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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



Turtles, belong to the "Amphibia," 

 ii., 172; the waters frequented by 

 them, ii., 173 ; are fish consumers, 

 ii., 495; primitive belief concerning 

 them, iii. , 10 ; ancient superstitions, 

 iii., 18; their place in mythology, 

 iii., 23; in Hindoo tradition, iii., 

 24 ; in Aryan science, iii., 49 ; use 

 as totems, iii., 51 ; occurrence in 

 fairy lore, iii., 54-57 ; statistics of 

 the United States fishery, v., 26, 27 ; 

 .exported from the Bahamas, v., 369 ; 

 suggestions for drying the flesh for 

 purposes of exportation, v., 385, 386; 

 their abundance and mode of cap- 

 turing them, v., 468 



Twait or Shad, a migratory fish, i., 40 ; 

 a member of the herring family, i., 

 172 ; use as food, i., 424 ; viii., 309 ; 

 general description, viii. , 307 ; habits, 

 viii., 308; means of capture, viii., 

 308 ; baits, viii., 308 ; breeding, viii., 

 308 ; habitat, viii. 309 ; size attained 

 by it, viii., 309 



Tweed river, is subject to special regu- 

 lations, i., 236 ; yields good sport to 

 fishers, ii., 364; fish disease there, 

 vi., 4; its yield of salmon, vi., 8; 

 Mr. List's experiment in subjecting 

 diseased salmon to action of sea- 

 water, vi., 15 ; effect of disease on 

 yield of salmon, vi., 27; the bull 

 trout exterminated in this river, vi., 

 43 ; the kinds of salmon found there, 

 vi., 150 ; many fish die in spawning, 

 vi., 156; diseased and dead fish, 

 numbers of, found therein, vi., 156, 

 163 ; the Tweed Fishery Act not 

 sufficiently stringent, vi., 160 ; diffi- 

 culty of repressing poaching, vi., 

 162 ; revenue of the Tweed Fishery 

 Commissioners, vi., 162 ; constitution 

 of the Commission, vi., 163; man- 

 agement of the river, vi., 163; sub- 

 ject to special legislation as to salmon 

 fishery, viii., 539 ; Act of 1857, viii., 

 539; Act of 1859, viii., 540; limits 

 of mouth of river extended, viii., 540 ; 

 close time, viii., 541 ; fixed nets, 

 viii., 542; mill dams, &c., viii. 543; 

 pollutions, viii., 544; poaching, viii., 



545 ; miscellaneous suggestions, viii., 

 547, 549 ; outbreaks of salmon disease 

 in this river in 1879-80, xi., 60 ; in 

 1881-82, xi., 6 1 ; and subsequently, 

 xi., 62; suggestion that rod fishing 

 without close time should be allowed 

 as a means of extirpating the disease, 

 xi., 62 ; chemical impurities in this 

 river, xi., 72 ; its pollution by woollen 

 manufactories, xi., 73 



Tweed salmon reports, vi., 152 



Tweeddale, Marquess of, deep sea 

 thermometers provided by him for 

 testing the temperature of the sea, i., 

 280 



Tyndall, Professor, his experiments 

 respecting putrefaction, vii., 220 



Tyne River, annual yield of its fishery, 

 ii., 348; absence of salmon disease, 

 vi., 5 ; its board of fishery con- 

 servators, vi., 155; its pollution by 

 chemical refuse injurious to the 

 fisheries, xi., 311 



Tyre, its commercial importance, iv., $ 



Uddevalla, a fishing port of Norway, 

 iv., 200 



Ullapool, fishing port of, iv., 200 



Umbrina, scarcely to be considered a 

 British species, i., 121 



Unclean fish, often infested with para- 

 sites, vii., 31 



Undersized fish, used as manure, iv., 

 329; sale prohibited by Act of 1877, 

 vi., 372 



Unger, his observations on epidemic 

 among carp, vi., 14 



Uniform railway rates for carriage of 

 fish desirable, iv., 134 



United Kingdom, number of net fisher- 

 men engaged in salmon fisheries, ii., 

 215 ; number of anglers for salmon, 

 ii., 285, 286 ; number of persons 

 taking out licences for salmon fish- 

 ing, ii., 285 ; value of salmon 

 fisheries, ii., 287 



United London Anglers Fisheries Asso- 

 ciation, its objects, iii., 169 ; vi., 21 1 ; 



