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management at sea, viii., 366-368; 

 "coopering," viii., 368; carriers, 

 viii., 370; curing fish at sea, viii., 

 371 ; ferrying and boxing or trunking, 

 viii., 371-374; duration of voyages, 

 viii., 374; sale of fish, viii., 375; 

 settling up, viii., 377; laws relating 

 to building, viii., 379 ; provisions of 

 Merchant Shipping Bill, 1882, as to 

 classification, viii., 423; grant of 

 bounties, ix., 1/9 ; lettering and num- 

 bering, ix., 192, 237 ; their classifica- 

 tion, ix., 234; production of certificate 

 of registration by owners, ix. , 236 ; 

 definition of term fishing-boats, ix., 

 237; international law with respect 

 to fishing vessels, ix., 238 ; fishing- 

 boats subject to the operation of the 

 Merchant Shipping Acts, ix., 237, 

 250, 251 ; character of the boats em- 

 ployed in the British Islands, and in 

 the United States, xiii., 115-120, 

 295 ; use of steam fishing boats, xiii., 

 1 1 8, 296. See also Boats and Smacks. 



Fishing villages, sanitary condition of, 

 ii., 200, 270 



Fishing weirs and mill-dams. See 

 Weirs. 



Fishmongers' Company, their heraldic 

 bearings, iii., 33 ; financial assistance 

 rendered by them to the promotion 

 of the Exhibition, xiii., 256 



Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond, remarks 

 by, on Swedish Fisheries, v., 255 ; 

 on Spanish Fisheries, v., 355, 362 



FitzRoy, Admiral, his system of storm- 

 warnings, vii., 179 



" Fixed engines" for taking fish, i., 

 213, 221, 222 ; ix., 146, 232 ; xiii., 

 6, 7 ; regulations in Scotland as to, 

 i., 236 ; arguments in favour of, in 

 Scotland, ii., 306 ; Indian, ii., 485 ; 

 for capture of salmon, state of the 

 law respecting them, viii., 501 ; sug- 

 gestions for improvement of existing 

 laws, viii., 515 



Fixed-nets, description of certain nets 

 so defined, i., 295-302 



Fjords of Norway, v., 273 



Flags, use for storm-warnings in the 

 United States, vii., 182 



Flair, a name given at Aberdeen to the 

 skate, viii., 318 



Flanie, a name given in Northumber- 

 land to the skate, viii., 318 



Flat fish, species taken in British 

 seas, i., 12 ; their easy capture in cold 

 weather, i., 43 ; anatomical details, 

 ii., 144-146; ignorance of their 

 habits, iv., 209; their occurrence in 

 fable, iii., 55 ; the two groups of flat 

 fishes distinguished, viii., 181 ; changes 

 in the position of the eyes according 

 to age, viii., 182 ; x., 11-14 5 prepon- 

 derance of females, viii., 185 ; modi- 

 fications of the eye, and provision for 

 its protection, viii., 186 ; mode of 

 capture, viii., 186 ; alleged decrease 

 in their numbers, viii., 186; geogra- 

 phical distribution, viii., 187 ; are for 

 the most part inhabitants of salt 

 water, viii., 187; colouration of the 

 fish on one side only, x., 14. See 

 also under various species. 



Flatheads, their excellence as food 

 fishes, v., 315 



Flavouring, herbs and condiments for, 

 vii., 25 



Flax drift-nets, use of on the Irish coast, 

 i., 281 



Fleeting system of fishing, its dangers, 

 iv., 386, 395; its advantages, vii., 



323 

 Flemings, their early pre-eminence upon 



the seas, i., 491 



Flesh, chemical analysis of its composi- 

 tion, vii., 5, 8 

 Fleuk, a name given on the east coast 



of Scotland to the turbot, viii., 193 

 Fleuk, flewke and fluek, names given 



to the flounder, viii., 216 

 " Flie " (a fish), best in June, i., 398 

 Flies, dead, attacked by mould, vi., 10 

 " Floating Anchor," description of, vi., 



119 



Floating islands, stories of, iii., 329 

 Floating mattresses, for saving life at 



sea, vii., 210 

 Float net and tackle, classed with fixed 



engines, 1873, i- 222 

 Floats, materials employed in their 



construction, xiii., 5, 6 



