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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



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Maasluis fishing-port. See Fishing- 

 ports. 

 "Macaroni piatti," vi., 2O, 252; vii., 



30 



Macdonald, Admiral, remarks by, on 

 life-boats and life-belts, iv., 400 



Macdonald 's egg reel, ii., 7 2 



Macdonald, R., remarks by, on Scotch 

 fisheries, vi., 100 



Macfie, Mr. Matthew, on salmon- 

 fisheries of British Columbia and 

 Vancouver Island, ii., 288 



Machinery, its application to fishing, 

 condensed report thereon, xiii., 311- 



319 



" Machines " for land-carriage of fish, 

 their introduction, ix., 164; privi- 

 leges granted to them, ix., 164, 241 



Mackerel and Pilchard fisheries, discus- 

 sion on, vi., 138-146 



Mackerel, Australian, v., 320-321 



Mackerel, " Green," vi., 116, 146 



Mackerel, Horse. See Horse-mackerel. 



Mackerel-guide, or mackerel-scout, a 

 name given to the gar : pike, viii., 236 



Mackerel, modes of capture, i., 14, 278, 

 286, 311 ; ii., 454; iv., 53, 58; v., 

 40, 126, 138 ; vi., 127 ; viii., 89, 93 ; 

 x., 129 ; allowed to be sold in 

 London on Sundays, i., 38-39 ; 

 rarely eaten by the Scotch, i., 61 ; 

 anatomical details, i., 108; ii., 147, 

 148; vi., 113; viii., 83; x., 122, 

 123; colours of, i., 109; vi., 115, 

 116; abundance of this fish, i., 109, 

 287; commercial value, i., 39; iv., 

 63; x., 131-133; size and weight, 

 i., 109; ii., 147; vi., 116; viii., 98; 

 x., 129 ; curious specimen in the Day 

 collection, i. , 1 10 ; its enemies, i. , 295 ; 

 x., 134, 137 ; value as food, i., 361 ; 

 vii., 20; viii., 96 ; analysis of flesh, 

 i., 362, 364 ; vii., 7 ; when in season, 

 i- 399 ; vi -> 22 > 2 3 5 eggs of, ii., 15 ; 

 iv., 208 ; muscular action after death, 

 ii., 117 ; traditions concerning it, iii., 

 10 ; use in heraldry, iii., 67 ; habits, 

 iv., 63 ; vi., 125, 127, 281 ; viii., 85 ; 



x., 124, 127 ; beautiful appearance of a 

 shoal of mackerel, iv., 63 ; vi., 130; 

 prodigious powers of reproduction, 

 iv., 202 ; its food, iv., 349 ; vi., 281, 

 295; viii., 88; x., 127 ; its destruc- 

 tion of oyster spat, iv., 349 ; spawn- 

 ing, iv., 350; v.,32o; viii., 95; x., 

 128 ; railway rates for carriage of, iv., 

 361, 370; is localised in definite 

 areas, iv.. 415; vi., 129; parasites 

 affecting it, vi., 23, 30, 261 ; varieties, 

 vi., 113; viii., 84; characteristics ot 

 the family, vi., 113 ; x., 123 ; geogra- 

 phical distribution, vi., 113; x., 123, 

 124; power of rapid propulsion, vi., 

 114; its beauty, vi., 115; destruc- 

 tion of, by porpoises, vi., 131 ; its use 

 as bait for halibut, vi., 321 ; quality of 

 flesh, vii., 7 ; x., 130 ; times of arrival 

 on shores of the United Kingdom, 

 viii., 86, 88 ; names, viii., 83 ; its be- 

 haviour in confinement, viii., 89 ; x., 

 I33 !34 ; "huers," viii., 91; 

 presence of, indicated by sea-fowl, 

 viii., 92 ; bait, viii., 93 ; value of 

 catches, viii., 94; hermaphrodites, 

 viii., 95 ; diseases, &c., viii. 95, 96 ; 

 habitat, viii., 97 ; growth, x., 129 ; 

 classical allusions to this fish, x., 

 137, 140; general description, x., 

 140 



Mackerel fisheries, the Irish fishery, i., 

 39; iv., 75, 76, 77; vi., 119, 120, 

 121 ; total value of the fisheries of 

 the British Islands, i., 39 ; xiii., 106 ; 

 number of boats employed, ii., 228; 

 vi., 118; inexhaustibility of the 

 fishery, iv., 14, 108 ; Dingle Bay a 

 rendezvous, iv., 75 ; increase of the 

 fishery, iv. , 90 ; the Norwegian 

 fishery, iv., 76; v., 274, 278; xiii., 

 93 ; great catches off the Irish 

 coasts, iv., 132; railway rates for 

 carriage, iv., 133 ; increase in number 

 of boats employed, iv., 144; size of 

 mesh of nets used, iv., 312 ; the 

 United States fishery, v., 25, 40; 

 vi., 138; xiii. 78; its value, v., 26; 

 statistics of, v., 40; vi., 138, 139; 

 the Canadian fishery, v., 119, 137- 

 139; xiii., 59; rig and description 



