ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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of vessels employed, v., 137 ; bait 

 used, v., 138 ; viii., 93 ; statistics of, 

 v., 139; statistics of the Norwegian 

 fishery, v., 297 ; paper on " Mackerel 

 Fisheries," by Mr. Thomas Cornish, 

 vi., 112-138; discussion thereon, vi., 

 138-146; the Cornish fishery, vi., 

 118, 121; the regulation of the 

 British fisheries desirable, vi., 142; 

 sale of fish, vi., 124, 125 ; history of 

 the American fishery, vi., 139, 141; 

 statistics of the Kinsale fishery, vii., 

 121, 122; the New South Wales 

 fishery, xiii., 25 ; the Swedish 

 fishery, xiii., 83 



Mackerel nets, size of mesh of nets used, 

 iv., 312, 340 ; their construction, viL, 

 123-125; viii., 348; foreign nets, 

 viii., 346 



Mackerel, " Queen" and " King," vi., 

 116 



Mackerel, scribbled and "dotted," i., 

 109; vi., 125 



Mackerel (Spanish), i., 109; vi., 125 



Mackie, Mr., remarks by, on waste of 

 fish, v., 250 



Maclean, Mr., sea-monster seen by, 

 iii., 396 



Macquhae, Captain P., official report of 

 sea-serpent seen by him, iii., 404 



Macrobians, i., 477 



Macrurid(Z, one of the families of soft- 

 finned fishes, i., 155 



Mactear and Mond process, for pre- 

 venting river pollution from alkali 

 works, iv., 264 



Madras, quantity of salt used in pre- 

 paring small fish, ii., 450; capture 

 of Crustacea, ii., 458; priestly chiefs 

 among the fishermen, ii., 460 ; fisher- 

 men, ii., 463 ; the population as fish 

 consumers, ii., 498 ; fish supply of 

 the local markets, ii., 500 



Madura, ii., 463, 481 



Maeotis, veneration of, by the Elephan- 

 tines, iii., 37 



Magdalen Islands, lobster cannery, v., 

 47 ; immense shoals of herring, v., 

 133 ; seal fishery, v., 143 ; vii., 158 



Magellan, Straits of, seal fishery, vii., 

 152, 160; scarcity of seals, vii., 171 



Magna Charta, in reference to rights 

 of fishing in the Thames, i., 209, 212; 

 protection of fisheries and demolition 

 of weirs, ii., 308, 309, 317 



" Maguro," or tunny, large consump- 

 tion of this fish by the Japanese, v., 

 199 



Mahanuddi River, crocodiles in, ii. , 492 



Mahaseers, name given in India to 

 large barbels, ii., 474 



Mahomedan traditions, &c. See Ara- 

 bic legends. 



Maid, another name for the twait-shad, 

 viii., 307 



Maiden herring, or "matjes," v., 286 



Maidenhead, Cookham, and Bray 

 Angling Society, iii., 116 



Maigre, description of, i., 12 1 ; mode 

 of capture, ii., 454 



Maine, Gulf of, remarks by Professor 

 Brown Goode on the fisheries there, 

 vi., 296 



Maine, statistics of the fisheries, v., 24, 

 25, 29, 31, 39, 41 ; vi., 296, 297 ; 

 exceptional fatness of the menhaden 

 caught on the coast of Maine, vi., 

 296 ; yield of oil per hundred fish, 

 vi., 296 



Mainwaring, Hon. W. F. B. Massey, 

 paper on " Preservation of fish life in 

 rivers by exclusion of town sewage," 

 viL, 38-54 



Maitland, Sir James Gibson, remarks 

 by, on the diseases of fish, vi., 27, 

 28 ; paper read at conference on 

 " the culture of salmonidae and the 

 acclimatization of fresh- water fish," 

 vi., 35-51 ; his experiments in fish 

 culture, xiii., 166, 167 ; condensed 

 report by him on fish culture, xiii., 



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Malabar coast, sale of taxed salt, ii., 

 447; drift-net fishing, iL, 454; dip- 

 net fishing, ii., 456 ; increase in the 

 number of sea-fishermen, ii., 462 ; 

 fish shooting, ii., 491 

 Malacopterygian fishes, x., 6 

 Malaga, fish trawling at, vii., 251 

 Malar, Lake, fishery district, v., 266 

 Malay fishermen in the United States, 



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