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THE SEA FISHERIES 



North ot Scotland, trawling grounds, 40, 

 46 



North Sea, areas, 36-39 



fisheries, 36-39 



haddock, 92-93 



migration of plaice in, 240-241 



plaice, 67, 68, 73, 78, 277, 279 



soles, 88, 277, 281 



steam trawlers, 68 



yield of fisheries, 40 



North Shields, weight of fish landed, 7 



Northumberland Sea Fisheries Com- 

 mittee, 182, 199, 2oon., 224 



Norway, fisheries of, 1 30-1 31 



Norwegian herring fisheries, 102 



— trawUng grounds, 34 



" Nurseries " for flat fish, 152, 193 

 Nymph Bank, 1 84 



Orkney and Shetland Isles, 30 

 Orkney, weight of fish landed, 7 

 Ostend privateers, 108 

 OtoUths as index of age, 60, 97n. 

 Otter boards, 19, 23 



— trawl, 19, 22-23 

 Outer Shoal, 39 

 Overday herrings, 49 

 Oysters, 160, 201, 259 



Panagiotopoulos, 263 



Panckoucke, viii 



Pandalus montagui, 195 



Parker, 259 



Parkgate soles, 87 



Pastures of the sea, 229 



Pauillac, 237 



Pelagic fish, 2, 94, 227 ; ova, 58, 222, 



233-234 

 Pennant, 94-95, 203n. 

 Pepys's Diary, io8n. 

 Peterhead, weight of fish landed, 7 

 Petersen, 56, 85 

 Petite Peche, 262 



Pettersen-Nansen water bottle, 226 

 Piel fish hatchery, 80, 83 

 Pier construction (Ireland), 185, 188 

 Pilchards, export of, 8 

 Pink shrimp, 195 

 Pizzetta, 262 

 Plaice, Aberdeen, 67 



— age-groups, 61 



— average price of, 274 



— bibliography, 285 



— Committee, 70-71 



— destruction by shrimpers, 196 



— development of, 59 



— eggs of, 57, 58, 234 



— Faroe, 35 



— fishery for. North Sea, 68, 72, 73, 78 

 for Irish Sea, 44, 75, 76, 78 



— fry of, 84 



— hatching of, 77-83 



— Iceland, 34 



— landed, 56, 279 



— migration of, Irish Sea, 241 

 North Sea, 240 



Plaice, report on, W. S. Masterman, 69 



— size Umits, 69, 71, 74, 76 



— statistics, 56, 64, 69, 279-280 



— transplanting, 85 



— type of flat-fish, 55. 86 



— West of Scotland, 41 



— White Sea, 33 



— Ymuiden, 277 

 Plankton, 227-232 

 feeders, 227 



— net, 229 

 Pleuronectes cynoglossus, 55 



— flesus, 55 



— limanda, 55 



— microcephalus, 55 



— platessa, 5 5 

 Pleuronectidae, 55 



— genera and species, British Seas, 5 5 



— quantity landed, British Isles, 56 

 Poitou, 16 



Pollack, weight and value landed, 



England and Wales, 89 

 Pollution of estuaries, 203n. ; of tidal 



waters, 203n., 204, 208 

 Port Erin hatchery, 77 

 Port of Southampton, shrimping by-law, 



197 

 Portugal, fisheries of, 265-266, 283 ; 



trawhng grounds, 45, 46 

 Posselt, i38n. 

 Potamogeton pectinatus, 97 

 Potted shrimps, 195 

 Prawn, so-called, 195 ; true, 195 

 Pribiloff Islands, 178 

 Price, average, of trawl-caught fish, 274 

 Prince, Prof., 82, 269n. 

 Professional Fishery Schools (Belgium), 



218-219 

 Prussian Commission for investigation 



of the sea, 223 

 Pseudo-Scandinavian trawlers, 164 

 Pteropoda, 228 

 Public Works (Ireland), Cpmmissioners 



of, 186 

 Puri, 16 

 Purification of polluted shellfish, 204- 



205, 212-213 

 Pyker, 128 

 Pype, M. rAbb6, 219-220 



Quantitative biological research, 288 



Races of herring, 98-101 



— of plaice, 61, 155 

 Radiolaria, 228-229 

 Ramsgate, 24, 145, 218 

 Rathbun, 259 

 Recommendations, Plaice Committee of 



International Council, 70-71 

 Reconstruction of sea-fisheries, xxiii-xxx 

 Redeke, 239 

 Redeke and Tesch, 88 

 Red herring, 7, 50, 127, 128, 129 

 Registration of fishing boats, 2 

 Reg. V. North Riding of Yorkshire 



County Council, i75n. 



