FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



fishing, vii., 154; of Scotch herring 

 fishery, ix., 173 ; value of statistics 

 generally, ix., 183, 215 



Statutes (general and special) regulating 

 salmon and other fisheries, i., 207 j 

 quotations from Magna Charta as to 

 river fishing, i., 212 ; (local) for the 

 Ouse and Humber, i., 213 ; prohi- 

 biting "fixed engines," snares, &c., 

 for taking salmon, i., 217-246; re- 

 stricting use of certain kinds of fish, 

 iii., 46; analysis of statutes relating 

 to fisheries, ix., 296-298 ; statute of 

 herrings, xi., 136 



Stavanger (Norway), a spawning ground 

 for herrings, v., 153 



Stay-ship, or remora, ancient supersti- 

 tions respecting, iii., 25 



Steam appliances for fishing purposes, 

 advantages of, iv., 310; vii., 100, 

 103, 106, 127, 130, 143, 146, 149; 

 xiii., 296 



Steam-boilers in fishing vessels, state of 

 the law thereon, viii., 448 



Steam capstans, x., 424 ; their advan- 

 tages, x., 434 ; xiii., 119 ; objects to 

 be secured in designing them, x., 

 434; cost, x., 435; xiii., 119; may 

 be used with economy on steam fbh- 

 ing vessels, x., 435 



Steam carriers, conveyance of fish to 

 market by, ii., 235, 237; vi., 83; 

 suggested improvements therein, vii., 

 129 ; number employed at Hull and 

 Grimsby, vii., 311; quantity of fish 

 carried by one of these vessels, vii., 

 322 ; method of packing fish for trans- 

 port therein, vii., 324 ; for what pur- 

 pose employed, x., 436 ; mode of 

 transferring the fish from fishing 

 vessels to the carriers, x., 436; ad- 

 vantages derived from their use, x., 

 436-439 ; relative cost of conveyance 

 of fish by this means as compared 

 with railways, x., 439, 451 ; their 

 possible employment in connection 

 with distant fishing-grounds, x., 440- 

 442; their history, x., 442, 443; 

 character of the vessels employed, x., 

 443 ; their earnings, x., 444 ; design 

 to be adopted for vessels in this 



trade, x., 444, 445; advantage of 

 providing tanks for ready transfer of 

 fish from vessels to shore, x., 445 ; 

 and a steam launch for transfer of fish 

 from fishing vessels to carrier, x., 

 446 ; excellence of models of these 

 vessels in the Exhibition, xiii., 118 



Steam fishing vessels, use of, at Hull, 

 iv., 347 ; suggestion for general use 

 of steam power in fisheries, iv., 382 ; 

 vi., 82, 88; opinion as to unsuita- 

 bility of vessels now used for trawling, 

 iv., 398, 400; suggested use of, in 

 Ireland, vii., 96, 100, 103, 128, 131, 

 J 39j J 43> *46 J advantages of intro- 

 duction of steam power in Aberdeen 

 fisheries, vii., 103 ; recent intro- 

 duction of steam fishing vessels, 

 x., 425 ; not employed solely in 

 the fisheries, x., 425 ; their employ- 

 ment in foreign countries, x., 426 ; 

 reasons why they are not more 

 generally used in the trade, x., 426- 

 427 ; arguments against their use, x., 

 427, 428 ; arguments in their favour, 

 x., 428-430 ; adaptation of machinery 

 to work refrigerating apparatus, x., 

 430 ; type of vessels most suitable, 

 x., 430-432 ; their value as a means 

 of speedily conveying fish caught to 

 market, x., 432, 433; probable cost, 

 x., 433 ; their extended use a subject 

 worthy of consideration, x., 467 ; 

 employment of such boats not gene- 

 rally successful, xi., 112 ; of service 

 in "outside" fishing, xi., 112; use 

 of steam launches advocated, xi., 

 1 16. See also Fishing Vessels. 



Steam launches, their destruction of 

 ova, iii. , 103 ; and of immature fish, 

 iii*! 105 ; their use as tenders for 

 trawlers recommended, xi., 116 



Steam trawling, steam applied to beam- 

 trawlers, i., 273 ; use of these vessels 

 in North Sea, ii., 233 ; destruction of 

 spawn by steam trawlers, iv., 208, 

 327 ; advantages of steam trawling in 

 fishing among rough ground, iv., 

 336 ; trawling by steam-tugs, viii., 

 334> 349 ; losses occasioned by it to 

 line fishermen, viii., 349 



