INDEX.

A fishing “toon” described, [446].
A fishwife’s proverb, [425].
A lobster-spill in the Thames, [389].
A Member of Parliament on the fish supply, [67].
A widow’s story, [463].
About “natives,” [369].
Absurd statement about herring spawn, [236].
Absurdity of eating cod-roe, [291].
Across the Channel, [56].
Acclimatisation of fish, [125], [482].
Account of a fisherman’s wedding-dance, [421].
Account of the latest spawning season at Stormontfield, [108].
Adaptability of means to end in shell-fish, [384].
Admiration of Scottish pearls, [403].
Advance of money in the herring trade, [255].
Advantages of a close-time for oysters, [338].
Advantages of the tile system in oyster-culture, [363].
Advice to fishermen as to bait, [417].
Age at which oysters are sent to be greened, [360].
Age at which oysters are sent to market, [339].
Age of herring before they spawn, [237].
Aggregate sailings of the Wick boats, [279].
Agriculture in France, [77].
All fish unwholesome at time of spawning, [242].
Allston the London oyster-merchant, [373].
Ambition of fisher lads, [440].
America, oysters in, [380].
American pike, [143].
American sociality over oysters, [346].
Amount of attention required by a large oyster-farm, [365].
Ancient fishing industries, [40].
Ancient ideas as to fish, [8].
Ancient knowledge of the oyster, [333].
Anecdote of a minister’s visit to a fisherman, [432].
Anecdote of a London litterateur, [379].
Anecdotes of a fishwife, [428].
Angler-fish, [156].
Anglers’ fishes, [129], [137].
Anglers and angling, [132].
Angling all the year round, [132].
Angling localities, [137].
Angling in the Thames, [150].
Angling on the Tay, [212].
Angling sport in Scotland, [130].
Annual revenue of the river Tay fisheries, [213].
Annual sacrifice to crustacean gastronomy, [397].
Anomalies in salmon growth, [105], [180].
Antidote to enchantment, the fisherman’s, [435].
Antiquity of pearls, [398].
Apparatus for catching lobsters, [161].
Apparatus for pisciculture, [115].
Appendix, [491].
Approach of the herring season, [246].
Arcachon, Bay of, [365].
Are herrings of the same shoal all of the same age?, [238].
Are the pisciculturists robbing Peter to pay Paul?, [88].
Are there more fish in the sea than ever came out of it?, [474].
Arran, the island of, [165].
Arrival of salmon ova in Australia, [120].
Arctic Seas, no herrings in the, [231].
Artificial oyster-breeding, [350].
Artificial oyster-breeding in Marennes, [75].
Artificial spawning, [86], [87].
Art of dredging oysters, [378].
Art of shrimping, [396].
Art of trawling, [311].
Ashworth’s experiments, [117].
Ashworth’s opinion of oyster-culture, [354].
Attention required by an oyster-farm, [365].
Auchmithie, [444].
Auctioneers of fish, [437].
August herring-fishery at Wick, [280].
Authentic contradiction to Pennant’s theory, [231].
Authorities, list of, quoted, [499].
Avarice of salmon-fishery lessees, [200].
Average age at which salmon are killed, [207].
Average capture of herrings per boat in 1820, [279].
Average number of crans of herring taken by each boat in 1862, [276].
Average of oyster-reproduction at Re, [358].
Averages of the catch of herrings in 1862, [276].
Aversion of fisher-people to be counted, [453].
Awkward contretemps, [468].
Bad effects of trawling, [315].
Bag-nets, their baneful influence on the salmon-fisheries, [208].
Bain, Mr. Donald, on the salmon question, [222], [489].
Bait for line-fishing, [306].
Bait for lobsters, [385].
Bait for sea-angling, [158].
Bait, importance of cheap, [410].
Balance of nature, [33].
Bale in Switzerland, [80].
Bannock-fluke, the, [297].
Bargain-making by fishwives, [426].
Bargains made by boat-owners, [257].
Barnet, Mr., of Kinross, [140].
Barking trawlers, [309].
Barrack-life in Comacchio, [458].
Barrels, great numbers of, on the quays at Wick, [268].
Basins for the young fish at Huningue, [85].
Bass, the, of Lake Wennern, [125].
Battle of the swine at St. Monance, [434].
Bay of Aiguillon, [412].
Bay of the Departed, [455].
Bay of St. Brieuc, [351].
Beef, the stone-mason of the island of Re, [352].
Bell Rock, [444].
Benefits derived from a good fishery, [44].
Best conditions of fish for spawning, [341].
Best kind of boats for herring-fishing, [272].
Best kinds of fish to rear on the artificial plan, [97].
Best spawning-ground for herring, [238].
Best way of marking young salmon, [196].
Billingsgate, [65].
Billingsgate salesman’s, a, letter on trawling, [319].
Bird’s-eye view of Fusaro, [349].
Bit of dialogue, [470].
Black-beetle, a wonderful, [17].
Bloaters and red-herrings, [270].
Board of White Fisheries, [486].
Boat speculation by ship-carpenters, [441].
Bolam, evidence on trawling by Thomas, [314].
Bouchots for growing mussels, [411].
Boulogne, [454].
Bounty given in the herring-trade, [255].
Brand, the, [263].
Breeding-ponds for salmon at Stormontfield, [99].
Breeding-pyramid for oysters, [350].
Brewing of oyster-spat, [337].
Brilliancy of fish-colour, [2].
British oyster-eaters, [345].
Brown, Mr. Wm., of Perth, on the salmon, [194].
Buckhaven, [438], [439].
Buckie, [466].
Buckie fishermen, [302].
Buisse, suite of ponds at, [93].
Burning the water, [204].
Business, how it is conducted at Re, [358].
Buist’s notes on Stormontfield, [111].
Buist’s opinions about the parr, [183].
Calculations as to herring increase, [7].
“Caller Ou,” [425].
Cancale, [58].
Cancale, the shell-middens of, [351].
Canoe used by the boucholeurs of Aiguillon, [413].
