340 



INDEX. 



SergluB Orata^ 63 



SKadi 18 



Shell-flsli fisheries, 265 



Shaw's experiments in sahnon-breeding, 



130 

 Shaw of Dnunlanrig, 65 

 Shoaling of fish, 6 

 Shooting the herring-nets, 188 

 Shrimping, 276 

 Shrimps, 266 



Sights and scenes in Arran, 123 

 SiUook fishery, 209 

 Siluris Glania, 295 

 Size and weight of salmon, 146 

 Smolt i^t two years, 133 



and grilse, 132 



Soles, 212 



Song of the oyster-dredger, 262 



Spatting of oysters^ 233 



Spatting of the mussal, 281 



Spawning of oyst6rs,'233 



Speedie's lisherie^on the Tay, 153 



Spey, the, 155 ~ * ,-^ 



Sprats, 171, IfS' .. . , 



Sport for anglers,. 95, 



Stakes for mua^elj growth, 283 



Stake nets on the Solway, 147 



Statements by trawlers, 224 



Statistics, a plea for, vii 



of Stormontfleld, 88 



of the herring-fishery, 196 



wanted, 60 



Stories of fisher life, 820 

 Store for live lobsters, 270 

 Stoddart's calculations, 158 

 Stormontfleld, 81 

 Sutherlandshire, 98 



Tackle for sea angling, 113 



Tay economy and real economy, 154 



Tay, the river, 148 



Thames anglers, 94, 109 



Theory of spatting, 234 



of the spat, 253 



Tiles for oyster spat, 250 

 Transplanting the mussels, 285 

 Trawler, a, 221 



Trawlers' statements, 225 

 Trawl nets, 222 



question, the, 220 



Trout-fishing, 96 



ponds, plan of, 77 



Transport of salmon,' 145 

 Tiflbot, 210 

 Turtle culture, 79 

 Tweed Acts, 157 



Upper and lower salmon proprietors, 160 



Valhe of carp 102 



of early herrings, 187 



Variety of the fisheries, 51 

 Vendaoe, 22 

 View of a mussel farm, 286 

 Village, a French fishing, 280 

 Viviparous fish, 11 

 Voracity of pike, 103 



Waltoh, a shipwrecked fisherman, 280 

 Walton's discovery of mussel farming, 281 

 Water supplies at Huningue, 70 

 Weight of flah carried by fish railways, 



216 

 When herring spawn, 168 



ought heiTing to be taken! 172 



Where are the haddoclcs! 26, 204 

 White-fish fisheries, 201 

 Whiting, 208 

 Whitebait, 15, 17, 18, 19' 



in the Firth of Forth, 16 



Whitstable, 266 



Wholesale prices of salmon in London, 160 

 Wick in the herring season, 192 

 Williamson, Bev. Dugald's pamphlet, 



136 

 Woodhaven salmon-fishery, 149 

 Working an oyster farm, 257 ■ 

 Worldoffish, the, 274 



Yarmouth, 194 



Yield of fish firom Tay, 161 



Young's theory of parr growth, 131 



Zdvder Zee herring-fishery, 38 



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