INDEX 



229 



Sea — continued : 



Depths, Records of Captain 

 Durham in the South 

 Atlantic, 22 

 of the Challenger and 



Gazelle, 22 

 of the Tuscarora East 

 of Japan, 23 

 Reduction and diminution 

 in size of the respiratory 

 organs in animals from 

 the, 40 

 Replacement of visual 

 organs by tentacles or 

 feelers by the inhabitants 

 of the, 34 

 Sagitta in the, 25 

 Salinity of the, 17 

 Scenery of the, 31 

 Spines of animals from 



the, 39 

 Sponges in the, 28 

 Stillness in the, 28, 29 

 Symmetry of animsils in 



the, 29 

 Temperature of the, 17, 18, 

 26, 27 

 in the Mediterranean 

 Sea made by the 

 Washington, 27 

 in the Sargasso Sea 

 made by the ' Plank- 

 ton ' Expedition, 27 

 near the Sulu Islands, 



27 

 on the westerly side of 



Sumatra, 27 

 Transparency of sea- 

 water, 18 

 Uniformity of physical 

 conditions in the, 26 

 Fisheries Act, 1868, 47 



America, American Com- 

 mission, 66 

 Fish-breeding institu- 

 tion, 67 

 Beam-trawls used in steam- 

 trawlers until 1893, 47 

 Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, Central Staff, 

 68 

 Bounty system Objections 



to the, 46 

 British, Extent of, 43 

 Statistics of, 42 

 Value of the industry 

 to the inhabitants, 

 42 

 Bye-laws, 69 



Sea — continued : 



Fisheries, Carriers, Employ- 

 ment of, 47 

 Causes of impoverishment, 

 56 

 ' Accumulated stock ' 

 has been fished out, 

 56, 59 

 consumption of the 

 plaice's food by 

 small haddocks, 57 

 Dab has usurped the 

 position of the plaice 

 on the Dogger Bank, 



57 

 destruction of young 



fish, 58, 59 

 limited area for fish 

 in a limited volume 

 of water, 57 

 Christiania Conference, 



1901, 55 

 Commissions of, 45 

 Dabs, Increase of, due to 

 their spawning in pro- 

 tected waters, 51, 52 

 Denmark, Development of 

 the local fishery on the 

 west coast of Denmark, 

 64 

 Determination of the age 



of fish, 61 

 Diminution offish recorded 

 by the Trawling 

 Commission of 1885, 

 50 

 of fish-supply being 

 caused by the trawl 

 disproved, 51 

 Distinction between 

 ' small ' and ' large ' 

 fish, 58 

 Dogger Bank, 57, 60 

 Eggs, Number of, in 



various fish, 49 

 English fishing aiuthorities, 



45 



Experimental Investiga- 

 tions, 56 



Experiments with marked 

 fish, 52, 60, 61 

 with marked plaice, 60 



Firth of Forth and St. 

 Andrews Bay, Closure 

 of, 51 



Fish-breeding experiments , 

 69 



Fishmongers' Company, 

 Seizure of small fish, 58 