Capital of French oysterdom, [352].
Caprice of the herring, [244].
Capturing herrings with a seine-net, [250].
Carlisle of Inveresk, Dr., [435].
Carp, [144].
Carp-breeding, [147].
Carp-ponds, [147].
Carriage of fish in France, cost of, [61].
Catch of herrings in 1862-63, [272].
Catching shell-fish, [385].
Causes assigned for caprice of herring, [244].
Cause of attraction to the male fish while spawning, [9].
Cause of the parr anomaly, [105].
Census of Fittie, [450].
Census of persons employed in the herring-fishery, [275].
Ceremonies among the eel-breeders of Comacchio, [459].
Ceremony of marriage among fishermen, [421].
Ceylon pearl-fishery, [398].
Chance fishing, [301].
Changes in the Crustacea, [392].
Character of the fisher-folk, [471].
Character of the Scottish fishwife, [324].
Charming May, [138].
Charitable fishery experiment, [388].
Charr, [153].
Cheek on angling, [135].
Chief British salmon-streams, [209].
Chief fishing-grounds in the North Sea, [306].
Chinese pisciculture, [69], [70].
Claires for greening oysters, [360].
Claires for oysters, view of, [357].
Clannishness of the fisher-folk, [481].
Classification of fish, [1].
Cleanliness of the Newhaven fisherwomen, [431].
Cleghorn, Mr. John, of Wick, on the herring, [231], [232].
Clements, John, of Hull, his evidence, [316].
Close-times for herrings quite possible, [242].
Close-time for lobsters in France, [391].
Close-time for oysters, [336].
Clyde, the river, [163].
Coarse work of the herring-gutters, [270].
Coast fishing-boats, [272].
Cod and haddock fishing very laborious, [301].
Codfish, number of eggs in a, [5].
Codfish, description of the, [291].
Codfish, how it grows, [31].
Cod-liver oil, [292].
Cod-roe at dinner, [243].
Coldingham fishermen, good behaviour of, [438].
Colne oyster-beds, [370].
Cold seasons unfavourable to oyster-breeding, [338].
Colour of fish, [2].
Comacchio, [19], [457].
Comacchio, drawing of a division of, [48].
Comfort of a fisherman’s dwelling, [430].
Commencement of the great gale on the Moray Firth, [324].
Commerce in fish, [34].
Commerce in herrings, [254].
Commerce in salmon, [198].
Commerce in shell-fish, [384].
Commercial value of salmon, [199].
Commissioners’ report on the herring-fishery for 1864, [275].
Common carp, [146].
“Commons,” in oyster nomenclature, [368].
Community of fishers at Fittie, [449].
Comparative tables of the fishery at Wick, [281].
Concluding remarks on the Fisheries, [474].
Conclusion, [490].
Condition of trawl-fish, [320].
Conditions under which the herring is found, [240].
Conduct of the white-fisheries, [301].
Connecticut, fish-manufactory in, [136].
Consumption of fish, [67].
Consumption of oysters in London, [373].
Contents of a dredge, [378].
Continental demand on our fisheries, [286].
Controversies about oyster life, [335].
Controversies about the salmon, [178].
Controversy about the parr, [181].
Controversy about the pearl rivers, [406].
Controversy among fishermen at Lochfyne, [250].
Controversy in Scotland as to fixed engines of salmon-capture, [206].
Conversation with a Strasbourg pêcheur, [88].
Cooking of pike, [143].
Cooking of oysters, [346].
Co-operation among fishermen, [309], [441].
Co-operation better than competition, [223].
Cornwall in the pilchard season, [251].
Coromandel oysters, [379].
Corry in Arran, view of, [171].
Coste, Professor, [76].
Coste’s, Professor, plan of oyster-culture, [347].
Coste’s recommendation to the French Government, [350].
Couch, Mr. Jonathan, on the food of the pilchard, [251].
Couch on the mackerel, [21].
Couleur de rose statements as to the fisheries, [475].
Councillor Hawkins on the Colchester oyster, [370].
Course of the fisheries, [55].
Course of the herring-fishery, [229].
Course of oyster-farming, [365].
Course of work on the oyster-beds at Whitstable, [365].
Crab-catching, [386].
Cray-fish, [397].
Creel-hawking, [436].
Crustacean commerce, [387].
Cullercoats fisherman, evidence of a, [312].
Cultivating the mussel-farm, [413].
Cultivation of “natives,” [369].
Cultivation of our lochs, [140].
Culture of mussels, [410].
Culture of oysters, [346].
Culture of oysters, progress in, [354].
Culture of turtle on the artificial plan, [96].
Curing of cod in Scotland, [293].
Cure of herrings in Scotland, 1862-63, [273].
Curing pilchards, [253].
Curing sprats to be sold as sardines, [253].
Curious forms of fish, [3].
Curiosities of superstition at Newhaven, [433].
Daily statement of the number of herring-boats at Wick in 1862, [276].
Danube salmon, [89], [98].
Dates marking chief incidents of salmon life, [195].
Dealing in herrings, [254].
Decline of creel-hawking in Scotland, [443].
Decline of the cod-fishery, [303].
Decrease of the Scottish haddock-fishery, [318].
Decreasing size of haddocks, [315].
Dee salmon-fisheries, [112], [113].
Delineation of flat fishes, [297].
Demand for fish in Catholic countries, [277].
Demand for oysters, [373].
Demand for white fish, [286].
Dempster’s discovery of packing salmon in ice, [36], [202].
Departure of the herring-fleet from the Texel, [45].
Description of Auchmithie, [445].
Description of a drift-net, [248].
Description of a lobster-trap, [385].
Description of a mussel-farm, [412].
Description of a periwinkle, [384].
Description of a trawler, [309].
Description of green oyster-claires, [359], [360].
Description of Newhaven, near Edinburgh, [430].
Description of the lobster, [390].
Description of the oyster, [334].
Description of the pilchard-fishery, [252].
Design for a complete suite of salmon-ponds, [103].
Desire for more herring statistics, [283].
