338 



INDEX. 



Drawings of salmon fry, 125 



Dredge, tlie oyster, described, 261 



Dredging at Coekenzie, 261 



Drift nets, 180 



Duke of Athole's experiments, 134 



Dundee Tared carp, 105 



Dutch cure of herrings, 40 



fisheries, 33 



salmon, 42 



Eabnings of fishermen, 227 

 Economy of an oyster-farm, 254 



of a salmon river, 141, 153 



Bel breeding, 45 



Eels, 12 



Egg boxes 'at Stormontfield, 85 



Eggs of fish, how impregnated, 5 



Enemies of the herring, 176 



Engagement for herring fishery, 184 



English river scenery, 107 



salmon rivers, 159 



Expense of a cod smack, 217 

 Extension of pisciculture, 91 

 External impregnation, 5 



Fallacies as to the natural history of 



the herring, 163 

 Family waters, 283 

 Farms, oyster, 244 

 Fascines for oysters, 242 

 Fecundity of fish, 3-5 



-of lobsters, 265 



of the cod fish, 207 



Figures of the ancient Dutch fishery, 86 



of the turbot fishery, 211 



Fish breeding in China, 62 



classification of, 1 



commerce, 28, 29 



„ in France 56 



communities, 275 



culture, 61 



distribution, 30 



eggs, packing of, 74 



Fisher' folk, sketches of, 299-336 

 Fishes of the salmon family, 140 

 Fisheries Keform Bill proposed, viii. 

 Fishery Board of Scotland, vi. 

 Fishermen's earnings, 227 

 Fisher names, 832 



weddings, 301 



Fishery expositions, 288 



Fishing for the English markets, 229 



industry in France, 55 



place at Comacchio, 47 



Fish life and growth, 1 

 Fish-market at Bale, 68 

 Fish ponds, 81 



table, 230 



Fittie, 317 



Finnan haddies, 205 



Flat-fish in Holland, 36 



spearing of, 116 



Food of fish, 26 



of the herring, 174 



Foreign Fishery Exhibition, 288 

 French fish commerce, 56 

 fishworaau, 821 



French oyster beds, 238 



sea fisheries, 52 



Fresh-water fish ponds, 32 

 fish, value of, 93 



Friesland fishers, 39 

 Fry of salmon, 125 

 Fusaro Lake, 240 



Gadid^ family, 203 



Galburt's piscicultural establishment, 75 



Gehin and Eemy, 66 



German demand for herrings, 186 



pisciculture, 80 



Gipsy anglers, 97 

 Gold fish, 104 



Gravid salmon, management of, 87 

 Green oysters, 247 

 Grilse growth, 135 

 killing, 147 



Ground plan of Huningue; 69 

 Growth of fish colonies, 27 



of the salmon, 126 



Gutting the herrings, 193 



Habits of the crustacef^, 271 

 Hague fishery exhibition, 289 ^ 

 Hall of incubation at Huningue, 71 

 Harbour of Corry, 120 

 Harbours, want of, in Scotland, 229 

 Hatching gutters at Huningue, 73 



of young salmon, 9 



Home aquariums, 288 



Hawkins of Colchester on oyster growth, 



258 

 Herring growth, 169 

 Herring-fishery, history of, 48 

 the, 178 



- harvest, description of the, 188 



- mortality, 10 



Herrings in Holland, 40 

 Herring talk, 179 



the, its natural history, 162 



worship in Holland,'. 39 



Hints to oyster-farmers 252 

 History of the herring fishery, 48 

 Hogg's experiments with parr, 129 

 Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd, 65 

 How do we obtain our haddocks, 201 

 Hull trawler, evidence of, 226 

 Humble life in Arran, 121 

 Huningue, 67 



ILE DE Be, 242 



Illustrations, list of, xvii. 



Irish fishing companies, 215 



Irish white-fish fisheries, 215 



Italian fish culture, 63 



Italian, Scottish, and French fisheries, 



45 

 Iteration of questions, 291 



Jack, 102 



Jack in his element, 102 



Jean Cowie's story, 329 



Kemmerer on oyster-growth, 249 

 Kent and Essex oyster-farms, 255 : 



