ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



12; 



Practical Fishermen's Congress, iv., 



307-403 



Practical fish cooking, viii., 23-28 



Prawns, means of capture, i., 295 ; 

 habitat, i., 295 ; use as food, i., 431 ; 

 as bait in India, ii., 455 ; the United 

 States fishery, v., 25 



Precious stones, from fish, iii., 51, 52 



Predaceous birds, destruction of her- 

 rings by, iv., 15 ; vi., 77, 92, 107 



Predacious fish, destruction of herrings 

 by, v., 436; vi., 77, 90, 92, 95, 

 99, 107, 269 



Prescriptive rights in connection with 

 river pollution, vii., 67, 68 



Preservation of fish for market, neces- 

 sity, in Ireland, for Government aid 

 towards technical education therein, 

 vii., 136; preservation by conditions 

 of temperature, vii., 221-241 ; ob- 

 jects to be aimed at, vii., 224; re- 

 frigerating cars necessary for tran- 

 sport, vii., 225, 226 



Preserved fish : sardines, v. , 356 ; modes 

 of preserving fish, viii., 55 ; cod, viii., 

 139 ; haddock, viii. ; 145 



" President," loss of the, vii., 200 



Pribylov Islands, fur-seal fishery at, v., 



19 

 Price, Captain G. E., R.N., M.P., on 



inadequacy of provision of boats on 

 passenger steamers, vii. , 202 

 Price of fish, high in London, i., 57, 

 60 ; reasons for this, i., 58 ; prices 

 of fish in ancient times, i., 392, 396, 

 398, 485, 486 ; effect of high prices 

 on the poor, iv., 333 ; haddock, iv., 

 351 ; ray, iv., 368; list of prices of 

 Norwegian fish, v., 293, 294 ; price 

 of cod, vii., 85 ; of mackerel, vii., 



85 ; of sprats, vii., 85 ; of eels, vii., 



86 ; a subject of contention from very 

 early times, ix., 153-162, 240; laws 

 passed with the view of keeping down 

 prices, ix., 154-162, 240; causes 

 which influence it, ix., 290-293. See 

 also Fish and Fisheries. 



" Prime " fish, why so called, i., 59 ; 



sorting of, ii., 235 

 Primitive fish-beliefs, chap. vii. Fishes 



of Fancy, iii., 80-83 



Prince Edward Island, lobster cannery 



there, v., 47 ; fisheries of the island, 



v., 119, 137 

 " Princess Alice," loss of the, vii., 200, 



206, 207 



Prickly comfrey, vii., 273 

 Pringlea aniiscorbutica, vii., 273 

 Prinkle, a local name for the coal-fish, 



viii., 154 

 Private fisheries, powers of owners of, 



i., 229, 234 

 Private ponds, management of, by the 



fish culturist, vi., 275 

 Private rights, how defined, ix., 226 

 Privileges of fishery, ecclesiastical, iii., 



33 ; royal, iii., 46, 47 ; feudal, iii., 46, 



47> 56, 67, 70 ; municipal, iii., 68 

 Proceeds of Exhibition, as to disposal 



of, vii., 328 

 Proclamation as to fish by James I., L, 



410; by Charles I., i., 410 

 Profits, divisions of, among fishermen 



vii., 320 



Propagation of fish. See Fish Culture. 

 Prophet's-fish, iii., 35 

 Proprietors (upper) and salmon angling, 



ii- 349, 350 



Prosecutions under Salmon Acts, sug- 

 gestions as to, vi., 171 



Protection of fish, fisheries, &c., protec- 

 tion of fresh -water fisheries, power 

 of Conservators, i., 229, 233 ; local 

 authorities, i., 230 ; legislation con- 

 cerning Scotch freshwater fisheries, 

 i' 235 ; and those of Ireland, i., 

 237 ; protection of clam and bait 

 beds, i., 246 ; recent Board of Trade 

 Act concerning the sa^ne, i., 246 ; 

 necessity for protection of salmon 

 fisheries, ii., 281, 284, 285, 316 ; vi., 

 1 88; results of protection, ii., 284, 

 285 ; protection of spawning fish and 

 young fry, ii., 316 ; protection of 

 fish in India, ii., 496-497 ; difficulty 

 of carrying out an effective system, 

 iv., 12; protection of crab and lob- 

 ster fisheries, iv., 108, 323 ; bene- 

 ficial results which have accrued, 

 owing to protection of those fish- 

 eries, iv., 1 08 ; protection of her- 

 ring spawning beds, iv., 327 ; 