Destruction of young fish, [478].
Destructive power of the trawl-net, [308].
Development of the herring, [240].
Dexterity of the herring-gutters, [270].
Diagram of herring-netting and fish, [282].
Dialect of the Moray Firth fisher-folk, [469].
Dialogue between a fishwife and her customer, [427].
Differences in size, shape, and flavour of the herrings of different places, [230].
Different countries must have different fishing seasons, [299].
Different kinds of cured herrings, [271].
Different kinds of sea-fish, [155].
Difficulties in the way of collecting spat, [362].
Difficulties of obtaining accurate information about the herring, [235].
Difficulty of obtaining statistics of fisheries, [66], [285].
Dimensions of the great heer, [228].
Diminution of lobsters, [318].
Discipline of Comacchio, [457].
Disparity in size of young salmon, [106].
Distinct races of herrings, [230].
Dish of crablets, [344].
Distribution of cured eels, [462].
Distribution of fish, [37].
Diving for pearls in Scotland, [407].
Division of labour in Fittie, [450].
Do fish live a separate life?, [9].
Does an oyster yield its young in millions?, [339].
Dogfish, diminution of, in 1862, [274].
Dogger Bank fishery, [303].
Doon pearl-fishery, [408].
Doon pearls inferior, [409].
Do the herring live singly up till the period of spawning?, [238].
Double migration of the salmon, [193].
Doubts as to former abundance of fish, [479].
Dr. Dod on the herring and sprat, [239].
Drawbacks to oyster-farming in France, [354].
Drawing of a two-year-old smolt, [189].
Drawings of the pearl-mussel, [399].
Dredging for oysters at Cockenzie, [377].
Dredging for pearls, [407].
Dress of a Newhaven fishwife described, [429].
Drift versus trawl nets, [250].
Dunbar herring-fleet, [443].
Duke of Athole’s marked fish, [190].
Dutch fishing industry, [41].
Duties of fishermen, [490].
Duty charged on French fish, [61].
Duty of the coopers at the herring curing, [262].
Early fish commerce, [35].
Earnings of trawlers, [319].
Economy of the herring shoals, [277].
Edible Crustacea described, [391].
Edible molluscs, [384].
Edinburgh oyster-ploys, [345].
Edinburgh oyster-taverns, [345].
Eel-breeders, the, of Comacchio, [45].
Eel-cooking at Comacchio, [460].
Eel-curing at Comacchio, [461].
Eel-fair, [19].
Eel, the, [17].
Effects of the concentration of a thousand boats on one shoal of herrings, [283].
Effects of a storm on the Moray Firth, [472], [473].
Effects of royal notice on the fishwives, [429].
Effects of the discovery of Mr. Dempster, [205].
Egg-boxes at Huningue, [83].
Egg-boxes at Stormontfield, [104].
Egg-laying by the hen lobster, [392].
Eggs of the salmon kind just hatching, [13].
Emotions of the first oyster-eater, [343].
Enemies of the salmon, [199].
Engaging of boats for the herring-fishery, [255].
English lakes, the, [153].
English river scenery, [148].
English salmon-fisheries, [217].
English trawl fishermen, [308].
Enterprise of the Scottish herring-curers, [259].
Enthusiasm of those concerned in the herring-harvest, [246].
Episode of a cradle, [468].
Erroneous information as to pearls, [409].
Estimated quantity of oysters in various stages of growth, [368].
Evidence on the trawl question, [312].
Exaggeration as to supplies of fish, [481].
Example of a well-managed salmon stream, [215].
Examples of nicknames among fishermen, [467].
Excess of herrings cured in 1862, [273].
Excitement on shore during a storm, [326].
Excitement on the coast during the herring season, [247].
Expense of forming an oyster-bank, [352].
Expenses of fishing-vessels, [310].
Experience as to the Tweed fisheries, [224].
Experiment in fructifying fish-eggs, [8].
Experiments in oyster-breeding in the Bay of St. Brieuc, [351].
Experiments in pearl-fishing in the Scottish lochs, [406].
Experiments with salmon ova in ice, [119].
Exportation of salmon ova, [119].
Exquisite flavour of the green oyster, [362].
Extension of legislation on the salmon question, [204].
Extension of pisciculture, [117].
Extension of the Scotch pearl-fishery, [402].
Extension of the salmon trade, [205].
Extent of business done in oysters at Whitstable, [366].
Extent of French fisheries, [91].
Extent of oyster-beds in the Firth of Forth, [375].
Extent of the Gadidæ family, [287].
Extent of the mussel-farm in the Bay of Aiguillon, [412].
Extent of the river Tay, [209].
Extent of trawling, [311].
Extraordinary scene on the river Doon, [404].
Exuviation of the lobster, [391].
Eyemouth, [438].
Fable, Italian, [452].
Facts of the herring question, brought out before the British Association, [232].
Failure of the Ceylon pearl-fisheries, [400].
Faithfulness of salmon to their old haunts, [193].
Falling-off in the herring supply attributed to the trawl, [314].
Falling-off of certain rivers, [205].
Falling-off of oyster supplies in France, [347].
Fancy picture of the growth of a fishing hamlet, [419].
Fascines for oyster-breeding, [351].
Farms for oysters in Kent and Sussex, [366].
Faroe cod-banks, exhaustion of, [303].
Faversham oyster-grounds, [367].
Fearful scene, [329].
Feats performed by Fisherrow women, [435].
Fecundity of crabs, [383].
Fecundity of fish, [5].
Fecundity of lobsters, [383].
Fecundity of shell-fish, [383].
Feeding and digestive power of fish, [4].
Feeding-ground, influence of the, on fish, [29].
Fife, the coast of, [438].
Figures appertaining to herring-fishery of 1862-63, [273].
Figures illustrating the August herring-fishery at Wick, [280].
Figures of the Dutch fishery, [44].
Figures of the Wick catch of herrings, [279].
Findon, [448].
Fine flavour of the green oyster, [362].
Finesse by a fishwife, [427].
