INDEX 



" A " areas. North Sea, 36-37 

 Aberdeen, Amalgamated Engineers Ex- 

 amination Board, 217 



— fishery statistics, 35, 37 



— market statistics, 62-65, 67, 90-92, 

 147-148 



— weight of fish landed, 7 

 Academy, Royal Irish, 223 

 Acts of Parliament (in order of date) — 



1357-60. Statues of Herring, 128 



1610. Regulation of Manx Herring 

 Fisheries, 129 



1 705 . Bounty on Export of Herrings, 

 ii4n. 



1 718. Bounty on Export of Fish, 

 114, 115 



1750. Establishing Bounty for Her- 

 ring Busses, 114, 116 



1753. Amending the above (26 Geo. 

 11), 115 



1756. Amending the above (29 Geo. 



II). 115 



1757. Act varying Bounties on Her- 



ring, IIS 



1 77 1. Act varying Bounties on Her- 

 ring, 115 



1787. Act varying Bounties on Her- 

 ring, 115, 116 



1808. Encouragement of the British 

 White Herring Fishery, 48, 

 124-125, 163 



1815. Encouragement of the British 

 White Herring Fishery, 48 



1819. To encourage Irish Fisheries, 

 184 



1843. Sea Fisheries Act, 161 



1868. Sea Fisheries Act, 161 



1875. Pubhc Health Act, 207 



1876. Rivers Pollution (Prevention) 

 Act, 208 



1877. Fisheries (Oysters, Crabs and 

 Lobsters) Act, 198 



1883. Sea Fisheries Act, 53 



1885. Sea Fisheries (Scotland) 

 Amendment Act, 150 



1886. Crofters Holdings (Scotland) 

 Act, 192 



1887. Pubhc Works (Loan) Act, 



192 



1888. Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 



174, 180, 209 



1888. Local Government Act, 174 



1889. Herring Fishery (Scotland) 

 Act, 164 



1 89 1. Congested Districts Board (Ire- 

 land) Act, 186 



U 289 



1 89 1. Purchase of Land (Ireland) 



Act, 186 

 1 89 1. Sea Fisheries Regulation Act, 



209 

 1894. Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act, 



203, 209 



1894. Merchant Shipping Act, 216, 

 2i8n. 



1895. Sea Fisheries Regulation (Scot- 

 land) Act, xxi, 170 



1899. Agriculture and Technical In- 

 struction (Ireland) Act, 186 



1 903 . Board of Agriculture and Fish- 

 eries Act, 1740. 



1906. Merchant Sliipping Act, 216 



1907. PubHc Health (Regulations as 

 to Food) Act, 210 



1909. Trawhng in Prohibited Areas 

 Prevention Act, 165, 166 



1909. Development and Road Im- 

 provement Funds Act, 246 



1912. Sea Fisheries Conway Pro- 

 visional Order Act, 2i2n. 



191 3. Herring Fishery (Branding) 

 Act (England and Wales), 48 



1915. Sea Fisheries Cardigan Bay 

 Provisional Order Act, 2i2n. 

 Adam Smith, 114, ii8, 123, 282 

 Administration of Sea Fisheries, England 



and Wales, i ; Foreign Countries, 



250-272 ; Ireland, i ; Scotland, i 

 Admiralty, xvii, 112 

 Adventurers in the White Herring 



Fishery, 120 

 Age-determination of fish, 60-6 1 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, Board of (see 



under " Board ") 

 Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 



Ireland, Dept. of, i, 166, 186-187, 223 

 Aissaugue, 16 

 Albatross, U.S. investigation steamer, 



256-7 

 Alcyonidium gelatinosum, 37 

 Alexander III, 133 

 Algeria, 283 



Allecum salsorum de Scone, 1 34 

 Allman, 97 



Alosa sapidissima, 252 

 Am«land, 38 

 America, British North, 269-271, 283 



— export of herring to, 141 



— South, 272 



— United States of, 250-260, 283 

 American Shad, 83, 252 

 Amrum Bank, 37-38 

 Anadromous fish, 82, 83, 252 



