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INDEX. 



L. 



u LAST " of herrings, 141 

 Length of fleet of herring-nets, 55 



-> of mackerel-nets, 61 



Leigh, shrimpers at, 130 



Line-fishing, 71 



, two principal methods of ? 



71,84 



, boats for, 84 



at Brixham, 123 



on Cornish coast, 116 



at Grimsby, 71 



at Harwich, 135 



at Newhaven, 159 



, season for, 80 



at the Shetlands, 172 



in Wales, 107 



Ling, dried, 171, 173, 174, 178 

 " Live cod," 84 

 Liverpool trawling station, 21 

 Lobster fisheries at the Hebrides, 



178 



on Norfolk coast, 146 

 on Northumberland 



coast, 156 



at the Orkneys, 171 



on YoAshire coast, 154 



Lochfyne herring fisheries, 180 



, description of, 182 



, " trawling " in, 183 



London fishing-boats, 127, 129 

 Long-lining, 178, 194, 198 

 Long-lines, description of, 72 

 , buoy or " dan" to long-line, 



73 



for cod, 74, 135, 160 



for haddock, 159 



, method of use, 73 



, names for, 71 



, number of hooks on, 72 



Looking for fish, 111 



Loss of trawl-smacks in North 

 Sea, 43 



Lowestoft fisheries, 137 



, official return of boats at, 



137 



, three fisheries yearly, 137 



trawling station, 21 



herring fisheries, 137 



Lug-rig common in Scotch fish- 

 ing-boats, 168 



Luminous water disadvantageous 

 in fishing, 63 



MACKEREL fishing in Cornwall, 



108, 115 



in Devonshire, 124 



on the south coast, 124 



- at Lowestoft, 137 



at Yarmouth, 144 



by drift-nets, 61, 67, 



68 

 season on the English 



coast, 68, 115 

 on the Irish 



coast, 68, 198 

 on the Scotch 



coast, 68 

 on the Manx 



coast, 69 

 by ground-seans off 



Brighton and Portland, 92 

 , kettle. nets for catching, 



98 



, a * hundred " of, 141 



, spawning of, 47, 68 



Malm's observations on spawn- 

 ing, 47 



