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crease of supply, iv., 78, 309 ; faci- 

 lities given by railways and telegraph 

 for conveyance, distribution, and 

 equalisation of price of, iv., 87 ; fish 

 caught in the United Kingdom, 

 quantity considerably increased in 

 recent years, iv., 89; supply dimi- 

 nished by inshore fisheries, iv., 90; 

 their fecundity and recuperative 

 power, iv., 92, 94, 327, 333; vii., 

 249 ; their enemies, iv., 92-94 ; 

 transport, iv., 117; vii., 220, 241; 

 fish trade of British Isles, iv., 118; 

 consumption, in United Kingdom, 

 iv., 120; inland transport in Ireland, 

 iv., 143; consumption at ports of 

 landing, iv., 358 ; their isolation and 

 protection from natural enemies when 

 young, its possibility discussed, iv., 

 416; consumption in London, v., 

 150; trade in Canada, v., 150; con- 

 sumption of fish there, v., 162 ; used 

 for manure in Japan, v., 193 ; cul- 

 ture of in Japan, v., 205 ; fish pro- 

 ducts exported from Norway, v., 275 ; 

 fishes of West Africa, v., 430 ; trees 

 and shrubs used in West Africa for 

 stupefying and poisoning fish, v., 

 45 1 ; the principal article of food to 

 the inhabitants of the Canaries and 

 Cape Verde Islands, v., 477 ; classed 

 as predaceous, omnivorous and her- 

 bivorous, vi., 269 ; cessation of feed- 

 ing during certain periods, vi., 275 ; 

 desirable as a chief article of diet, vii., 

 4 ; appropriate food for brain workers, 

 vii., 15; cause of epidemic in fish, vii., 

 38 ; are injured by water impregnated 

 with lime, vii., 43 ; killed by sewage, 

 vii., 45 ; require free oxygen, vii., 46 ; 

 statistics relating to effects of eating 

 unhealthy fish, vii., 47 ; suffer from 

 turbidity of water, vii., 47 ; preser- 

 vation for the tab.le by freezing, vii., 



221, 239 ; flavour when frozen, vii., 



222, 225, 239 ; handling of, detri- 

 mental to subsequent preservation, 

 vii., 224; packing, method of, vii., 

 224, 228 ; piling en masse objection- 

 able, vii., 224, 228; their preserva- 

 tion by keeping in ice, vii., 224, 240 ; 



health of> preserved by forests, vii., 

 268 ; modes of capture adopted by 

 savages, viii., 3; used by man as 

 food from earliest times, viii., 4 ; how 

 defined, viii., 7; divided into bony 

 and cartilaginous forms, viii. , 7 ; 

 modifications of forms, viii., 9 ; their 

 luminosity, viii., 12; possess the 

 senses of hearing, viii., 21 ; and of 

 smell, viii., 27 ; evidences of this, 

 viii., 22, 28; sense of taste very 

 slightly developed, viii., 28 ; growth, 

 how influenced, viii., 29; modes of 

 seizing prey, viii. , 29 ; tenacity of 

 life, viii., 30; not very sensitive to 

 pain, viii., 30 ; have means of inter- 

 communication, viii., 30 ; emit volun- 

 tary and involuntary sounds, viii., 31 ; 

 instances of affection, viii., 31 ; of 

 anger, viii., 31; of fear, viii., 32; 

 sometimes capable of inflicting poi- 

 sonous wounds, viii., 32; secrete 

 venom, viii., 32; relations of the 

 sexes, viii., 32; modes of reproduc- 

 tion, viii., 32-34 ; x., 20 ; reproduc- 

 tive organs, viii., 33; x., 20; nests 

 for protection of ova, viii., 35 ; hybrid- 

 ism, viii., 36 ; time of spawning, viii., 

 36; number of eggs produced by 

 various species, viii., 36 ; eggs of 

 fish kept in an aquarium frequently 

 infertile, viii., 36; artificial propaga- 

 tion, viii., 37; x., 49, 58-67; xiii., 

 62 ; effect of temperature on distri- 

 bution, viii., 37 ; recovery of fish ap- 

 parently frozen, viii., 38 ; ability to 

 exist under ice, viii., 38 ; x., 68, 69; 

 not attracted by electric light, viii., 

 38 ; affected by electrical disturbances 

 in the atmosphere, viii., 38 ; migra- 

 tions, viii., 39; effect of sea- water 

 on fresh-water fish, viii., 39; ability 

 of some sea-fishes to exist in water 

 wholly or partially fresh, viii., 39; 

 instances of fish living with, or 

 attaching themselves to others as 

 hosts, viii., 41 ; diseases and causes 

 of destruction, viii., 54; parasites, 

 viii., 55 ; employed as food in various 

 conditions, viii., 55 ; geographical 

 distribution, viii., 55; terms employed 



