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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



1 08; limits of its preserves, iii., 108; 

 its relations with the Thames Con- 

 servancy Board, iii., no; its powers, 

 iii., 115; its action against poachers, 

 iii., 118, 119; its origin, iii., 121 



Thames Conservancy, its powers, i., 

 209; vii., no; duties, vii., 51; 

 efforts to suppress poaching, vii., 

 118-119 



Thames mission, its influence for good, 

 vii., 323 



Thames river, its fisheries regulated by 

 conservators, i., 209 ; close times, i., 

 234; its shrimp netting industry, i., 

 293 ; its condition in the year 1593, i., 

 418 ; salmon formerly found there 

 in abundance, ii. , 303 ; its relation to 

 the London sewage question, ii., 

 338-345 ; angling for trout there, 

 ii., 367, 401; for dace, ii., 368; is 

 an " open " river, ii., 372 ; fly fishing 

 for chub, ii. , 408 ; its stock of fish 

 improved by the Thames Angling 

 Preservation Society, ii., 408; fly 

 fishing for dace, ii., 424; its aspect 

 fifty years ago, iii. , 102, 103; locality 

 of fish preserves, iii., 108 ; bye-laws 

 as to snatching and night-lining, iii., 

 115-119; spawning in its estuary, 

 i y '> 349> trawling there, iv., 350; 

 suitability of the Salmo Sebago for 

 this river, vi., 50; its oyster beds 

 improved by disturbance, v., 100, 

 101 ; oyster spat might be collected 

 at its mouth, v., 107; absence of 

 salmon at the present day, vi., 154, 

 155 ; ix., 169 ; removal of pol- 

 lution might cause them to return, 

 vi., 179 ; pollution of the waters by 

 sewage, vii., 51; xi., 76; causing 

 scarcity of fish, vii., 55; xi., 312; 

 and their death, vii., 58; purity of 

 the river in former times, vii. , 60 ; 

 special enactments relative to its 

 fisheries, the origin of the powers of 

 the Thames Conservators, ix., 150 



Thames Valley Board, their attitude 

 towards chemical treatment in deal- 

 ing with river pollution, vii., 64 



Thickback, a member of the sole 

 family, viii., 232 ; anatomical details, 



viii. , 233 ; habits, viii. , 233 ; means of 

 capture, viii., 233 ; use as food, viii., 

 233 ; habitat, viii., 233 ; size attained 

 by it, viii., 234 



Thiersant, M. Dabry de, his work upon 

 Chinese fisheries, i., 534 



Thirle pole, a round or "lump" fish, 

 i., 402 



Thompson, Sir Henry, paper read by 

 him upon " Fish as food," vii., 1-29 



Thompson, W., an observer of the 

 food of fishes, vi., 268; contents of 

 a sturgeon's stomach, analysed by 

 him, vi., 278 



Thornback, nature of its spines, ii., 

 163 ; value as food, vii., 21 ; viii., 

 320 ; its names and general descrip- 

 tion, viii., 319; habits, viii., 320; 

 means of capture, viii. , 320 ; quality 

 of flesh, x., 414 



Thornback Ray, its mode of locomotion, 

 i., 194; general description, i., 195 ; 

 value as food, i., 428 



Thornham, on the east coast, whelk 

 fishery there, vi., 303 



" Thorough " vase, for the rearing of 

 salmonidae, ii., 54 



" Three-mile limit," International juris- 

 diction required to alter it, iv., 308; 

 recommendation concerning it, iv., 



351 



Thresher, or Fox shark, general de- 

 scription, i., 1 88 



Throstlenest Weir, pollution of water 

 there, iv., 257 



Thunder-fish, or European Loach, occa- 

 sionally imported into England, i., 

 202 



Thunderstorms, their effect on fishing, 

 i., 281 



Thysanopoda Couchii, a small crusta- 

 cean, food for mackerel, vi., 281 



Tibrie, a local name for the coal fish, 

 viii., 154 



Tidal rivers, fishing in them classed 

 with freshwater fishing, i., 207 



Tides (the), their effect in increasing 

 surf, ix., 66, 67 



Tile (the), a valuable fish recently dis- 

 covered by the Americans, xi., 547 



Tiles for collecting oyster spat, v., 89 



