ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



103 



Middle States (United States) shore 

 fisheries, statistics, v., 24, 25 



Middleham Angling Association, iii., 

 158 



Middleman, or " bomaree," i., 60 ; his 

 usefulness, i., 61 



Midland Railway, rates for carriage of 

 fish, iv., 375, 376 



Midsummer herrings, price of, iv., 320 

 -322 



Mid water fish, why so called, vi., 280 



Migration offish, salmon, ii., 296, 306, 

 309; vi., ISS-^S. l8 55 mackerel 

 and pilchards not true migrants, vi., 

 125, 140; theories with regard to, 

 vi., 154 ; viii., 39 ; effect of tempera- 

 ture on, vi., 157; viii., 39; migra- 

 tion of tunny, vii., 247 ; of herring, 

 viii., 39 



Milford, fisheries unimportant, viii., 



339 



Mill-dams, or mill-weirs, their effect on 

 salmon fisheries, i., 217 ; ii., 325 ; 

 viii., 528 ; state of the law with re- 

 gard to them, i., 217-222 ; ii., 326- 

 327 ; viii. , 528-531. See also Fishing 

 mill-dams. 



Miller's thumb, or river bullhead, i., 

 97 ; varieties, i., 97 ; size, i., 97 ; use 

 in heraldry, iii., 67 



Mills, salmon passes versus, ii., 325-327 



Milltown, Lord, remarks by, on the 

 Irish fisheries, vii., 106-108 



Miln, W. S., prize essay on "the 

 Fisheries of the East Coast of Scot- 

 land, the Orkneys, and the He- 

 brides," xi., 183-224 



Milt, or "soft roe," development of, in 

 the salmon, ii., 297-298 ; deposit of, 

 in spawning bed, vi., 150-151 ; de- 

 scription of it, viii., 33 



Minced fish, used for feeding young 

 lobsters, vi., 334, 337 



Mining and manufacturing industries, 

 value of, contrasted with that of 

 salmon fisheries, ii., 320 



Mining industries, pollution of rivers 

 by waste and refuse from, iv., 274, 

 276 



Minnesota, statistics of fisheries, v., 24 

 25 



Minnow (the), anatomical details of the 

 family to which it belongs, i., 168 ; 

 ii., 136-137; diversity of opinion as 

 to the advisability of placing minnows 

 in trout ponds, ii., 58 ; spawning, ii., 

 77; vi., 219; localities in which 

 found, ii. , 77 ; habits, vi. , 1 58 ; as food 

 for salmon, vi., 220 ; cultivation of, 

 vi., 220; parasites affecting, vi., 250- 



Minorcan fishermen in the United 

 States, v., 21 



Mirror carp, description, i., 202 ; culti- 

 vated in Germany, ii., 74 



Mississippi, statistics of fisheries, v., 

 24, 25, 30, 31 



Mitchell, W. Stephen, paper by him 

 on " the place of fish in a hard- 

 working diet," i., 327-462 



Mobius, Professor (of Kiel), on the 

 artificial cultivation of carp, iv., 413 ; 

 his investigations as to the nature of 

 herring food, xi., 138, 155 ; his opi- 

 nion as to the impracticability of in- 

 creasing the production of oysters in 

 German waters by culture, xi., 404 



" Mock Turtle " soups, use of conger 

 eels in making, ii., 153 



Modes of fishing, with trawl-nets, i., 

 12; ii., 233, 234, 235; v., 205; 

 drift-nets, i., 12 ; ii., 228, 245 ; seine- 

 nets, i., 12 ; ii., 225, 245 ; line-fishing, 

 i., 12; ii., 239, 240, 241; v., 201, 

 203 ; net-fishing, ii., 208, 209, 220; 

 v., 201, 203; traps, ii., 251; gill- 

 nets, ii., 263, 264; remarks by Mr. 

 Alward on net-fishing, iv., 342 ; de- 

 structiveness of certain modes, iv., 

 342, 417; necessity for legislation 

 concerning the same, iv., 417. See 

 also Apparatus for fishing. 



" Mogul," loss of the, vii., 213 



Mohanees (Sind fishermen), ii., 458 



Mollusca, general description of varie- 

 ties and structure of soft -bodied 

 mollusca, iii., 334-341 ; application 

 of the term " fish " to molluscs mis- 

 leading, iii., 335 ; (edible) Japanese, 

 v., 200 ; notes of some of the exhibits 

 in the New South Wales Court, v., 

 338-348 ; cultivation of in Spain, v., 

 357 



