ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



432 ; ii. , 77 ; number of eggs obtained 

 from a f-lb. specimen, ii., 17 ; mode 

 of hatching, ii., 71 ; time of spawn- 

 ing, ii., 77 ; vi., 220; gales and tides 

 destructive to it, ii.,io5 ; air-bladder 

 described, ii., 137; angling in the 

 Hampshire Avon, ii., 368; plentiful 

 in the Thames from Kew upwards to 

 source, ii., 408; autumnal angling, 

 ii., 426; use in heraldry, iii., 67; 

 rods used in roach-fishing, iii., 447 ; 

 lines hair versus gut, iii. , 448 ; 

 floats shotting, &c., iii., 449; baits 

 of various kinds, iii., 449; ground- 

 baiting, iii., 450; various methods 

 of fishing, iii., 450-452; localities 

 where fish are found, iii., 452; 

 " swims " in summer and winter, iii., 

 452 ; blow-line fishing and dipping, 

 iii., 453 ; roach in trout streams, vi., 

 217 ; conditions under which spawn 

 is deposited, vi., 231 



Roan fleuk, or Roddan, a name given 

 on the east coast of Scotland to the 

 turbot, viii., 193 



Roasting of fish, its advantages, vii. , 27 



Robinson, Professor H. , quotation from 

 a paper on "River Pollution" read 

 by him at Glasgow, iv., 279 



Robinson, Phil., paper, "Fishes of 

 Fancy," iii. 1-97 



Rock-herring, a name given in Scotland 

 (Aberdeen) to the scad, viii., 99; 

 another name for the allice-shad, 

 viii., 305 



Rockling, not of commercial import- 

 ance, i., 152; five-bearded rockling 

 described, i., 153; three-bearded 

 rockling described, i., 153 ; the fry 

 consumed by mackerel, vi., 281 



Rock whiting, whiting pout, or bib, its 

 economic value, i., 152 



Rod, a name given in the Orkneys to 

 the turbot, viii., 193 



Rod and line fishing, i., 219, 224, 227; 

 ".,285 



Roddams, a name given in Northum- 

 berland to the turbot, viii., 193 



Roddan, a name given on the east 

 coast of Scotland to the turbot, viii., 

 193 



Rodney Gut, fishing-grounds in the 



North Sea, ii., 234 

 Rods, self-acting, xiii., 8 

 Roe, development in salmon, ii., 297 

 Rogers' " History of Agriculture and 



Prices in England," i., 391, 395 

 Rogue river, Oregon, salmon supply, 



ii., 9; statistics of its fisheries, v., 34, 



35 



Roller. Whyte, action at law, i., 218 



Romans, the, seine known to them, i., 

 287 ; their system of fish culture, ii., 

 4, 89 ; their fishwives, ii., 255 ; their 

 traditions, &c., iii., 7, 9, ii, 13, 15, 

 25 > 34, 45, 49-5i> 70; their progress 

 in pisciculture, xi., 95, 257 ; their 

 cultivation of the oyster, xi. , 268 



Romsdalen, the cod fisheries there, v., 

 281, 283 



Rookeries of seals in the South Sea, vii., 

 159-161 



" Roole d'Oleron," a code of laws re- 

 lating to mariners and fishermen, i., 

 488 



Roome Bay, its situation and suitability 

 as a site for a harbour, ix., ii ; Mr. 

 Leslie's plans for construction of har- 

 bour, ix., II 



Roosevelt, Hon. R. B., his position as 

 a leading American fish-culturist, v., 



12 



Ropes, materials used in their construc- 

 tion in various countries, viii., 6 



Roscoff, zoological station there, iv., 427 



Rosehearty, N.B., steps taken by Scotch 

 Fishery Board to improve harbour, 

 ix., 16 



Rosellini, his translation of a hieroglyph 

 relating to fishing, i., 472 



Rot in sheep, &c., caused by flukes, vi., 

 249 



Rothesay Aquarium, experiments made 

 there with the view of ascertaining 

 the length of time taken by the her- 

 ring to arrive at maturity, xi., 119 



Rothsay, a seat of the herring fishery in 

 the beginning of the igth century, xi., 

 108 



Rough hound. See Dog-fishes. 



Round-fish, as contradistinguished from 

 flat-fish, i., 12 



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