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BRITISH FISHERIES 



Over-fishing — continued. 



Select Committee of 1893 on, 

 61. 



statistical evidence of, 256. 



Trawling Commission on, 37. 

 Oysters, method of fishing, xxx. 



Pelagic fish ova, 162. 



Periwinkles, method of fishing, 

 xxx. 



Pipe-fish, breeding habits of, 155. 



Plaice eggs in North Sea, number 

 of, 326. 



Plankton, composition of, 178. 

 quantitative methods of in- 

 vestigating, 182. 

 variations of, 178, 185. 

 German Plankton-Expedition, 

 136. 



Plunket, Sir Horace, 130. 



Pollution of fisheries by sewage, 

 106. 



Pommerania, cruise of, 138, 202. 



Prawns, method of catching, xxx. 



Productivity of the sea, 193. 



Regulations, local English fish- 

 ing, 1 02. 



Re-imports of fish, 345. 



Restrictions on trawling in Eng- 

 land, 103. 



Salinity of sea-water, 204. 

 Bars, Professor G. O., 23, 34, 152. 

 Seining for herrings in.Clyde, 11. 

 Seine net fishing, xxvii. 

 Sexual maturity in fishes, 274. 

 Shell-fish landed in Britain, value 



of, xix. 

 Shrimp trawling, 281, 288. 

 Shrimps, methods of fishing, xxx. 

 Sizes for fish, legal, 8. 

 Sizes of fish at sexual maturity, 



274. 

 Sizesof fish proposed by N.S.P. A., 



63. 

 Skates, breeding habits of, 155. 



Skye, effect of Herring Trawling 



Acts in, 14. 

 Spawning habits of fishes, 155. 

 Spawning seasons of fishes, 157. 

 Sprat and whitebait fishing, 276. 

 Sprat fishing in Forth, 13. 

 Stake-nets, xxix. 

 Statistics — 



of fisheries in 1863, 15. 



of fishing vessels in 1883-1892, 



60; in 1883-1902, 260. 

 of fish landed in Britain in 



1903, xix. 

 Board of Trade, 225, 228. 

 collection of, by Duke of 



Edinburgh, 226. 

 compulsory returns of, 239. 

 cost of collection of, 226. 

 inaccuracy of Board of Trade 



statistics, 229. 

 Report of Inter-departmental 

 Committee on, 241. 

 Stickleback, nesting habit of, 156. 



Temperature of sea-water, 204. 

 Territorial limits, 45. 

 Trammel nets, xxix. 

 Transplantation of shell-fish, 68. 

 Trawlers — 



decrease of sailing, 257. 



in Firth of Clyde, foreign, 43. 



number of steam and sailing, 

 xvii. 

 Trawling — 



experiments, 92, 251. 



methods of, xxiii. 



restrictions on, 40, 43. 



Vessels, numbers of fishing, xvii. 

 Viviparous fishes, 155. 



Walker, Dr, 87. 



Walpole, Sir Spencer, 26, 77. 



WeirSj fishing, xxix. 



Whitebait, nature of, and method 



of fishing, 276. 

 Wilson, Mr J., 87. 



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