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INDEX. 



Esk (South) in Forfarshire, decrease 

 of salmon in, 116. 



Esquimaux, number of salmon eaten 

 by one, 5. 



Expense of working fisheries de- 

 creased by adoption of recent 

 Acts, 165. 



Export of salmon from Scotland in 

 olden times, 4. 



of pickled salmon in olden 



times, 91 ; from Brora, 96. 



prohibited at certain times, 



176. 

 Exported salmon, value of, in 1862, 



177. 

 Eye of parr and salmon of similar 



formation, 36. 



Pacts about the salmon's history that 



are indisputable, 31. 

 Feeding of young salmon, 49. 

 Female parrs at one time supposed 



to descend first year, and males 



the second, 47. 

 Fenton, lines on Durfey and Dryden, 



27. 

 Fish made to be eaten, 18. 

 Fisheries Preservation Association 



and Sanitary Association unite in 



an address to Lord Palmerston, 205. 

 Fishermen never charged with cruelty 



by objectors to angling, 21. 

 Fixed engines, how they would have 



been treated by Scotch Bill of 1861, 



167 ; question still open, 169. 

 Fixed nets, Destructiveness of, 124, 



125, 132. 

 Floods, Supposed influence of, 49. 

 Food, Supply of, 1, 12-14, 215-221. 

 increased by legislative changes. 



215. 



Salmon taken near the sea best 



for, 149. 



Forfarshire coast. Stake-nets on, 124, 



126. 

 Forth, Salmon in river, in former 



days, 92. 

 Foul fish not to be killed in legal 



fishing season, 163. 



Exportation of, 177, 178. 



France, Pisciculture in, 221, 222. 

 Francis (Francis) on Pisciculture, re- 

 ferred to, 222. 



Francks (Eichard P.) Philanthropus 

 on names of brood of salmon, 34. 



on abundance of salmon in 



Scotland, 91, 92. 



on barbarity of spearing salmon. 



161. 

 Fresh waters, our loss by neglecthig 



their preservation, 219. 

 Frightening of fish by stake-nets and 



white objects, 132, 138. 

 Future salmon legislation, 180-218. 



Galway, Mr. Ashworth's operations 

 in, 226. 



Game and landed proprietors com- 

 pared with salmon and fishery pro- 

 prietors, 149. 



Garonne, Salmon in, known to Roman 

 soldiers, 3. 



Gay an angler, 27. 



Glasgow, Salmon in heraldic arms 

 of, 116. 



Grant of Crown rights to salmon- 

 fisheries, 7. 



Grayling introduced into Clyde, 228. 



Grilse, When smolts become, 54-56; 

 invariably ascend after smolts have 

 descended, 57. 



whether an adolescent salmon 



or a distinct fish ? 63. 



ascend rivers at'a certain period, 



and then all at once, 64. 



