ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



169 



suggestion as to a mode by which the 

 Association might obtain coarse fish 

 for breeding purposes, vi., 217 



United Service Institute, Transactions, 

 allusions to amount of boat accom- 

 modation on passenger ships, vii., 

 202 



United States, common law of, as to 

 fishing rights of riparian owners, i., 

 210 ; right of British subjects to fish 

 on east coast, north of 39th parallel 

 of latitude, i., 245 ; fish culture in, 

 ii., 7; vi., 173 ; angling, its condition 

 and prospects, ii., 362 ; aid given 

 by zoologists in developing the fish 

 industry, iv., 411 ; formation of sea- 

 side laboratories, iv., 424; fisheries, 

 their present development, v., 18 ; 

 distribution of German carp in 

 inland waters, v., 71 ; vii., 82, no; 

 salmon disease does not prevail gene- 

 rally, vi., 25 ; annexe at International 

 Fisheries Exhibition, example of uti- 

 lization of waste products, vii., 79 ; its 

 fishery map, vii., 80 ; grants by Con- 

 gress towards the development of 

 the fisheries, vii., 82 ; steam vessel 

 as floating station for hatching shad, 

 &c., vii., 82; quantity of fish annu- 

 ally consumed there, vii., 97 ; me- 

 thod of stocking inland waters, vii., 

 101 ; method of signalling expected 

 storms, vii., 182 ; fish hatcheries, vii., 

 256 ; societies for the protection of 

 fish fry, vii., 257; progress of pisci- 

 culture in that country, xi., 5 ; the 

 sponge fishery on the Florida coast, 

 xiii., 37 ; value of the fisheries gene- 

 rally, xiii., 64, 109 ; importance of the 

 oyster fishery, xiii., 65 ; apprehensions 

 entertained of the eventual exhaustion 

 of this fishery, xiii. , 66 ; the cod fishery, 

 xiii., 66; mode of capture, xiii., 66; 

 value of the cod-fishery, xiii., 67 ; 

 modes of cure, xiii., 68, 69; utilisation 

 of waste products, xiii., 68 ; thesalmon 

 fishery, xiii., 69 ; its value, xiii., 69; 

 where carried on, xiii., 69 ; extent of 

 the trade in canned salmon, xiii., 70 ; 

 fish-hatching, xiii., 70-73 ; the whale- 

 fishery, xiii., 73 ; the decrease in this 



fishery largely due to the introduction 

 of substitutes for whale oil, xiii., 74 ; 

 value of the fishery, xiii., 75 ; fishery 

 for menhaden, xiii., 75 ; mode of 

 capture by means of the purse-seine, 

 xiii., 76 ; mode of dealing with the 

 fish caught, xiii., 76 ; the seal fishery, 

 xiii., 77 ; the mackerel fishery, xiii., 

 78 ; other fisheries, xiii., 79 ; princi- 

 pal modes of fishing adopted, xiii., 

 1 14 ; condensed report on the fishing 

 industries of this country, xiii., 405- 

 410 



United States Fish Commission, causes 

 of its establishment, iv., 7 ; v., 53, 

 54> 59 > testimony by Prof. Huxley, 

 as to the value of its labours, iv., 9 ; 

 date of establishment, v. 13 ; duties of 

 commissioner, v., 52 ; improvement 

 effected by the Commission in the 

 fisheries, v., 53 ; routine of opera- 

 tions and results accomplished, v., 

 56-58 ; introduction by the Commis- 

 sion of German carp into the United 

 States, v., 71 ; vii., 82, no 



Universal Angling Society, iii., 164 



Universal law for fishing, suggested 

 expediency of, iv., 327 



Upper Exe Fishing Association, iii., 

 162 



Ure, river, appearance of salmon disease 

 there, vi., 5 



Urinary bladder in fish, viii., 18 



Uruguay. See Banda Oriental. 



Usk, river, sport afforded to anglers for 

 salmon, ii., 287 ; salmon fisheries 

 injuriously affected by mill dams, ii, 

 322; steps adopted to remedy this, 

 ii., 323; appearance of salmon disease 

 there, vi., 5 



Ustilago, investigations of Brefeld as to 

 vi., 17 



Vaagmaer, or deal-fish, i., 140 

 Val," a trade term in Sweden for a 

 batch of 80 fish, v., 260 



Valencia, Gulf of, red mullet fisheries 

 here, vii., 251 



