ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



memoirs dealing specially with the 

 crustacean fauna of the West Coast, 

 v., 494, 495 



West African Settlements, their ex- 

 tent, v., 432, 433 



West coast of England, appearance of 

 salmon disease, vi., 5 



West Indies, import cured cod fish, v., 

 131; also herring, v., 136; and 

 mackerel, v., 139 



West London Angling Club, iii., 17$ 



Westbourne Park Piscatorial Society, 



i"., 175 



Westminster Fish Market, its creation 

 by Act of Parliament, ix., 163; 

 attempt to establish a market proves 

 abortive, ix., 164 



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

 266 



Weymouth, fishing district of, number 

 of men and boats employed, iv., 42 ; 

 loss of life and other casualties, iv., 

 42, 43, 44 ; catch of fish as compared 

 with loss of life, iv., 47; general 

 statistics of the fishery, iv., 52 



Whale barnacle, iii., 309-311 



Whale fishery, weapons used therein, 

 i., 324 ; Code of Laws regulating 

 Aberdeen fishery, iv., 112; earnings 

 of crews, iv., 167, 178; centres of 

 the fishery, in the United States, v. , 

 20; value of the whale fishery of 

 that country, v., 26, 35; xiii., 73; 

 the fishery in Japanese waters, v., 

 200 ; Canary Islands much resorted 

 to by whalers, v., 475 ; whales often 

 captured in the vicinity, v., 475 ; the 

 whale fishery, of the Sandwich 

 Islands, xiii., 74 ; possibility of ex- 

 hausting the fishery, xiii., 136; ex- 

 ceptions to this rule, xiii., 138 



Whale fishery of the Netherlands. See 

 Dutch Sea Fisheries. 



Whalebone, quantity obtained in the 

 United States whale fishery, v., 35 



Whales, those caught in British waters 

 the property of the Crown, i., 

 207; their anatomy ii., 181, 184, 

 185 ; value of their flesh as food, ii., 

 183 ; uses to which other parts of 

 their bodies are put, ii., 184; their 



destruction by dog fish, iii., 13; 

 supposed emission of scent from their 

 mouths, iii., 14; fable as to the 

 guiding of the whale by the " mus- 

 culus," iii., 27, 71 ; popular beliefs 

 in early times as to method of captur- 

 ing whales, iii., 29 ; their flesh eaten 

 as fish on fast days, iii., 42 ; classed 

 as "royal fish," iii., 46; ix., 286; 

 their occurrence in fable, iii., 56, 8l ; 

 in heraldry, iii., 72; held in reve- 

 rence by natives of the South Sea 

 Islands, iii., 80 ; folklore respecting 

 them, iii., 89 ; "spouting" of, iii., 

 250-263 ; fishes attendant upon them, 

 vi., 278 ; diminution in their num- 

 bers within recent times, vii., 247; 

 their protection possibly a fit subject 

 for legislation, ix., 208 



Whales, Ziphioid, skeletons of, iv., 408 



Whaling ships. See Fishing vessels. 



Wharfe, river, a portion preserved for 

 angling, iii., 154 



Whaup-fish, another name for the gar- 

 pike, viii., 236 



Wheeldon, J. P., his papers on " Ang- 

 ling Clubs, &c., of London and the 

 Provinces," iii., 99-177; and "Prac- 

 tical Lessons in the Gentle Craft, iii., 

 441-525 ; remarks by him at Con- 

 ference on coarse fish culture, vi. , 227 



Whelks, large quantities captured, i., 

 48 ; much eaten by the poorer classes 

 in London, i., 62; vi., 304; their 

 use as bait for cod-fish ii., 239, 245 ; 

 vi., 304; their use in heraldry, iii. 

 75 ; destruction and waste of whelks 

 by fishermen, iv., 350; feed largely 

 on seaweed, vi., 49 ; eaten by crusta- 

 ceans, vi., 285 ; how caught, vi., 303 ; 

 xi., 417, 480; sources of supply, vi., 

 303 ; xi., 424, 480; quantity caught, 

 vi., 304; vessels engaged in this 

 fishery, vi., 304 ; their value as food, 

 vi., 304 ; xi., 418, 423 ; proposed 

 legislation for their protection, vi., 

 304 ; used as food in some parts of 

 Scotland, vi., 310 ; abundant in 

 America, vi., 320; used as bait for 

 fish generally vi., 321 ; injury caused 

 by this fish on oyster beds, xi., 296 



