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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



the fishing industries carried on there, 

 xiii., 395-397 



Strand fisheries of United States, v., 26 

 Stream worship by the ancient Britons, 



iii., 46 



Striped bass, artificial hatching of, in 

 United States, v., 14 



Stroma, viii., 33 



Stromatdda (Black-fishes), description 

 of, i., 112 



Sturgeon, anatomical details, i., 183; 

 vi., 271-274 ; a " Royal " fish, i., 

 207 ; iii., 46 ; ix., 286 ; reference to, 

 by Henry Buttes in 1599; i., 403; 

 mentioned by Venner in 1650; i., 

 426 ; habits, ii., 153 ; stated by 

 Lawrens Andrewe to have no mouth, 

 iii., 30; included among the totems 

 of red Indian tribes, iii., 36 ; its 

 occurrence in fairy tales, iii., 53; in 

 heraldry, iii., 67; artificial hatching 

 of, in United States, v., 14; sturgeon 

 fishery of United States, value of, v., 

 27 ; plentiful in Ontario, v., 148 ; 

 quantity produced in the lake fish- 

 eries of America, v., 149; instance 

 of its capture off Erith, vii., 61 



Styan, Captain A., the part taken by 

 him in the founding of the Maiden- 

 head, Cookham, and Bray Angling 

 Association, iii., 117 



Submarine vegetation, Strabo's tale of, 

 iii., 12 



Suckers, (Flatheaded), description of, 

 i., 132 



Sucking-fish, or remora, vi., 278 ; viii., 

 320; its anatomy, i., ill; ancient 

 superstitions respecting it, iii., 25; 

 use in heraldry ; iii., 71 ; supposed 

 affinity to the lamprey, iii., 90 



Suet, use of, in diet, vii., II, 13 



Suffolk fisheries, regulated by special 

 Board of Conservators, i., 223 



Sugar refineries, pollution of rivers by, 

 and proposed remedy, iv.j 274 



Sumburgh Roost, ix., 64 



Summary Jurisdiction Acts, i., 233 



Sun, destruction by, of young fish left 

 in pools by receding tide, iv., 95 



Sunfish, body covered by dentiform 

 scales, ii., 159; skin of head much 



thickened, ii., 184 ; reverence for, in 

 Tongan and Fiji Islands, iii., 80 ; 

 plentiful in Ontario, v., 148 ; taken 

 in Firth of Forth, vi., 262 ; much 

 infested by parasites, vi., 262; its 

 parasites eaten by other fish, vi., 278 



Sunderland, fisheries carried on there, 

 viii., 334 ; vessels employed, viii., 

 334; payment of crews, viii., 334 



Sunderland, North, harbour extension 

 much needed, ix., 7; fisheries at 

 present carried on there, ix., 8 ; its 

 favourable position as a fishing centre, 

 ix., 8 ; proposed plan for providing 

 funds for improvements by means of 

 Government loan, ix., 10 



Superior, Lake, salmon prevented by 

 the falls of Niagara from reaching 

 it, vi., 65 



Superstitions, Fishes of Fancy, iii., 79 



Superstitions of fisher folk, ii., 195, 

 198 ; Irish, ii., 252 ; of France, Hol- 

 land and Belgium, ii., 261 



Surf, increased by tides, ix., 66, 67 



Sur-mullet, its anatomy, i., 88 ; valued 

 in ancient times, i., 414 ; anatomical 

 details, viii., 61 ; habits, viii., 62 ; 

 means of capture, viii., 63 ; feeding 

 and habitat, viii., 64. See also 

 Mullets. 



Surr, Mr., remarks on river pollution, 

 vii., 60 



Sutherland, Duke of, is himself a dis- 

 trict fishery board for several rivers, 

 i., 235 ; his investigations as to river 

 temperatures , vi., 157 



Suyeen, the fry of the coal-fish, viii., 



154 



Svealand fisheries, extent and value of, 

 v., 269 



Swainson, Mr., opinion that there is a 

 marine animal uniting form of a fish 

 with that of a man, iii., 224 



Swamp cypress, an American tree suit- 

 able for planting by watercourses, 

 vii., 274 



Swans, damage done by them to spawn, 

 vi., 226, 228 



Swansea, oyster beds under local regu- 

 lation, iv., IOO; fisheries unimpor- 

 tant, viii., 339 ; one of the principal 



