ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



157 



Steam vessel used as floating station 

 for hatching shad, &c., in United 

 States, vii., 82 



Steam vessels used in seal trade, vii., 

 167-169 



Steamers, rates of carriage of fish by, 

 iv., 133, 365 ; their substitution for 

 junks in China, v., 171, 176 ; proba- 

 bly destructive to eggs and fry, viii., 55 



Steering apparatus, xiii., 313-316 



Steller, report by, as to sea-ape, iii., 

 213, 227 



Stenloch, a local name for the coal-fish, 

 viii., 154 



Stephens, Mr., statement as to river 

 pollution at Hereford, vii., 41 



Sterlet, acclimatized in English aquaria, 

 i., 203 ; eaten as a delicacy in Russia, 



ii-> 157 



Stettin, number of herring imported at, 

 vi., 74; the trade with this place in 

 Scotch herring, xi., 164 



Stevenson, Mr., remarks on carriage of 

 fish, iv., 360 



Stevenson, Thomas, C.E., his views 

 regarding the methods of construct- 

 ing harbours, with references to the 

 natural conditions on which his 

 opinions are based, ix., 40, 44-113 



Stickleback, its anatomy, i., 143 ; 

 ii., 1 1 8, 148 ; season for eating it, i., 

 399 ; use of the spines for purposes 

 of defence, ii., 147; legend in con- 

 nection with Noah's ark, iii., 84 



Stilling basins, ix., 75 



Stillwell's aerating pump, description 

 of, ii., 57 



Sting-bull, a name given in Sussex to 

 the greater weever, viii., 80 



Sting fishes, viii, 79-83 ; wounds in- 

 flicted by them very poisonous, vjji, 

 79 ; remedies, viii., 80 



Sting-rays. See Rays. 



Stink -alive, a name given to the bib, 

 viii., 148 



Stirling, J., prize essay on " The Pro- 

 pagation of the Salmonidaes," xi., 



3-17 



Stirling, Mr., observations on salmon 

 disease, vi., 9, 14; experiment with 

 "orange fins," vi., 151 



Stockfish (dried), analysis of, i., 364; 

 (salted), analysis of, showing value 

 as food, i., 364; various modes of 

 cooking, v., 299, 300 



Stomach in fish, vi., 270; viii., 14 



Stone bass, haunts of, and its pecu- 

 liarities, i., 87 



Stone, its destruction by Pholas t &c., 

 ix., 91 



Stone, Mr. Livingston, his operations 

 in the collection of eggs of salmon 

 on Sacramento River, ii. , 300, 302 ; 

 one of the earliest fish breeders in 

 America, v., 13, 70 ; efforts to 

 transport lobsters from Atlantic to 

 Pacific, vi., 341 



Stone's conical transportation-box, 

 description of, ii., 57 



Stone-coated worms, swallowed by had- 

 dock, vi., 287 



Stony cobbler, name given at Youghal 

 to the lesser or viper weever, viii., 

 82 



Stonington, head quarters of the sea- 

 elephant fleet of the United States, 

 v., 20 



Storm of 24th October, 1882, its 

 suddenness, vii., 189 



Storm warnings, their benefit to United 

 States fisheries, v., n 



Storm warnings, discussion on, vii., 191- 



195 



Stormontfield, experiment there in 

 salmon culture, vi., 44 



Stornoway, great export of herrings 

 from this district, xi., 146 



Storoggen, fishing grounds of, v., 258 



Stour Fishing Association, iii., 162 



Stow-net, description, i., 295 ; viii., 

 52 ; where and how used, i., 295 ; 

 viii., 52 ; xiii, 295 



Strabo, on the enormous quantities of 

 tunnies caught by the Phoenicians in 

 ancient times, vii., 247 



Straits Settlements, the self-acting rod 

 used there, xiii., 8; population, xiii, 

 9 ; importance of fish as an article of 

 food, xiii., 10; number of persons 

 engaged in fisheries, xiii., 10; plan 

 of fishing with lines carried out by 

 kites, xiii., 10 ; condensed report on 