Finnan haddocks, [290], [448].
Firth-built fishing-boats, [440].
Firth of Forth whitebait, [24].
Fish auctioneers, [437].
Fish cadgers and hawkers, [442].
Fish-breeding in Norway, [75].
Fish-capture by line, [305].
Fish-commerce, [34].
Fish-commerce in France, [60].
Fish-communities, [295].
Fish-culture, [69].
Fish-culture in Italy, [71].
Fish-dinners, [23].
Fisher-folk’s philosophy of marriage, [431].
Fisher-folk, the, [418].
Fisheries of Holland, [44].
Fishermen’s antipathy to swine, [434].
Fishermen, differences of opinion among, [30].
Fishermen of Eyemouth, condition of the, [438].
Fishermen’s belief in luck, [257].
Fishermen’s children, [445].
Fishermen should grow their own bait, [147].
Fishermen’s nicknames, [466].
Fishermen’s wives, [323].
Fisher-names, [467].
Fisher-people’s notions of religious duty, [437].
Fisher-people the same everywhere, [418].
Fisherrow, [435].
Fisher weddings, [420].
Fishery statistics by a Buckhaven man, [442].
Fishes of the salmon family, [198].
Fish-guano, observations on, [491].
Fishing boats, best kind of, [272].
Fish insensible to pain, [3].
Fish labyrinth at Comacchio, [46].
Fish life and growth, [1].
Fishmarket at Bale, [81].
Fish-offal as manure, [331].
Fish-poachers, [135].
Fish-ponds, [38].
Fish quite local, [482].
Fish-shoal, growth of, [32].
Fish-table, [300].
Fish-tithe riots at Eyemouth, [438].
Fishwives at church, [428].
Fishwives’ finesse in bargaining, [427].
Fishwives of Newhaven, [424].
Fishwives of Paris, [456].
Fittie, [449].
Fixed engines of capture, [205], [206].
Flat fish, [156].
Flat fish consumed in London, [298].
Flat fish family, the, [297].
Flavour of different herrings, [230].
Flavour of fish, [28].
Floating with the tide, [266].
Fluctuation in the take of herrings at Wick, [232].
Fondness for dancing of the fisher-people, [421].
Fondness of gannets for herring, [283].
Food of the herring, [243].
Food of the mussel, [414].
Food of the oyster, [361].
Food of the salmon, [192].
Footdee or Fittie, [449].
Forbes Stuart and Co.‘s tables of the London salmon supply, [221].
Foresight of the oyster, [342].
Former abundance of fish doubted, [479].
Former scarcity of the haddock, [288].
Forming an oyster-farm, [355].
Foul salmon at Billingsgate, [204].
Four years’ work at oyster-farming, [356].
France, fishing industry in, [58].
Francis Sinclair, a herring-fisherman of Wick, [265].
Free Dredgers’ Company at Whitstable, [366].
Free fisheries a mistake, [489].
Free oyster-grounds, [368].
French boats interfering with the fishery, [318].
French fishwoman, [454].
French foreshores, industry on, [57].
French legend, [455].
French North Sea fisheries, [59].
French oyster-eaters, [344].
Frequent examination of oysters at Whitstable, [369].
Fresh herrings, [258].
Fresh-water fish, commerce in, [35].
Fresh-water fish not of much food value, [129].
Friday an unlucky day, [433].
From the parr to the smolt, [187].
Full versus shotten herrings, [241].
Functions of the Board of Fisheries, [486].
Fusaro, Lake, [348].
Future of the fisheries, [481].
Galbert’s trout establishment, [92].
Gadidæ, [285].
Gadidæ family, the, [289].
Galway fisheries, [117].
Gathering-in of the boats to the herring-fishery, [246].
Gathering the mussel-harvest in Aiguillon, [413].
General machinery of fish-capture, [304].
Geographical distribution of the herring, [234].
Geographical distribution of the oyster, [379].
Geologists’ paradise, [164].
George the Fourth’s fondness for Finnan haddocks, [448].
German pisciculture, [98].
Gipsy anglers, [135].
Glen Sannox, [175].
Glut of herrings at Billingsgate, [258].
Goatfell, [165].
Golden carp, [140], [145].
Gold-fish in factory ponds, [145].
Government by gyneocracy, [426].
Gravid salmon, treatment of, [114].
Great haul of salmon on the Thurso, [205].
Great storm on the Moray Firth, the, of 1857, [327].
Greed of Scottish dredgermen, [375].
Green oysters, [359].
Grieve, Mr., of the Café Royal, Edinburgh, [288].
Grilse growth, [191].
Grilse and smolt, [187].
Ground-plan of fish laboratory at Huningue, [82].
Ground suitable for breeding and fattening oysters, [361].
Group of Newhaven fishwives, [424].
Growth of a fishing village, [419].
Growth of a fish-shoal, [32].
Growth of fish, [1].
Growth of salmon ova, [12].
Growth of the mussel in the Bay of Aiguillon, [415].
Growth of the oyster-park system, [353].
Growth of the young salmon in Australia, [123].
Guano, fish, observations on, [491].
Gulf of Manaar pearl-fisheries, [400].
Gulf of St. Lawrence, [310].
Gunther’s opinion of the Silurus glanis, [126].
Gutters for hatching purposes at Huningue, [86].
Gutters of herring, [269].
Habits and character of the Fittie people, [451].
Habits of fish, [316].
Habits of the haddock, [289].
Habits of the pearl-oyster, [401].
Haddock, the, [287].
Haddocks, former scarcity of, [288].
Haddocks, where are they?, [30].
Half-decked boats, [307].
Happy fishing-grounds, [367].
Harbours, [302].
Harbour accommodation, want of, in Scotland, [272], [321].
Harvest of eels at Comacchio, [459].
Hashing of young fish not peculiar to the trawl, [320].
Has the oyster eyes?, [335].
Hatching of salmon, [11].
Hauling in the nets, [266].
Hawkers of fish, [442].
Hearing power of fish, [4].
Herring-buss, cost of, [51].
