ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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nets used in Spain, v., 358 ; vii., 249, 

 250; and in the Mediterranean, v., 

 359 ; nets used on the West Coast of 

 Africa, v. , 444-447 ; description of a 

 net made by Arabs from whale 

 sinews, v., 482 ; nets used by French 

 mackerel boats off the coast of Kin- 

 sale in the early part of the i8th 

 century, vii., 119; Scotch mackerel 

 and herring nets, vii., 123 ; prepara- 

 tions for the preservation of nets, vii., 

 124 ; methods suggested for their 

 improvement, vii., 126; method of 

 raising them in the Canadian seal 

 fisheries, vii., 157 ; nets used in the 

 capture of seals, vii., 157 ; forms now 

 used, viii., 44, 345, 348 ; laws relative 

 to size of mesh, ix., 151, 171, 280; 

 finally repealed, ix., 238 ; regulations 

 for the protection of nets, ix. , 238 ; 

 salvage of nets, ix., 238; right of 

 fishermen to use land for drying 

 them, ix., 242 ; material used in their 

 manufacture, ix., 282; descriptions 

 of net in general use, x., 420-423 ; 

 necessity of some limitation as to 

 minimum size of mesh, x., 424 ; sug- 

 gested restrictions of the use of certain 

 kinds of nets, x. , 424 ; inferiority of 

 those formerly used in the herring 

 fishery, xi., 1 06 ; invention by Pater- 

 son of a machine for making nets, 

 XL, no ; the superiority of machine- 

 made nets over hand-made ones, 

 xi., no; mode of hauling nets in 

 large boats, xi., in ; value of cutch 

 for tanning nets, xi., 112; use of 

 the trawl-net in the Scotch herring 

 fishery, xi., 113-116; of drift-nets, xi., 

 116 ; of the inverted drift-net, xi., 117, 

 167 ; of bottom-nets, xi., 117 ; destruc- 

 tion of nets by dog-fish and by bask- 

 ing shark, xi., 122 ; allegations as to 

 injury caused to herring fishery by 

 the use of the trawl, xi., 155-159; 

 damage caused by the "devil," xi., 

 158; necessity for regulations as to 

 size of mesh in herring nets, xi., 159; 

 damage caused to nets by lost anchors, 

 xi., 159 ; materials used in their con- 

 struction in various countries, xiii., 



5, 6 ; similarity in mode of using 

 nets in various countries, xiii., 7 ; 

 silk nets used in inland fisheries in 

 China, xiii., 21 ; use in different 

 countries of the trawl net, xiii., 45, 

 115, 126; the gill net, xiii., 61 ; the 

 drift net, xiii., 115, 117, 119, 124, 

 125 ; and the purse seine, xiii., 115, 

 117, 119, 123; device for preventing 

 the closing of the mesh under pres- 

 sure, xiii., 314 



Netherlands, the. See Holland. 



Nettles, should be grown on the banks 

 of waters containing fish, vii., 272 



Neumann, Mr., his remarks upon com- 

 parative value of free trade and pro- 

 tection for fisheries, iv., 185 ; assists 

 in preparation of Chinese section of 

 the Exhibition, v., 172 



Nevophth, representation, at his tomb, 

 of angling, i., 471 



New Bedford, an American fishing port, 

 v., 5 ; the head quarters of the United 

 States whaling fleet, v., 19 



New Brunswick, lobster canneries, v., 

 47; its fishing industry, v., 119; 

 development thereof, v., 132; firms 

 engaged therein, v., 133 ; mackerel 

 fleet, v., 137; lobster fishery, v., 

 139 ; smelt and kindred fisheries, v., 

 149 ; close time for salmon fishery, 

 v., 155 



New England, statistical statement re- 

 specting New England fisheries, v. t 

 24, 25 ; shore cod fishery, v., 25 ; 

 value of shore fisheries, v., 27 ; the 

 halibut fishery, v., 48 



Newfoundland, salt fish imported 

 thence, iv., 118-119; lobster cannery 

 there, v., 47; its cod fishery, v., 120; 

 its seal fishery, v., 141 ; capital in- 

 vested in the fishing industry, v., 

 143 ; its history as a colony, v., 

 227-230 ; great commercial impor- 

 tance and value of the cod fishery 

 there, v., 230-232; xiii., 52; extent 

 of fishing ground possessed by the 

 colony, v., 231 ; the seal fishery prin- 

 cipally pursued by steam vessels, v., 

 232 ; vii., 169 ; importance and value 

 of the seal fishery, v., 232-235 ; xiii., 



