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FISHERIES EXHIBITION LITERATURE. 



waves, ix., 70; "send" of waves, 

 ix., no 



Wax, made in Japan from intestines of 

 fish, v., 201 



Wear, (the) statistics of salmon fishings 

 in former times (1348-1532), ii., 284 ; 

 salmon disease has not manifested 

 itself there, vi., 5 



Weather prognostics from fish, in., 89 



Webb, Mr., his testimony as to value 

 of manure produced by Aylesbury 

 Native Guano Company, vii., 61 



Weddell, Captain, statement as to a 

 mermaid having been seen by one of 

 his crew, iii., 214 



Weekly close time, or " Saturday's 

 slap," a regulation of the Scotch 

 salmon fisheries, ii., 311, 212 



Weeping willows, their suitability for 

 planting beside streams, vii., 274 



Weever, Greater, names given to this 

 fish, viii., 80; x., 121 ; anatomical 

 details, viii., 80; x., 117-118; habits, 

 viii., 81 ; x., 118, 119; spawning, 

 viii., 81 ; x., 119; modes of capture, 

 viii., 8 1 ; x., 120 ; value as food, 

 viii., 8l ; x., 120; geographical dis- 

 tribution, viii., 82; x., 118 ; size 

 attained by it, viii., 82; x., 120; 

 its ability to inflict poisonous wounds, 

 x., 119; food, x., 119; commercial 

 value, x., 1 20; behaviour in con- 

 finement, x., 120 ; general descrip- 

 tion, x., 121 



Weever, Lesser, viii., 82 ; x., 121 



Weevers, general description, i., 107; 

 viii., 79-83; x., 117-122; wounds 

 inflicted by them very poisonous, i., 

 107 ; viii., 79 ; x., 119 ; size attained 

 by, and names given to them, i., 108 ; 

 distortion of visceral organs, ii., 147 



Weights for sinking nets and lines, 

 substances employed, xiii., 5, 6 



Weirs, their abolition by Magna Charta, 

 i., 212; ii., 308; ix., 146; and by 

 subsequent statutes, i., 212 ; Acts 

 of Parliament for their suppression, 

 &c., i., 212-226 ; a weir defined, 

 i., 216 ; ix., 233 ; mill-weirs, i., 

 217 ; laws regulating the use 

 of weirs, i., 217-220 ; ix., 148, 



r49 ; powers conferred upon conser- 

 vators of Salmon fisheries for the 

 acquisition and removal of weirs, i., 

 220, 233, special commissioners ap- 

 pointed for enquiring into legality of 

 fishing weirs, i., 221 ; mode of con- 

 struction of weirs, i., 318; exam- 

 ples of advantages derived from their 

 removal, ii., 321-324 ; evils of 

 use of, ii., 321-324 ; extent to 

 which their use is at present re- 

 stricted, ii., 325-327 ; instance of 

 construction of passes or fish 

 ladders over weirs, ii., 329, 334; 

 other methods of passing fish over 

 dams, ii. , 334 ; opposition to their 

 use brought to a close at the time of 

 the construction of canals, iv., 216 ; 

 used for the capture of fish from 

 an early period, viii., 3 ; kettle- 

 nets, so called, viii., 44 ; their con- 

 struction for the improvement of na- 

 vigation, ix., 150 



Welfare, Mr. (Worthing), remarks by 

 him at Practical Fishermen's Con- 

 gress, iv., 337, 338, 340 



Welland river, well stocked with fish, 

 iii., 157 



Wells (Norfolk), a source of supply of 

 whelks, vi., 303; need of improved 

 harbour accommodation, ix., 5 



Wells Bank, a North Sea trawling- 

 ground, ii., 234; vii., 317 



Welsh fisheries, altogether insignificant, 



i., SI 



Wener Lake fishery, its value, v., 265, 

 266 



West Africa, affinity between the In- 

 dian and African species of fish 

 fauna, v., 424, 425 ; literature refer- 

 ring to its fish fauna, v., 424, 425 ; 

 importance of the freshwater fish 

 industry, v., 430, 431 ; names of 

 fishes frequenting its shores, v. , 430 ; 

 worship of ponds of fish, and of cer- 

 tain rivers, v. , 442 ; modes of fishing 

 adopted, v., 443-450; diseases most 

 prevalent among the natives, v., 

 455-459 ; fishing towns and villages, 

 v. , 468 ; means available for a large 

 fishing industry, v. , 483-486 ; list of 