Herring-commerce, [254].
Herring-curing, [260].
Herring-fishing at Wick in August, [280].
Herring fishing at Wick in September, [281].
Herring, growth of the, [237].
Herring harvest, the, [263].
Herrings, calculations as to size of a shoal of, [6].
Herring spawn, [14].
Herring spawn offered for manure, [313].
Herring, the, described, [226].
Herring, the, its natural and economic history, [226].
Herring, the, shoals at Wick, [278].
Hints to the oyster-farmers, [364].
History of the herring-fishery, [49].
Hired hands at the herring-fishery, [248].
Hole Haven in Essex, lobster-stores at, [389].
Holibut, [295].
Homeward bound, [267].
Hooks, number of, on a fishing-line, [305].
How a fish breathes, [1].
How cod are cured, [293].
How does an oyster lie on its bed?, [335].
How long do herrings take to grow?, [236].
How the herrings are manipulated on arrival, [269].
How the herring-nets are worked, [249].
How the salmon-poachers proceed to work, [203].
How to buy and sell fish, [427].
How to catch cray-fish, [397].
How to angle in the sea, [159].
How to find out a false pearl, [410].
How to mark smolts, [196].
How to test a pearl, [410].
How to open the pearl-mussel, [408].
Hull trawlers, [309].
Huningue described, [82]-85.
Huningue, difficulty of finding it, [80].
Ignorance of naturalists and fishermen, [287].
Ile de Re, [352].
Illustrations of oyster-growth, [338], [339].
Imitation by fishermen of marked salmon, [197].
Importance of cheap bait, [410].
Impossibility of catching spawn in the trawl-net, [317].
Impregnation of fish-eggs, [7].
Improvement in the manufacture of herring-nets, [278].
Improvement of Scottish fishing-boats, [307].
Improvement of the salmon-fisheries, [224].
Increase in the quantity of netting used at the herring-fishery, [277], [278].
Increase of boats and fishermen, [313].
Increase of the enemies of the herring, [242].
Increase of the herring, [7].
Incubation-hall at Huningue, [84].
Incubation of oyster-ova, [337].
Industry of the women at Auchmithie, [447].
Industry at Fisherrow, [436].
Industry of Buckhaven men, [439].
Industry of fishwives, [425].
Inferiority of Doon pearls, [409].
Information about the fisher-folk, [422].
Information as to the colour and structure of pearls, [409].
Information for pearl-seekers, [408].
Information for the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, [376].
Instinct of the salmon for change, [188].
Interior of a fisherman’s house, [430].
Introduction into British waters of strange fishes, [482].
Invention of mussel-culture, [410].
Inventor of the first oyster-pond, [343].
Investigation by the Town Council of Edinburgh into the state of their oyster-beds, [376].
Irish and Welsh pearls, [407].
Irish fish-carriage, [63].
Irish haddocks, [289].
Irish lobsters, [388].
Irish oyster blue-book, [371].
Irish white-fish fisheries, [304].
Italian fable, [452].
Italian pisciculture, [71].
Italian oyster-eaters, [344].
Jack in his element, drawing of, [141].
Jacobi’s experiments in artificial fish-breeding, [74].
Johnstone on the salmon-fisheries, [216].
Joint-stock fishing system, [441].
Joint-stock oyster company at Whitstable, [366].
Juries for regulating the oyster-fisheries, [371].
Justice to upper proprietors of salmon-fisheries, [487].
Juvenile fisher-folk, [430].
Keeping adult salmon till ripe for spawning, [107].
Kelaart’s account of the pearl, [401].
Kemmerer’s, Dr., tiles for oyster-culture, [361].
Killing of grilse hurtful to the fisheries, [207].
Kinsale oysters, [374].
Kitchen at Comacchio, [460].
Knox, Dr., opinion of the parr, [182].
Labours of Gehin and Remy in pisciculture, [76].
Lake Fusaro, [348].
Land-crabs, [393].
Land of a thousand lochs, [136].
Latest achievement in pisciculture, [126].
Laws devised for self-government at Ile de Re, [357].
Legal mode of capturing the herring, [248].
Legend of the first oyster-eater, [342].
Legend of the island of Sein, [455].
Leistering salmon, [204].
Length of white-fish fishing-lines, [305].
Lent, fish required during, [277].
Line-fishing, [306].
List of authorities, [499].
List of rivers in which the best pearls have been found, [406].
Living codfish, traffic in, [302].
Living crustacea, [387].
Lobster-bait, [162].
Lobsters “in berry,” [393].
Lobster-commerce, [337].
Lobster-farming, [385].
Lobsters good for food all the year round, [398].
Localities for sea-angling, [162].
Loch Awe trout, [138].
Lochfyne herring, [28].
Lochfyne, view of, [249].
Lochleven pike, [140].
Lochleven trout, [28], [139].
Lochmaben, [27].
Logan fish-pond, [39].
London demand for shell-fish, [385].
London fish-supply, inquiries into the, [285].
London oyster-saloons, [373].
Lord Advocate’s salmon bill of 1862, [205].
Loss of the “Shamrock,” [322].
Lottery nature of the herring-fishery, [267].
Love of oysters by the ancient Romans, [380].
Lowe’s, Mr. James, opinion about the position of the oyster, [335].
Low state of the English salmon-fisheries, [217].
Luck a creed of the fishermen, [257].
Lucullus, [344].
Machinery of fish-capture, [305].
Machinery of herring-capture, [248].
Mackerel-fishery, [299].
Mackerel-growth, [21].
Mackerel, the, [299].
Madame Picard, the French fishwife, [456].
Manufactured Finnans, [290], [449].
Manufacture of sardines, [253].
March of the land-crabs, [393].
Marennes, [359].
Marine Department of France, [56].
Marked fish of the salmon kind, [197].
Marriage dinners among the fisher-class, [421].
Marriage scenes at Newhaven, [420].
Marrying and giving in marriage among the fisher-folks, [420].
Marshall, Peter, of Stormontfield, on the salmon, [195].
