INDEX. 



AlGUILLON, 278 



Anatomy of the sprat, 171 

 Ancient epicures, 210 



fishing indnatries, 33 



Anecdote of a fishwife, 305 

 Anglers' fishes, 93, 99 

 Angling for salmon, 94 

 Anomalies in salmon growth, 86 

 American oysters, 263 

 Aquariums, 288 

 Arcachon, 289 



with its oyster-heds, 53 



Axran, island of, 119 



Artificial fish-breeding, 66 



Art of trawling, 223 



Ashworth on oyster-parks, 244 



Auchmithie, 316 



Australia, introduction of salmon, 91 



Authorities, list of, ix. 



Average size of the herring, 170 



Bad eflfects of trawling, 225 

 Bag and stake nets, 148 

 Bait for sea-fish, 114 



importance of, 277 



Balance of nature, 27 



Bale, 67 



Bargaining by fishwives, 304 



Basin of Arcachon, 53 



Basins for young fish at Huningue, 72. 



Beetle, remarkable, 12 



Billingsgate, 59 



Boats, decked and open, 197 



Bois6r6s, Viviers at Arcachon, 292 



Bceuf, the oyster-breeder, 243 



Bouchots, 282 



Bounties to herring-fishers, 185 



Breeding-ponds for salmon at Stormont- 



fleld, 82 

 Brighton Aquarium, 293 

 Brown, Mr. William, Natural History of 



the Salmon, 137 

 Buckhaven, S12 

 Buckie, 214 



Buckland, Frank, quoted, 159 

 Buckland's museum, 293 

 Buist, the late Bobert, 86 



Cancer Pagurus, 268 

 Caprice of the herring, 175 

 Carp-breeding, 106 

 family, 104 



Cheek's advice to anglers, 97 



Chinese fish-culture, 61 



Claires for oysters, 246 



Classification of fish, 1 



Cleghom, John, his views on the herring, 



166 

 Close-time for herring, 173 



for oysters, 234 



Clyde, river, 118 

 Cod-curing, 208 



fish, 206 



fishery of Newfoundland, 51 



roe for bait, 206 



Colne oyster-beds, 258 

 Colours of fish, 2 

 Commacchio, 45 

 Commerce in herring, 183 



in lobsters, 269 



in mussels, 287 



Commercial fish-culture, 64 



Concameau, 57 



Conditions under which oysters spawn, 



236 

 Contents, table of, xiii. 

 Contrast between salmon and heiring, 



10 

 Controversies about oyster-life, 232 

 Co-operation among fishers, 313 

 Co-operative salmon-fishing, 161 

 Cornwall in the pilchard season, 182 

 Corry in Arran, 119 

 Crabs, land, 273 

 Cray fish, 277 



Crustacea, natm-al history of, 272 

 Crystal Palace aquarium, 294 

 Cultivation of mussels, 281 

 Culture of the mussel, 284 

 Curing the pilchard, 183 

 Curing-yard for herring, view of, 187 



Danube Salmon, 75 



Demand for white fish, 202 



Dempster's discovery, 144 



Diagram of the herring-fishery, 200 



Differences in the herring of dififeren 

 localities, 164 



Diquemarc's description of oyster spawn- 

 ing, 237 



Discovery of pickled herrings, 35 



Distribution of fish, SO 



of the herring, 167 



Double migration of salmon, 136 



