INDEX. 



211 



Sean- or seine-nets, description 

 of, 88 



, great antiquity of, 88 



, ground or foot, 91, 92 



, meshes used in, 92 



, method of working, 89, 90 



, size, regulations as to, 110 



, tuck, 90 



, various kinds used here, 



88 



Set- or trammel-nets, 100 

 Sherringham crab fishery, 146 

 Shetland fisheries, 170, 172 



smacks, 174 



yawls or "haaf boats," 



175 



Shrimp fishery, 105, 107, 130, 

 147, 152 



, boats for, 132 



boats, rig of, 132 



net, 130 



season, 132 



" Smacks," or trawl-boats, 23 

 Smelts, trim-net for catching, 97 

 Solent, fishing in the, 124 

 Soles, 194 



Spawning habits of sea fish, 46 

 Spiller (see Long- line) 

 Spilliard (see Long-line) 

 Sprats, drift-fishing for, 70 

 , bag-nets on weirs for catch- 

 ing, 97 



for manure, 97 



seaning, 124 



, stow-net for catching, 93 



, trade in, 96 



Sprawl-wire, 80, 81 

 Start Bay, crab fishery at, 119 

 Steamers carrying fish, 130, 145, 

 199 



Steam-power applied to fishing 

 boats, experiments and diffi- 

 culties, 162, 163 



" Stow-boating," 96, 134, 147 



Stow-net, description of, 93 



, meshes of, 94 



, parts of, 93 



, working of, 94 



fishing, 94 



in the Solent, 93, 124 



in the Thames, 93, 



127 



in the Wash, 93 



Supply of fish difficult to ascer- 

 tain, 6 



*' Swills," or Yarmouth fish- 

 baskets, 140 



Swinden on the origin of Yar- 

 mouth, 139 . 



T. 



Table of tonnage of fishing-boats, 



18 

 Tenby, fisheries at, 106 



trawling station, 22, 106 



Thames, fisheries in the, 127 

 Trammel- or set-nets, 100, 102 



, action of, 101 



, different kinds of, 100 



, meshes of, 101 



, origin of name, 100 



or " tumbling-net," 102 



used at Guernsey, 102 



Trawl-boats, present and former, 



cost of, 15, 32, 121 



, fit-out of, 32 



, " ketch-rigged," 32 



, number of seagoing, 46 



, rigging of, 13, 17, 31 



Trawlers, Plymouth, 117 