Martin and Gillone’s breeding establishment, [112], [113].
Mascalogne, the, or pike of America, [143].
Masculine character of the fishwife, [323].
Mathers the fisher-poet, [471].
Mayhew’s figures, [67].
Measurement of nets, [248].
Members of the herring family, [245].
Memoir on fish by a Chinaman, [70].
Methuen on the white-fisheries, [288], [480].
Methuen, the late Mr., brief sketch of his career, [259].
Microscopic observation of oyster-spat, [339].
Migration of the eel, [19].
Migration of the herring a mistake, [228].
Milton oysters, [372].
Mitchell on the distribution of the herring, [234].
Mitchell on the herring, [231].
Mode of capturing turbot, [296].
Modes of cooking oysters in New York, [381].
Mode of curing Yarmouth bloaters, etc., [271].
Mode of doing business of the Fisherrow women, [436].
Mode of dredging for oysters, [378].
Mode of fishing by line, [305].
Mode of growing the mussels in the Bay of Aiguillon, [415].
Mode of life at Comacchio, [458].
Mode of packing ova in ice, [119].
Mode of salmon-fishing on the Tay, [213].
Mode of selling fish by Newhaven women, [425].
Mode of spawning by the land-crabs, [394].
Mode of taking pilchards in Cornwall, [251].
Modes of sea-fishing in France, [57].
Money paid by curers of herring in bounty and arles, [256].
Money value of fresh-water fish in France, [92].
Money value of the Colne oysters, [370].
Monkbarns and Maggie Mucklebackit, [428].
Monkeys catching crabs, [386].
Monotonous life of the eel-breeders of Comacchio, [459].
Moral success of oyster-farming, [357].
Moray Firth ports, [302].
More boats and less fish on the Dogger Bank, [313].
More ways of killing salmon than angling, [203].
Mortality of herring, [15].
Movements of the herring at spawning time, [238].
Mr. Ramsbottom’s salmon manipulations, [102].
Multiplying power of the herring, [33].
Mussel-culture, [410].
Mussel-stakes, [411].
Mysterious fish, [26].
Narrow escape from extermination of the salmon, [475].
Natives, [368].
Natural and economic history of the oyster, [332].
Natural and economic history of the salmon, [177].
Natural enemies of the herring, [282], [283].
Natural history of the codfish, [291].
Natural history of the crustacea, [391].
Natural history of the eel, [47].
Natural history of the pearl-oyster of Ceylon, [401].
Natural history of the pilchard, [251].
Natural history of the sole, [298].
Natural history of whitebait, [23].
Naturalisation of fish in British rivers, [125].
Naturalist’s Library account of the herring, [235].
Necessity for two ponds at Stormontfield, [105].
Necessity of describing the fisher-folk, [418].
Nets, quantity used by a boat, [248].
Newbiggin, evidence by a fisherman of that place, [317].
New branch of shell-fishing, [398].
Newfoundland cod-fishery, [53].
Newhaven, [423].
Newhaven fishwives, [424].
Newhaven oyster-beds, [375].
New York, oyster-eating in, [381].
Nicknames of fishermen, [466].
Non-success of the winter herring-fishery in 1864, [275].
Northern Ensign, the, on the herring-fishery, [279].
North Sea white-fish fisheries, [304].
Norway lobsters, [389].
Note from the novel of the Antiquary, [426].
Nothing but herring, [268].
Notice of a hermit crab, [392].
Notice of Newhaven fishwives by the Queen, [429].
Notice of valuable pearls, [400].
Nova Scotia and Canadian fisheries, [54].
Number of barrels of herring caught at Wick, [278].
Number of buckies, [466].
Number of eggs in a herring, [5].
Number of men drowned on the north-east coast, [330].
Number of oyster-farms in France, [347].
Number of oysters on a fascine, [352].
Number of shells that contain pearls, [409].
Number of vessels fitted out for herring-fishery, [274].
Number of white-fish falling off, [317].
Nursing oyster-brood at Whitstable, [367].
Nursing the salmon, [15].
Objects of the English Fishery Act of 1861, [220].
Observations on fish-guano, [491].
Obvious abuses in connection with the economy of the fisheries, [284].
Occurrence at St. Monance, [434].
Oddities of the pearl-fisheries, [405].
Officer’s, Dr., account of the ova received in Australia, [120].
Official documents on the fisheries referred to, [66].
Official instructions to the herring-curer, [262].
Off to the herring, [264].
Old believers in old fish theories, [227].
One million of oysters eaten daily in Paris, [345].
Open versus decked boats, [272].
Operations of the Fishery Board, [284].
Opinion of Mr. Anderson on the salmon question, [207].
Opinion of Mr. Ffennell on the English Fishery Act of 1861, [220].
Opinions of a Billingsgate salesman, [320].
Opinions, different, about shell-fish, [333].
Orata, Sergius, [72], [343].
Organisation for supplying London with oysters, [366].
Origin of Buckhaven, [439].
Origin of Finnan haddocks, [290].
Origin of fisher colonies, [423].
Ossian, [174].
Our chief food fishes, [285].
Our Lady’s Port of Grace, [423].
Our skipper at Wick, [264].
Ova of the salmon, how it develops, [12].
Overfishing of the herring, [227].
Overfishing of the herring as pointed out by Mr. Cleghorn, [233].
Overfishing of the oyster, [347].
Overshooting, [169].
Owners of salmon fisheries on the Tay, [213].
Oyster-beds of Colne and Whitstable, [346].
Oyster-beds of Georgia, [380].
Oyster-breeding fascines, [351].
Oyster close-time, [336].
Oyster-eaters, [343].
Oyster-growth, [338].
Oyster, natural and economic history of, [332].
Oyster-parks described by Mr. Ashworth, [354].
Oyster-pyramid, [350].
Oyster-saloons of New York, [381].
Oyster-seekers, [373].
Oyster Street at Billingsgate, [374].
Oyster tiles, [363].
Oyster-women of Paris, [456].
