CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



FISH LIFE AND GEOWTH. 



PAGE 



- Classification of Pish — Their Form and Colour — Mode and Means of 

 Life — Curiously-sliaped Fish — Senses of Smell and Hearing in 

 Fish — Fish nearly Insensihle to Pain — The Fecundity of Fish — 

 Sexual Instinct of Fish — Eztemal Impregnation of the Ova — 

 Ripening of a Salmon Egg — Birth. of a Herring — ^The BAchversus the 

 Poor Man's Fish— Curious Stories ahout the Growth of the Eel — 

 All that is known ahout the Mackerel — Whitehait — Mysterious 

 Fish ; the Vendace and the Powan — Where are the Haddocks ? — 

 The Food of Fish — Fish as a rule not Migratory — The Growth of 

 Fish Shoals — ^When Fish are good for Food— The Balancing Power 

 of ^Nature 1 



CHAPTEE IL 



FISH COMMEECE. 



Early Fish Commerce — Sale of Fresh-water Fish — Cured Fish — Influ- 

 ence of Rapid Transit on the Fisheries — ^Fish-ponds — The Logan 

 Pond — Ancient Fishing Industries — The Dutch Herring Fishing 

 — Zuyder Zee Herring Fishery — The Fishers of Friesland — ^The 

 Herring in Holland — The Dutch Cure — ^Dutch Salmon — Sahnou 

 Fishing in Holland — Law of the Fishing .... 28 



CHAPTER III. 



ITALIAN, SCOTTISH, AND FEENCH FISHEEIES. 



Comacchio — ^The Art of breeding Eels — A well-designed Eel Farm — 

 Profits of Eel-breeding in the 16th century — ^Progress of Fishing 

 in Scotland — A Scottish Bus — Newfoundland Fisheries — The 

 Greenland Whale Fisbing — Specialty of different Fishing Towns — 

 The General Sea Fisheries of France — French Fish Commerce- 

 French Sea Fisheries — The Basin of Aroachon — French Sardine 

 Fishery — Saidine Curing — Want of Statistics of the British 

 Fisheries . • 45 



