INDEX 



Aborted (or rudimentary) fins, 53 

 Acts of Parliament referred to — 

 Act of 1318, fry of fishes, 9 

 Act of 1426, " uthir fische," 9 

 Act of 1469, " fisch," 9 

 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1828, 



" fish of the salmon kind," 9 

 vSalmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1844, 



" fish of the salmon kind," 9 

 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1862, 

 Statutory definition of " salmon," 9, 

 67 (note), 206 

 Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868, 

 eggs and spawn, 92, 165 

 fry, 92 



kelts, 132, 166, 167 (note) 

 smolts, 92 

 Tweed Fisheries Act, 1859, kelts, 167 

 Adipose fin, 53, 54, 95 



Age and Growth of Salmon and Trout in 

 Norway as shown by their Scales, 

 Knut Dahl, 92 (note), 108-110 

 Alevins, 74-76, 79, 80, i2i, 196-198 

 salmon, 76 



sea-trout, description, 75 

 distinctions, salmon, sea-trout and 



trout tabulated, 76 

 eye, 75 



hatching out, 74-76, 80, 196 

 mortality, 79, 197, 198 

 nomenclature, 121 

 trout, 76 

 Anadromous habit, char, 29 



salmon and sea-trout, 24, 29 

 Anal fin, 53, 55 

 Angler-Naturalist, The, H. Cholmondeley- 



Pennell, 16, 33, 56, 78 

 Armistead, J. J., authority on hatchery 

 work, 199 

 mortality of trout eggs, etc., 78, 198 

 Armistead, W.H., spawning trout, 139 

 Artificial propagation, 179-200 

 alevins, 196 



basket system, 185, 186 

 collection of ova, 188-190 

 cost of hatchery, 201, 202 

 cross breeding, 15, 23, 36, 164 



Artificial propagation, dead eggs, 195 

 disposal of fry, 197, 198 

 fertilisation, 190, 191 

 filling the boxes, 191, 192 

 fish handled, table showing data, 193 

 glass grille system, 184, 186 

 handling ova, 194 

 incubation, 194 



Luss Hatchery described, 181-187 

 mortality of eggs, etc., 195-198 

 nets, 189 



output of boxes, 186 

 spate water, 195, 197 

 stripping fish, 190 

 transport of fry, 199 

 value of hatchery work, 179, 180 



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Bickerdyke, John, sea-trout fishing, 11 



" Black-nebs," 119, 121 



Book of the All-Round Angler, The, John 



Bickerdyke, 11 

 Book on Angling, A, Francis Francis, 11 

 Boulenger, George A., bull-trout, 40, 63 ; 



SalmonidcB, original habitat, 31 

 Brachymystax, genus, 18 

 British and Irish SalmonidcB, Dr. Francis 



Day, IS, 22, 32, 40, 60 

 British Fresh-water Fishes, Rev. W. 



Houghton, 40 

 Bull Trout, Aln fish, scales, 65, 66 

 classification, 13, 17-19, 42, 206, 208 

 distinct species suggested, 42, 208 

 one species with sea-trout (Malloch), 16 

 " race " of S. trutta (Regan), 38 

 variety S. eriox of 5. trutta (Calder- 

 wood), 40 

 Crown's rights in Scotland, 7 

 gill-covers, 56, 62 

 " grey trout " (Yarrell), 56 

 Hebridean, 25 

 late ascent, 64, 148 

 Norwegian, 66 



Salmo eriox, 14, 25, 39, 40, 41 

 scales, 42, 64-66, 207 



sea-trout, distinguished from, 38, 40, 42, 

 56, 61-67, 175, 207 

 Calderwood, 40, 207 



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