Oysters able to move about, [342].
Oysters at one time nearly forgotten, [343].
Oysters hermaphrodite, [340].
Oysters, how they are made green, [359], [360].
Oysters in France, increase in price of, [64].
Oysters on trees, [379].
Oyster-ploys, [345].
Oysters, when in season, [336].
Packing herrings, [41].
Packing of trawled white fish, [311].
Pandore oysters, [377].
Paper on the herring read at British Association meeting, 1854, [231].
Paper on the sea fisheries of Ireland, [286].
Parr at a year old, [182].
Parr-growth, [180], [181].
Parr in salt water, [194], [195].
Parr-icide, [200].
Paris, revenue derived from fish by, [64].
Paucity of oyster-spawn during late years, [340].
Payment of fishermen on the St. Lawrence, [310].
Pearl-fisheries of Scotland, [398].
Pearl-seekers at work, [404].
Pearl-seekers, information for, [408].
Peat-smoked haddocks, [448].
Pennant’s opinion as to the haddock, [289].
Pennant’s story of the herring a myth, [228].
Percentage of salmon eggs hatched in Australia, [124].
Percentage of mussels that contain pearls, [408].
Percentage of oysters that arrive at maturity, [341].
Percentage of salmon ova that come to life, [200].
Perch, the, [151], [152].
Perforated chests for keeping lobsters alive, [387].
Perth as a centre for the angler, [213].
Periwinkle, a peep at the, [384].
Peter Marshall of Stormontfield as a pisciculturist, [111].
Petticoat government, [450].
Pickled herrings, discovery of, by the Flemings, [43].
Pictures of the Dutch fishery, [42].
Pig-feeding by means of parr, [200].
Pike, [140].
Pilchard, the, [251].
Pisciculture, [69].
Piscicultural establishment at Huningue, [76].
Pisciculture in China, [69].
Plan of a turtle-farm, [96].
Plan of cultivating oysters, [346].
Plan of fishing adopted at Yarmouth, [271].
Plan of smoking haddocks in Auchmithie, [446].
Plan of the salmon-ponds at Stormontfield, [100].
Planting and transplanting mussels, [414].
Playing a salmon, [131].
Plea for the total abolition of the brand, [263].
Plentifulness of salmon long ago, [476].
“Please to remember the grotto,” [332].
Plessix oyster-bed, [364].
Pleuronectidæ, [285], [295], [297].
Poaching as a trade, [202].
Points in the natural and economic history of the herring, [232], [233].
Ponds for fish, [38].
Pont oyster-grounds, [368].
Pooldoodies, [374].
Pope and Swift as oyster-eaters, [345].
Portessie, [321].
Powan, the, [29].
Practicability of artificial breeding on the Severn, [219].
Practical nature of French fish-culture, [95].
Prawn-catching, [396].
Prawns and shrimps, [395].
Preparation of the eels at Comacchio, [462].
Present price of haddocks, [288].
Prestonpans, [437].
Price of fish in France, [62].
Progress of Beef’s oyster-farm on the Ile de Re, [353].
Progress of herring growth, [237].
Progress of salmon growth, [179].
Progress of the parr, [105].
Progress of the ova in Australian waters, [122].
Progress of the people of Fittie, [451].
Proper stock of fish for the Severn, [218].
Proper time to shoot the nets, [265].
Proposal for a jubilee on the Severn, [218].
Proposal for a tax on the boats, [284].
Proportion of netting used and herring taken, [282].
Proportions of meat and shell in the oyster, [341].
Proposal to make each salmon river a joint-stock property, [223].
Proposal to note growth of sea-fish in a marine observatory, [17].
Proposal to sell the herring as they are caught, [257].
Prosperity of the fisher-folk, [440].
Price paid for pearls, [405].
Price of three haddocks in 1790, [288].
Primitive hatching apparatus, [115].
Primrose, Hon. Mr. Bouverie, [485].
Principal changes introduced by Tweed Acts, [216].
Private oyster-layings, [371].
Probable extinction of the Firth of Forth oyster-beds, [375].
Problem in salmon life by the Ettrick Shepherd, [185].
Process of curing the herring, [261].
Process of gutting the herring, [269].
Produce of the oyster greening claires, [361].
Productive power of shell-fish, [382].
Productiveness of artificial system, [90].
Profile of the ponds at Stormontfield, [101].
Profit of Beef’s oyster-farm, [353].
Profits of oyster-farming, [372].
Prosperity of the oyster-growers, [358].
Provisions of the salmon and trout Act of 1861, [221].
Public writers on the British fisheries, [474].
Pulteneytown heights, [264].
Pulteneytown quay, scene at, [267].
Purchasers of Scottish pearls, [403].
Quaint fishing villages of Normandy and Brittany, [454].
Qualifications of an angler, [135].
Quality of the herring captured in 1862, [276].
Quantity of herring branded in 1862, [273].
Quantity of netting employed in the herring-fishery, [277].
Quantity of pilchards sometimes obtained, [252].
Quantity of spawn from each oyster, [339].
Queensferry, whitebait ground near, [22].
Question of fish growth, [16].
Rapid growth of oyster-culture in Ile de Re, [352].
Rapid hatching of herring ova, [236].
Rapid transit, effect of, on the fisheries, [36].
Rapidity of salmon growth, [196].
Ravages of the herring shoals by codfish, [282].
Raw oysters the best for the stomach, [346].
Reasons of the fishermen for marrying on Friday, [420].
Recent fishing Acts for England, [219].
Recent reports of the Inspectors of English fisheries, [217].
Re-discovery of pisciculture, [73].
Red-letter days of August, [332].
Reel o’ Collieston, [422].
Regulation of British salmon-fisheries, [487].
Regulation of salmon-rivers, [488].
Regulation of the Scottish herring-fisheries, [484].
Relation between upper and lower proprietors of salmon rivers, [222].
Relation of the curer to the fishermen, [255].
Remedies for failing salmon supplies, [225].
Remy, the re-discoverer of pisciculture, [73].
