with the Arctic Ocean, 

 xiii., 28 ; value of the Russian fish- 

 eries in this sea, xiii., 29 



Black sea-bream, another name for the 

 fish known as "old wife," i., 92; 

 viii., 64-66 



Blacksmith, a name given at Aberdeen 

 to the halibut, viii., 187 



" Blacktails," vi., 150, 151, 185 



