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INDEX. 



Fishing trade, recent changes in 



the, 4, 6 

 Fishing-boats, classes of, 13, 19 



, cost of, 15 



, Irish, 13 



, increase of number, 15 



, increase of size of, 13, 15 



, table of tonnage of, 18 



Fleetwood trawling station, 21 

 Flounders, trim-net for catching, 



97 



Fluctuations of coast fisheries, 3 

 Frazerburgh, herring fishery at, 



161 



Froude's mention of Brixham 

 trawlers in the time of Eliza- 

 beth, 120 



G. 



GALWAY hookers, 202 



trawling station, 22 



Great Silver Pit trawling 

 ground, 43, 44 



Grimsby trawling station, 21, 147 



cod-chests, 82 



, docks for smacks at, 149 



, number of boats, 148 



, statistics of fish at, 149 



Ground-fish, 37 



rope, 27, 38 



scan, convenient for ama- 

 teurs, 92 



suitable for trawling, 38 



H. 



HADDOCK curing, 159 



fishery, 159 



' season, 159 



spawning of, 47, 155 



Hake caught by trammel-nets. 



102 



, fishing for, 40, 199 



, spawning of, 47 



Hand-line, description of, 80 



fishing for cod, 81 



Harwich fishery, rise and decline 



of the, 134, 135 



cod-chests, 136 



, number of smacks, 134, 



135 

 Hauling-in drift-nets, 60 



long-lines, 74 



the trawl, 40 



Hebrides fisheries, 176 

 Herring boats, cost of, 115 



fishery at Brixham, 124 



Isle of Man, 186 



Irish coast, 195 



Lowestoft, 137 



in Scotland, fluctua- 

 tions of, 3 



, seasons for, at Lowes- 

 toft, 138 

 in the Channel, 



65 

 on the English 



coast, 64, 65 

 on the Irish 



coast, 67 

 on the Scotch 



coast, 64, 65, 66, 158 

 at Stornoway, 



176 

 at Yarmouth, 



139 



at Wick, 170 



Herrings, close-time Act, 178 



bad effects of, 



179 



