ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



Bladder-nosed seal, arrangement of 

 teeth, ii., 179 



Blake, H. P., prize Essay on "Im- 

 proved facilities for Capture, &c., of 

 Sea Fishes," x., 419-468 



Blake, J. A., M.P., his remarks on Irish 

 fisheries, vii., 96-101 



Blakeney coast, a source of the supply 

 of whelks, vi., 303 



Blakeney, need of improved harbour 

 accommodation, ix., 5 



B.lanc Jubleris Bay, seal fishery, vii., 

 158 



Bleaching works, pollution of rivers by 

 them, iv., 261 



Bleak, i., 168 ; its flesh analysed, i., 

 365 ; when in season, i., 399 ; sup- 

 posed to cause tapeworm in man, vi., 



257 

 Bleck, a local name for the coal-fish, 



viii., 154 



Blennies, i., 134-139 ; mode of breed- 

 ing, ii., 15; "protective mimicry," 

 ii., 145 ; order of fishes to which they 

 belong, ii., 147; arrangement of fins, 

 ii., 148 



Blenniidse, i., 134-139 



Blens, another name for the cod, viii., 

 128 ; and the bib, viii., 147 



Blind-fishing, ii., 225 



Blinds, a name given in Cornwall to the 

 bib, viii., 147 



Bloaters, name given to herring cured 

 after a certain method at Yarmouth 

 and elsewhere, i., 36; ii., 219; iv., 

 6 1 ; history of the discovery of this 

 method of cure, ii., 222 



Bloch, his observations as to the mode 

 of escape of ligules from the fish in- 

 fested with them, vi., 256 



Blockan, a local name for the coal-fish, 

 viii., 154 



Bloomfield, J. C, his remarks at the 

 conference on the destruction of im- 

 mature fish, iv., 338; at the conference 

 on railway rates, iv., 370-372 ; re- 

 marks respecting Government aid 

 towards construction of harbours in 

 Ireland, iv., 384 ; respecting fishery 

 apprenticeships, iv., 399 ; his contri- 

 bution to the discussions on the 



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fisheries of Japan, v., 210 ; on the 

 West African fisheries, v., 489 ; on 

 salmon and salmon fisheries, vi., 180 ; 

 and on coarse fish culture, vi., 224 ; 

 his paper on the fisheries of Ireland, 

 vii., 75-94 ; discussion thereon, vii., 

 94-108 



Blow-line fishing, ii., 412 



" Blowsers," men who land and carry 

 pilchards to curing cellars, ii., 226 



Blubber of seal, vii., 167 



Bluebacks, a Yorkshire name for the 

 coal-fish, viii., 154 



Blue crab, an American crustacean, 

 v., 1 8 ; the common edible crab of 

 the Atlantic coast, v., 49 ; when and 

 how caught, v., 49 ; how eaten, v. t 

 49 ; value of the crab fishery, v., 50 



Blue fish, appearances on American 

 coast intermittent, v., 63 ; vi., 295 



" Blue Groper," the, a large and valu- 

 able fish of the Australian seas, v., 

 326, 327 



Blue mould, vu, 9 



Blue-polls, ii., 134 



Blue Shark, i., 186 



Boar-fish, or Cuckoo-fish, i., 116; vi., 

 291 



Board of Trade, empowered to restrict 

 taking of oysters and shell fish, L, 

 245 ; to grant exclusive rights of oyster 

 and mussel fishery, and the power of 

 levying tolls on persons taking oysters 

 and mussels from a fishery, i., 246 ; 

 to restrict the use of the beam trawl, 

 L, 246 ; empowered to make grants 

 of bottom of sea in bays or estuaries 

 for oyster cultivation, iv., 99 ; em- 

 powered to authorise corporations to 

 make any regulations found necessary 

 in respect of oyster beds, iv., 100 ; 

 returns of exports and imports, iv., 

 118 ; Committee of Inquiry on pre- 

 vention of loss of life at sea, iv., 377 ; 

 empowered to grant provisional or- 

 ders for regulation of oyster and 

 mussel fisheries, vi., 307 ; grant of 

 such an order to Mr. le Strange, vi., 

 309 ; inquiries respecting condition 

 of the Norfolk crab and lobster 

 fisheries, vi., 347 ; requirements for 

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