ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



143 



of fishery in certain localities, viii., 

 54; fishes caught in British seas, 

 enumerated and described, viii., 

 57-328 ; antiquity of the cod-fishery, 

 viii., 123; its productiveness, viii., 

 134 ; destruction of fry of all kinds 

 offish by in-shore nets, viii., 274; 

 laws for their regulation and protec- 

 tion, viii., 333-485 ; description of 

 the fisheries carried on in British 

 seas, viii., 333-345 ; nets used, viii., 

 345-348 ; fish caught on various 

 coasts, viii., 349-351 ; grievances of 

 fishermen, viii., 351 ; mode of con- 

 ducting the fisheries, viii., 375 ; sale 

 offish caught, viii., 375 ; settling up, 

 viii., 377; value of fisheries in the 

 United Kingdom and countries con- 

 tiguous to it, viii., 377 ; effects of 

 the present law as to desertions, viii., 

 388 ; desirability of formation of one 

 Fisheries' Board for the United 

 Kingdom, viii. , 464 ; suggestions as 

 to its constitution, viii., 467 ; taking 

 of immature fish, viii., 484; a nur- 

 sery for the Navy, ix., 173, 174; all 

 British subjects free to take part 

 in the sea fisheries of the United 

 Kingdom, ix., 174, 240; protec- 

 tive legislation unnecessary, ix., 

 207 ; with some few exceptions, 

 ix., 208 ; present state of the 

 law with respect to fisheries, ix., 

 219 : fishing ports of England, Wales, 

 and the Isle of Man, ix., 255-257; 

 descriptions of nets used, x., 420- 

 423; line fishing, x., 423; steam 

 capstans, x. , 424, 434-436 ; necessity 

 for regulations limiting size of mesh 

 in nets and establishing close seasons, 

 x., 424; steam fishing vessels, x., 

 425-434 ; advantages of steam car- 

 riers, x., 436-446 ; railway companies 

 and the rates charged by them for 

 carriage of fish, x., 446-453; refri- 

 gerating vans, x., 453-456 ; improved 

 fish markets, conditions necessary to 

 be observed in designing them, x., 

 456-463 ; cold storage in fish mar- 

 kets x., 463-465 ; number of vessels 

 and persons employed in Great 



Britain in the fishing industry, x., 

 466 ; quantity of fish carried by rail 

 in 1 88 1, x., 466; necessity for 

 government control of the fisheries, 

 x., 466; sea fisheries of the United 

 Kingdom, their wide importance, 

 xiii. , 249 ; energetic prosecution of 

 fishing operations in recent years, 

 xiii., 294; importance of the trawl- 

 ing industry, xiii., 294 ; and of the 

 drift net fishery, xiii., 294; other 

 modes of fishing, xiii., 295; boats 

 and vessels used in the fisheries, xiii., 

 295 ; application of steam power to 

 such vessels, xiii., 296; improved 

 appliances used at the present day, 

 xiii., 296; dangers to which fisher- 

 men are exposed in making for har- 

 bour, xiii., 297; life boats and life 

 saving appliances, their relation to 

 the fishing industry, xiii., 297 ; means 

 of communication with the shore by 

 vessels at sea, xiii., 298 ; number of 

 persons engaged in fisheries, xiii., 

 304 ; annual value of fisheries, xiii., 

 304 ; modes of curing and otherwise 

 preserving fish, xiii., 307 ; minor 

 products of fisheries, xiii., 309, 310 



Sea Fisheries Act. See Acts of Parlia- 

 ment. 



Sea Fisheries Act of 1843, ix., 239 



Sea Fisheries Act of 1868, iv., 86, 88 ; 

 vi., 307> 3H 5 ix., 210, 235, 261-266 



Sea Fisheries Commission, 1866, re- 

 commendation as to collection of 

 statistics, vi., 72 ; describe evil effects 

 of close time on west coast of Scot- 

 land, vi., 79 ; opinion on exhaustion 

 of the herring fisheries, vi., 89 



" Sea Fishes of Great Britain," paper 

 thereon by Mr. Francis Day, viii., 

 1-328 



Sea fishing, special list of works on, iii., 

 68 



Sea geese, whereabouts of Crustacea 

 indicated by, vi., 295 



Sea griffin, iii., 72 



Sea gulls, destruction of young salmon 

 by, vi., 153 



Sea (the), heights reached by it in gales 

 and storms, ix., 52 



