INDEX 



297 



Ringkjobing grounds, 38 



River Schlei, 97 



Rochefort, 237 



Rockall trawling grounds, 35, 36, 



46 

 Rock cod, 46 

 Rorkarlar, 132 

 Rossati, Guido, 26411. 

 Rostock, 133 



Roumania, fisheries of, 266 

 Royal Dublin Society, 223 

 Royal Fishery Companies, 105 



— Irish Academy, 223 



— National Lifeboat Institution, 176 

 Russell, 90 



Russia, fisheries of, xvii, 266, 283 



— herring market, xiii, 7, 138 



Sailing trawlers, 24-28 ; catch by, 43, 



44-45, 281 

 St. Brieux, 17 

 St. Malo, 17 

 Saithe, 51 



SaUnity of sea-water, 226 

 Salmon scales, 60 

 Salt duties, 121, 123 

 Samuel, A. M., i27n. 

 Sand sole, 87 

 San Sebastian, 237 

 Santander, 237 

 Sars, G. O., 222 

 Sattgarn (herring nets), 132 

 Sa!unders, N., ii3n. 

 Scaffie fishing boat, 30 

 Scales as index of age, 60 

 Scania, herring fishery, 1 31-134 

 Scherzer, von, i4in. 

 Scheveningen, 139 

 Schlei river, 97 

 Schleswig, 145 

 Schmidt, 235n., 236 

 Schook, 136 



Schools for fishermen, 218, 221, 

 Sciaena, 46 

 Scientific research and the Sea Fisheries, 



222-243 

 Scott, Andrew, viii 

 Scottish Fishery Board (see under 



" Board ") 

 Scottish herring fishery, 46-47, 1 14-127 

 Scottish tonnage bounty system, 114- 



126 

 Scowtes, 130 

 Sea Fisheries, Bill of 1900, 74, 154 



Bill of 1904, 74, 155 



yield of (N.W. Europe), 1 1 



Sea-gull, 202 



— lettuce, 2o8n. 



— sticks, 106, 107, 126, 133 

 Second-class fishing vessels, 4 

 trawler, 27 



Secretary for Fisheries, proposed, 182 



Seine-nets, 15 



Semeyns, Meynert, i37n. 



Senegal ground, 46 



Serranus, 46 



Sewage Disposal, Royal Commission on, 



203-204, 211, 288 

 Sexual maturity, size at, plaice, 56, 61 ; 



herring, 49 

 Shad, the American, 83, 252 

 Shank nets, 193 

 Shellfish, fisheries for, 193-213 

 Shetland, 7, 114 

 Shrimpers, 193-197 

 Shrimps, 193 

 Shrimp trawling, 193-197 

 Silver eels, 235 

 Silver Pit, 38, 145 

 Single boaters, 73 

 Size limits : Denmark, 71 ; Germany, 



71 ; Holland, 71 



objections to, 73-77 



proposed legal, 71, 152, 154 



shellfish, 198-199 



Skagerrack, 38 



Skanor, 131-132 



Smaasild, 130 



Smack, description of, 24 ; gear of, 25 



Small plaice, destruction of, 62-77 



North Sea, 73, 78 



trade category, 64 



Smalls fishing ground, 41 



Smith, Adam, 114, 118, 123, 282 



— , Hugh M., vii, 25on., 253, 258 



— , Simon, 106, 139 n. 



Smith Bank, 38 



Smithsonian Institution, 259n. 



Smitt, 97n. 



Snoods, 29 



Society of the Free British Fishery, 109, 



122 



Sole, the, 87-89 ; fisheries (statistics), 



43, 88, 281 

 Solea lascaris, 87 



— lutea, 87 



— variegata, 87 



— vulgaris, 87 

 Solenette, 87, 196 

 Southampton, enteric fever at, 205 

 South Africa, fisheries of, 271 



South of Ireland, trawling grounds, 41, 



46 

 Southport potted shrimps, 195 



— soles, 87 



South Wales fishery district, xix 

 Southwell, 268 

 Southwold, 112, 113 

 Spain, fisheries of, 266, 283 

 Spawning grounds : haddock, 90 



herring, 96, 97 



plaice, 57 



sole, 88 



Stake nets, 13, 193 



State aid and fishery research, 244- 



249 

 Stationery Ofiice, H.M., viii 

 Statistical introduction, i 

 Statistics, collection of, i, 8 



— during war, xxxi 

 Stead, 269n. 

 Steam drifters, 29 



