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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



protection and safety of life at sea, 

 vii., 202, 215 ; suggestion as to means 

 to be adopted by the Board for the 

 protection of immature fish, vii., 295 ; 

 powers conferred upon it by Fisheries 

 Act of 1868, ix., 236 ; its general 

 control over sea fisheries, ix., 253 



Boards of Conservators for securing en- 

 forcement of Salmon laws, ii., 313 



Boatbuilding, need in Ireland for Go- 

 vernment aid towards technical edu- 

 cation therein, vii., 136 



Boat-lowering and disengaging gear, 

 vii., 211 ; viii., 316 



Boat-owners, curers and fishermen, re- 

 lations between, iv. 163 ; suggestions 

 with reference thereto, iv., 175 



Boats and gear, used in Salmon fishery 

 in the United Kingdom, their esti- 

 mated value, ii., 286 ; used by Irish 

 fishermen in the year 1665, vii., 118; 

 employed in Kinsale fisheries in the 

 years 1880-81-82, vii., 121 



Boats, capital employed therein, in the 

 Scotch fisheries, iv., 89 ; number 

 employed in the Bahamas fisheries, 

 v., 368 ; number licensed in the Sierra 

 Leone fisheries, v., 434 ; never pro- 

 vided in sufficient numbers in sea- 

 going vessels to save crews and pas- 

 sengers in case of disaster to ship, 

 vii., 201, 202 ; those provided not 

 always readily available, vii., 203 ; 

 instances of loss of life at sea through 

 inadequacy of life-saving appliances, 

 vii., 203-209 ; impossibility of ships 

 carrying boats sufficient to save lives 

 of all persons on board, vii., 21 1 ; 

 desirability of introducing use of 

 life-saving appliances which will, to 

 a large extent, supersede boats, vii., 

 211, 216 ; probably first used for the 

 pursuit of fish, viii., 4. See a so 

 Fishing Vessels. 



Boccius, Gottlieb, his experiments in 

 the rearing of trout in England, 

 ii., 6 



Boddagh ruy, a name given in the Isle 

 of Man to codlings, viii., 130 



Boger, a Cornish name for the common 

 sea-bream when half grown, viii., 66 



Bognor, facilities which exist for con- 

 struction of a good harbour, ix., 36 



Bogue, the, a member of the bream 

 family, i., 92 



Bohus fishery district, value of the 

 fishery carried on there, v., 261, 

 265 



Bohuslan, fluctuations of the fisheries 

 there, v., 258; ix., 212 



Boiled fish, vii., 25 



B cliche de rada, vii., 252 



Boliche (Spanish fishing gear), vii., 

 251, 252 



" Bomaree." See Middleman. 



Bombay, amount of duty on salt, ii., 

 446 ; return of preserved fish sent in- 

 land from this port, ii., 451 ; social 

 condition of fishermen, ii., 459 ; 

 capture of fish by spearing them, ii., 

 490 ; proportion of the population 

 who are consumers of fish, ii., 498 ; 

 insufficient supply of fish in local 

 markets, ii., 500 



Bombay duck, ii., 445 



Bonaparte, Prince Louis Lucien, his 

 testimony as to the eating of filaria 

 in the Basque provinces, vi., 261 



Bonded enclosures at Madras for curing 

 fish, ii., 450 



Bone-dog, another name for one of the 

 dog-fishes, viii., 316 



Boneless fish, v., 109 



Boneless fish industry in the United 

 States, v., 9 



Bonito, occasionally visits shores of 

 Great Britain, i., in ; monopolised 

 for the king's table in the Sandwich 

 Islands, iii., 47 ; not likely to have 

 their numbers greatly diminished by 

 human agency, v. , 62 ; appearance on 

 American coast intermittent, v., 63; 

 occasionally seen in the Australian 

 seas, v., 321 ; vi., 113 



Bonnet fluck, a name given to the brill, 

 viii., 199 



Bony fishes. See Teleostei. 



Bony pike, ii., 154 



Booms for excluding waves from har- 

 bours, ix., 77 



BQOps, or Bogue, a fish of the bream 

 family, i., 92 



