ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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Starch works, pollution of rivers by, 



iv., 271 

 Starchy matter, necessary for sustaining 



muscular exertion, vii., II 

 Starfish, use in heraldry, iii., 75 ; injury 



caused by them to oyster beds, xi., 



290, 394 ; and to mussel scalps, xi., 



427, 459 



Start point, eastern boundary of pil- 

 chard fishery, vi., 131 



State aid to fisher-folk, less needed 

 than accurate knowledge respecting 

 fisheries, iv., 424 



State purchase of railways in Ireland, 

 local advocacy of this course, vii., 139 



Station for culture of sea food fishes, 

 necessity for its establishment by 

 Government, iv., 324 



Statistics, relating to fish, value of, i., 

 3; want of government statistics re- 

 lating to fishing industry, i., 4, 68, 

 70 ; as to number and value of her- 

 rings taken from the British seas, i., 

 37 ; showing value of the British 

 mackerel fisheries, i., 39 ; relating to 

 value of trawl and line fisheries, i., 

 46 ; showing value of Dutch herring 

 fisheries in the olden time, i., 498; 

 showing number of herrings taken 

 during thirty years from Loch Fyne, 

 i., 516; as to number of fishermen 

 in the French navy, i., 525 ; relating 

 to the Norwegian fisheries, i., 527 ; 

 showing increase in the Yarmouth 

 fishery, i., 537 ; statistics about perch, 

 ii., 72; showing number of fishing 

 vessels engaged in Scotland, ii., 215 ; 

 relating to Yarmouth herring fisheries, 

 ii. , 2 1 9 ; giving quantity of ' ' Newcastle 

 kippers" cured at Yarmouth, ii., 222; 

 showing number of herrings taken at 

 Yarmouth in 1881, ii., 223 ; relating 

 to pilchard fisheries, ii., 227; show- 

 ing wages of fishermen and value of 

 vessels at Grimsby, ii., 236; relating 

 to Irish fisheries, ii., 247, 250 ; con- 

 cerning the Italian fisheries, ii., 258 ; 

 of Lofoten fisheries ii., 264 ; cod, 

 fisheries, iv., 15 ; number of fisher- 

 men employed in British Islands, iv., 

 29 ; vessels employed, iv., 42 ; table 



showing vessels and men employed 

 at different ports, iv., 52; quantity 

 of fish taken by trawlers, iv., 57 ; 

 drift fishery for herrings, iv., 59; 

 quantity of herrings taken by British 

 and Dutch vessels, iv., 62; relating 

 to mackerel fishery, iv., 63 ; oyster 

 fisheries, iv., 71 ; canoes registered 

 as fishing boats in Ireland, iv., 76 ; 

 by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 

 showing quantity of fish taken, iv., 

 119; number of fishermen engaged, 

 iv., 1 20 ; export trade of Scotland, in 

 fish, iv., 123 ; by Mr. Sayer on rail- 

 way and steamboat charges, iv., 133, 

 135 ; number of persons engaged in 

 fishing, iv., 154; number and. ton- 

 nage of fishing boats and proportion 

 of men to, iv., 156; capital employed 

 in fishing, iv., 157; table comparing 

 fishing and agriculture, iv., 159 ; 

 average wages of fishermen, iv., 168; 

 table showing social condition of 

 fishermen, iv., 173; number and 

 tonnage of boats, iv., 177; statistics 

 of Potomac fisheries, iv., 324; charges 

 for carriage of fish in Great Britain, 

 France, Holland, and the United 

 States, iv., 359-367, 369, 372-374 ; 

 as to carriage of fish, iv., 363; of 

 losses of vessels and of lives at sea, 

 iv., 391 ; of the fisheries of the United 

 States, v., 24-52 ; of sea produce in 

 Japan, v., 192, 193 ; relating to 

 herring and sprat fisheries of the 

 Baltic, v., 259 ; fisheries of Sweden, 

 v., 262-9 J f Lofoten cod fishery, v., 

 280, 281, 283 ; of the " Caplin cod " 

 fishery of Finmarken, v., 283 ; of the 

 herring fisheries, v., 286, 288; relating 

 to salmon fisheries, vi., 8, 153, 156, 

 159, 161-163, !78, 183, 187, 199, 

 20 1 ; relating to herring fisheries, vi., 

 73, 75, 81, 82, 85, 87, 98; relating 

 to lobster fisheries, vi., 328 ; Irish 

 herring fisheries, vii., 76 ; carp caught 

 in Austria, vii., 83 ; relating to her- 

 ring and mackerel- fishing off coast of 

 of Kinsale, vii., 122 ; relating to fish- 

 ings on the English, Scotch, and 

 Irish coasts, vii., 140; relating 



