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INDEX. 



Plymouth trawling station, 21, 



44, 117 



trawlers, 117 



, fish sent from, 118 



u Prime " fish, 19, 41 

 Prime and offal fish, 45 

 Proportion of prime to offal fish, 



45 



R. 



RAILWAYS, effect of, on fish 

 trade, 4 

 Ramsgate trawling station, 21, 



126 



, number of boats, 127 



Rate of speed for trawling, 37 



Red mullet, 46 



caught at Guernsey, 



102 



Registration of fishing-boats, J3 

 Ring, fishery at, 199 

 Rockall bank fisheries, 175 

 "Round "fish, 38 

 Rye Bay trawling ground, 126 



s. 



ST. IVES, seaning at, 69, 89, 109 



, famous grounds at, 109 



Saithe, 172, 174 



Sardines, Cornish and French, 



116 

 Sars, Professor, discovery by, 



39, 47 

 Scarborough trawling station, 21 



, boats used at, 155 



Scotch fisheries, 157 



, trawl or sean, 20 



, various kinds, 157 



Fishery Board, report for 



1875, 52 



Scotch fishing-boats, change in, 

 16, 157 



, masts of, 17 



harbours, small, 157 



herrings cured, returns of, 



164 



, branding system, 166 



line fisheries, return of, 174 



mode of curing herrings, 



164 



trawling season, 184 



stations, 22 



Scotland, interference with 

 "trawling "in, 181, 182 



, return of Fishery Board 



for, 164 



, value of boats, nets, and 



lines, 185 



Serin ge-net, 91 



Sea fisheries, position of, 1 



, present condition of, 1 



Act, 1868, 13 



Sean, the, 20, 87 



Sean-fishing, 87, 89 



at St. Ives, 89, 109, 114 



in Cornwall, 89, 114 



Act of Parliament regu- 

 lating, 109 



, boats used for, 110, 115 



at Brighton, 92 



"huers," 111 



, Mount's bay, 1 14 



at Mousehole, 114 



at Newlyn, 114 



at Portland, 92 



in Scotch lochs, 91 



called " trawling " in Scot- 

 land, 91 



, season for, 109 



Sean- or seine-nets, 87 



