INDEX. 



A. 



ABERDEEN herring fishery, 162 



, steam-tugs at, 162 



Action of the trawl, 37 



Act relating to Cornish pilchard 



fishery, 109 

 Advantages of storing live cod, 



74 



of decked boats, 168 



Anstruther, harbour works at, 



160 

 Approach to land of spawning 



and fat herrings, 48 

 , after spawning, of 



mackerel, 68 

 of pilchards after 



spawning, 109 

 Arbitrary classification of boats, 



13 

 Ardglass, herring fishery at, 



195 



a 



BAG-NETS for shrimps, 107 



for catching sprats, 97 

 Bait for cod, 78 

 Ballantrae, spawning ground of 



herrings, 183 



Ballycottin Bay fisheries, 199 

 Bantry Bay, fisheries in, 200 

 Barking supposed to have been 



the first to begin deep-sea 



trawling, 119 



Barking trawling station, 21, 119 



trawl-head, 26 



Barnstaple Bay, fishery at, 108 

 Beam-trawl, construction of, 22 

 Beam - trawling little used in 



Scotland, 157 

 Berwick fisheries, 158 

 Bideibrd, fishing at, 108 

 Billingsgate, enlargement of, 8 



, supply of fish at, 129 



Bloaters, curing of, 142 

 Blowsers, 111 

 Boats for shrimping, 105 

 Branding fees, 167 



system, advantages of, 166 



, objections to, 166 



in 1859-75, 167 



Brighton, fisheries at, 126 



drift fishing, 125 



hog-boats, 125 



Bridgewater Bay, 107 



" British White Herring Cure," 



164 

 Brixham trawling station, 21, 



44, 119 



, oldest established, 



45, 120 



, customs of trawlers at> 



121 

 fishing ground long worked 



over, 121 

 fishermen in the time of 



Elizabeth, 120 

 at Kamsgate, 127 



