ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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Costa, River (Yorkshire), high uniform 

 temperature of its water, iii. , 148 ; 

 growth of weed promoted thereby, 

 iii., 148; well stocked with fish, iii., 

 148 



Costa (Yorkshire) Anglers' Club, iii., 

 148 



Coste, M., an early cultivator of fish, 



vi., 54 



Costermongers, distribution of fish by, 

 iv., 190 ; prices obtained by them, 

 iv., 135 ; their importance as cus- 

 tomers at fish-markets, x., 461 



Cotton drift-nets, i., 282 



Couch, Mr. , observations upon mackerel 

 food, vi., 281 



Couch, Mr. J., remarks relating to Cor- 

 nish fisher-folk, wages earned by 

 them, ii., 226 ; their habits and cha- 

 racter, ii., 229 



Counter currents. See Currents. 



Court Circular, account therein of cere- 

 monial at the opening of Exhibition, 

 xiii., 249 



Cour tines, rules for use of, i., 501 



Courtown herring fisheries, vii., 76 



Covadonga Group, seal rookery there, 

 vii., 161 



Cowan, Mr. George (Eyemouth), re- 

 marks by him upon the destruction of 

 immature fish, iv., 328, 329 ; upon 

 line fishing, iv., 336, 337 



Cowan, Sir John, steps taken by him 

 when Lord Mayor to secure pro- 

 tection of fish in the Thames, iii., 

 107 



" Cowels " (fish baskets), vi., 136 



Crabs, value of the fishery, i., 46 ; dif- 

 ference between Scotch and English 

 custom as to eating them, i. , 62 ; laws 

 relating to fishing for them, i., 245 ; 

 chemical analysis of their flesh, i., 

 365 ; their value as food, i., 430 ; fish- 

 ing round the coast of Ireland, ii., 

 250 ; mode of capture in India and 

 Burmah, ii., 458 ; religious legends 

 concerning the crab, iii., 10 ; use as a 

 " totem," iii., 36 ; in mythology, iii., 

 50 ; in fable and fairy tale, iii. , 53 ; 

 in heraldry-, iii., 66, 74, 75 ; ancient 

 belief concerning its periods of 



growth, iii., 71 ; popular belief in 

 its efficacy for cure of cancer, iii., 

 90 ; beneficial effect of protection 

 for crab fisheries, iv., 108 ; Act of 

 Parliament regulating their sale, iv., 

 323 ; this law practically inoperative, 

 iv., 338; remarks by Mr. C. E. 

 Fryer upon protection in relation to 

 crab fisheries, vi., 241 ; Government 

 report upon fisheries, vi., 328; use 

 for bait, vi., 344; paper by Mr. T. 

 Cornish upon crustaceous sources of 

 food supply, vi., 356 ; size attained by 

 crabs, vi., 359; casting of shells 

 annually, vi., 361 ; mode of using 

 their claws, vi., 363 ; their habit of 

 ** shooting" claws which have been 

 injured, vi., 363, 364 ; their value as 

 food, vi., 365 ; Mr. John Tremayne's 

 remarks upon crab fisheries, vi., 372 ; 

 recent laws regulating their capture 

 and sale, ix., 170; experimental 

 legislation, ix., 209 ; present state of 

 the law respecting them, ix., 220; 

 Norfolk Crab and Lobster Act, ix., 

 267; Act of 1877, ix., 267-269; 

 supply believed to be falling off, 

 xiii., 139 



Crab-eater, its eggs, ii., 19 



Crab-pots, apparatus for catching crabs, 

 description of them, i., 319, 320 



Craig-fluke, a name given to the pole, 

 viii., 211 ; anatomical details of the 

 family (x., 230), and genus to which it 

 belongs, x., 260; geographical dis- 

 tribution, x., 272; habits, x., 272; 

 food, x., 273; spawning, x., 273; 

 size attained by it, x., 273 ; mode of 

 capture, x., 273 ; quality of flesh, x., 

 273; commercial value, x., 274; 

 names given to this fish, x., 274; 

 general description, x., 274 



Crake-herring, a name given in the 

 North of Ireland to the scad, viii., 



102 



Cramp-fish, mode of capturing its prey, 

 vi., 279 



Cran (Scotch herring measure), i, 36-37; 

 ii., 204 



Cranial bones affected by salmon dis- 

 ease, vi., 3 



