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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Natural History, its bearing upon fish- 

 ery legislation, iv., 205; ix., 165, 

 170, 210-212 ; State aid in scientific 

 research, ix., 215 



Natural history of fish, acquaintance 

 therewith to be fostered by the pro- 

 posed National Fisheries Association, 

 iv., 199 ; information on this point 

 necessary to the full development of 

 practical fishing, iv., 205; a subject 

 of general interest, vii., 3 



Natural history of fishes and other 

 aquatic animals, condensed report 

 thereon, xiii., 327-335 



Nauplius, or paper nautilus, iii., 269 ; 

 superstition concerning it, iii., 270; 

 general description, iii., 270, 271 



Nautilus, a favourite emblem in South- 

 ern Europe, iii., 76 ; fables concern- 

 ing it, iii., 264; description of its 

 shell and habits, iii., 265 ; mentioned 

 in poetry, iii., 265-268 



Navies, originally manned by fishermen, 



iv - 34 



Navigation, its origin, viii. , 4 ; hindered 

 by weirs and dams, viii., 317; laws 

 affecting "kidelli" or fishing weirs 

 in navigable rivers in the year 1215, 

 and subsequently, viii., 317, 318; 

 identity of the fishery and navigation 

 interests, viii., 318 



Necked barnacles (lepas anatifera}, 

 general description, iii., 309 



Necromancy and astrology in their con- 

 nection with fish, iii. , 5 1 



Needham Press, in reference to a pro- 

 cess of river cleansing from pollution, 

 iv., 268 



Needle-fish, a name given to the gar- 

 pike, viii., 236 



Negro fishermen, numerous in the 

 United States, v., 22 



Neilgherry mountains (India), habits of 

 fish breeding in their streams, ii., 



474 



Nellore district (India), customs of the 

 fishing population there, ii., 462 



Net making, in Ireland, State-aided 

 technical education required to 

 encourage it there, vii., 136 



Net-meshes, their dimensions regulated 



by law, i., 223 ; power of the Fishery 

 Board to enforce compliance in the 

 British white herring fishery, i., 242 

 Nematodes, a common parasite in 

 mackerel, cod, herrings, &c., vi., 261 

 Nene Angling Club, iii., 158, 159 

 Nerophis, its mode of spawning, ii., 18 

 Ness fishery district, the constitution of 



fishery boards, vi., 194 

 Nests for protection of ova, viii., 35 

 Nets, kinds used for different sorts of 

 fish, i., 12, 509, 512 ; the trawl net, i., 

 J 3> 509 ; iv., 53 ; x., 420 ; the drift 

 net, i., 14, 512; iv., 59; x., 420; 

 recent improvements in nets, i., 208, 

 220 ; may be used for salmon capture 

 under certain conditions, i., 223, 

 224, 228, 229 ; regulations in respect 

 of landing nets, i. , 240 ; partial renewal 

 of nets frequently necessary, i., 263 ; 

 nets used upon the foreshore in 

 France, i., 501, 502 ; development of 

 the Grimsby fishing industry, i. , 509 ; 

 description of the nets used in deep 

 sea fishing, i., 509, 513; "stake," 

 or bag nets, ii., 306; objections to 

 their use, ii., 307; their general use 

 in Scotland, ii., 311; rules as to 

 salmon netting in Scotland, ii., 312; 

 rules for limiting the size of the mesh, 

 ii., 313 ; iv., 206 ; mesh of nets used 

 in India, ii., 483, 484; fixed and 

 other nets in use in inland waters in 

 India, ii., 485-489 : International 

 Conference upon nets, iv., 29 ; de- 

 scription of the various kinds of 

 nets used in the United States, 

 * v - 53, 595 size of the mesh of 

 nets, iv., 309, 312-314, 326, 335, 

 341, 343 ; remarks at Fishermen's 

 Congress as to evils resulting from 

 use of small meshed nets, iv., 311- 

 320, 323, 325-327, 328, 329, 330, 

 335, 337, 346, 352, 353 5 net fishing 

 as practised in Cornwall and Scot- 

 land, iv., 434 ; the nets used in lake 

 fisheries of Canada, v., 148; nets 

 used in China, v., 174; modes 

 adopted in Japan description of the 

 nets used there, v., 201-206; cod 

 seine used in Newfoundland, v., 231 ; 



