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134, 135, 150; fishing vessels, in- 

 ferior to those of other countries in 

 the I7th century, vii., 118; much 

 improved since that time, vii., 119; 

 ports from which worked, viii. , 340 ; 

 not well prosecuted, viii., 340; local 

 jealousy of English fishermen, viii., 

 341 ; fish principally sought for, viii., 

 341 ; vessels employed, viii., 341 ; 

 statistics showing value, number of 

 vessels and men employed, &c., viii., 

 378; how supervised, viii., 462; 

 Bill authorising loans to fishermen, 

 ix., 228 ; appointment of fishery offi- 

 cers, ix., 247; benefits likely to re- 

 sult from a system of loans to fisher- 

 men, ix., 283 ; time of appearance of 

 herring on Irish coasts, xi., 136; 

 antiquity of the herring fishery, xi., 



137; 



Irish fishermen, their economic con- 

 dition, iv., 183 ; their honesty and 

 hardihood, vii., 95 ; their lack of 

 persistent industry, vii., 95 



Irish legends of mermaids, iii., 221 



Irish railways, suggestions for their ac- 

 quisition by the State, vii., 139 



Irish reproductive loan fund for fisher- 

 men, ii., 251 



Irish salmon fisheries, principal salmon 

 rivers in the south of the island, ii., 

 379 ; method of dealing with of- 

 fences against fishery laws, vi., 171, 

 199 ; quantity of salmon sent annually 

 to the London market during the 

 five years ending 1883, vi., 8 ; super- 

 vision of the fisheries, vi., 199 ; 

 amount received for license dues in 

 1880, vi., 199 ; annual reports of 

 inspectors, vi., 199; assistance of the 

 coastguard and constabulary in pre- 

 venting poaching and the pollution 

 of rivers, vi., 199 



Iron and steel wire works, pollution of 

 rivers by, iv., 277, 278 ; remedies for 

 this, iv., 278 



Iron concrete, ix., 98 



Iron, extensively used in the construc- 

 tion of piers, &c., ix., 92; its des- 

 tructibility, ix., 92 



"Iron man," xi., in 



Iron mines, pollution of rivers by, iv., 



275 

 Irrawaddi, time of ascent of this river 



by anadromous shad, ii., 477 

 Irrigation as a means of dealing with 



sewage, vii., 57 

 Irrigation works in India, their effect 



upon freshwater fisheries, ii., 470, 



471 



Irwell, river, its pollution, iv., 257 

 Isinglass, a production of maritime 



fisheries, ii., 444; quantity produced 



in Massachusetts in 1880, v., 9 ; 



made in Canada from codfish sounds, 



v., 128 

 Isis, worshipped by the ancient Suevi, 



i. 474 

 Italian fishermen in the United States, 



V., 21 



Italy, fish culture among the Romans, 

 ii., 5 ; fish culture at the present day, 

 ii., 7 j allusion to Italian fisheries 

 by classic writers, ii., 256 ; establish- 

 ment of seaside laboratories for inves- 

 tigations respecting marine organisms, 

 iv., 424; importation of Canadian 

 codfish, v., 131 j its importation of 

 Norwegian fish, v., 292; mode of 

 cooking cured codfish, v., 293, 299; 

 exhibits unimportant, xiii., 37 ; Prof. 

 Giglioli's account of the Italian fish- 

 eries, xiii., 38 ; mullet and eel fish- 

 eries, xiii. 39 ; the coral fishery, xiii., 

 39 j how worked, xiii., 40 ; processes 

 of manufacture, xiii., 41 ; total value 

 of the fisheries, xiii.. no ; con- 

 densed report on the fishing indus- 

 tries of this country, xiii., 455-482 



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Jabtga (a net used in Spanish waters), 



destruction of fish caused by it, vii., 



251, 252 

 Jack, another name for the pike, i., 



166 



Jacket net, xi., 141 

 Jackie-downies, a name given in the 



Moray Firth to the bib, viii., 148 