Rental of French fisheries, [91].
Rental of Firth of Forth oyster-beds, [375].
Report of the Lochfyne commissioners on the herring, [235].
Reprehensible feature in herring commerce, [256].
Reproductive power of the oyster, [338].
Reproductive power of the oyster in green claires, [260].
Return from the beds on the Ile de Re, [356].
Revenue anticipated from licences on English rivers, [221].
Revenue from fish to the city of Paris, [64].
Revenue from oysters grown in Lake Fusaro, [349].
Revival of pearl-seeking in Scotland, [402].
Rev. Mr. Williamson on the double migration of salmon, [194].
Rhine salmon, [201].
Richmond’s, Duke of, salmon-fisheries, [215].
Rights of fishing in France, [91].
Rise in price of oysters at Ile de Re, [358].
Rise in the price of white fish, [301].
Rise of a herring-curer, [259].
River cray-fish, [397].
River Doon pearl-fever, [404].
Rivers of France, the, [73].
Roaming fish, [32].
Robertson’s Tweed salmon tables, [217].
Rockall fishery, [303].
Roe of the cod used in sardine-fishery, [254].
Round of labour at Auchmithie, [446].
Routine of oyster-work at Whitstable, [369].
Roxburghe, Duke of, as an angler, [130].
Salmo Ferox, [138].
Salmon a day or two old, [14].
Salmon and herring contrasted, [15].
Salmon-angling in the north of Scotland, [131].
Salmon-culture, [102].
Salmon-beds in the tributaries of the Tay, [209].
Salmon, commercial value of, [199].
Salmon, double migration of, [193].
Salmon egg, description of a, [10].
Salmon-growth versus cod-growth, [20].
Salmon in Australia, [118].
Salmon, natural and economic history of the, [177].
Salmon ova, period required to hatch, [13].
Salmon, progress of, in coming to life, [12].
Salmon-poaching, [202].
Salmon rivers, regulation of, [488].
Salmon, what do they eat? [192].
Salmon-watcher’s tower on the Rhine, [201].
Salting eels at Comacchio, [461].
Sardine-fishery in Brittany, [59], [253].
Scarcity of white fish, [313].
Scattering of oyster-spat, [337].
Scene in a Scottish herring-curer’s office, [469].
Scene in the Buckie small-debt court, [468].
Scene of Sir Walter Scott’s Antiquary, [444].
Scene on the waters, [265].
Scenes on the coast, [444].
Scenery on the Tay, [211].
Scientific and commercial fish-culture, [75].
Scotch name for the turbot, [297].
Scotch pearls in the middle ages, [402].
Scotland for trout, [134].
Scottish chap-books, [439].
Scottish fishing boats all open, [307].
Scottish fishing villages, glance at, [422].
Scottish herring-fishery, [50].
Scottish oyster-eaters, [345].
Scottish pearl-fisheries, [398].
Scottish prejudice against eels, [19].
Scottish salmon-streams, [209].
Scovell’s lobster-pond, [388].
Sea-angling, [154].
Sea-fish, proposal to note growth of, [17].
Sea-perch, [153].
Season for lobsters, [397].
Secret of oyster-culture, [346].
September fishery at Wick, [281].
September the right month for inaugurating the oyster season, [333].
Sergius Orata, [72], [343].
Series of ponds for artificial breeding on the Severn, [219].
Set-line fishing, [160].
Severn, the, [218].
Severn, suggestion for a pond on the, [116].
Sex of the oyster, [340].
Sexual instinct of fish, [10].
Shaking the herring out of the nets, [267].
Shape of a dredge, [378].
Shape of fish, [3].
Shad, [25].
Shaw of Drumlanrig, [74].
Shaw’s parr experiments, [185], [186].
Shell-fish fisheries, [382].
Short and simple annals of the fisher-folk, [462].
Shooting the nets, [265], [266].
Should there be a close-time for herring? [241], [242].
Shrimp-eggs, [383].
Shrimps and prawns, [395].
Shrimpers at work, [395].
Sickening of oysters, [336].
Signs and tokens among the fisher-people, [453].
Silurus glanis, [126]-128.
Silver eel, the, [18].
Sillock-fishing in Shetland, [294].
Size and weight of salmon diminishing, [206], [207].
Size of oysters, [341].
Size of the codfish, [291].
Skate-liver oil, [293].
Sketch of fisher-life in the Antiquary, [429].
Sketch of the river Tay, [210], [211].
Slaughter of small-sized fish, [320].
Smaller varieties of the flat-fish, [298].
Smelling power of fish, [3].
Smolt and grilse, [187].
Smolt exodus of 1861, [110].
Smolt growth, [180], [181].
Social condition of the Newhaven fisher-folk, [430].
Social history of the oyster, [342].
Société d’Ecorage in France, [60].
Society of Free Fishermen at Newhaven, [377].
Soft crabs, [393].
Soles of a moderate weight best for the table, [298].
Sole, the, [298].
Song sung by the dredgers, [379].
Sophisticated oysters, [374].
Source of the Tay, [210].
Sowing and planting mussels, [414].
Spat-collecting tiles, [363].
Spawn of herring just hatched, [14].
Spawning at Tongueland, [114].
Spawning of oysters, [337].
Spawning periods of the herring, [236].
Spear for killing flat fish, [161].
Spearing flat fish, [161].
Spey, the, as a salmon stream, [214].
Sprat-controversy, [237], [239].
Sprat-fishery, [253].
Stake and bag nets, [208].
Stake-nets on the river Solway, [208].
Stakes on which to grow oysters, [364].
State of knowledge in Newhaven sixty years ago, [431].
Statements of trawlers, [314].
Statistics of boats and herring ports, [275].
Statistics of Colne oyster-beds, [370].
Statistics of English oyster-grounds, [367].
Statistics of Newfoundland fishery, [54].
Statistics of oyster-culture in the Ile de Re, [356].
Statistics of oyster-growth in Ile de Re, [365].
Statistics of rent and produce of fisheries on Tay, [213].
Statistics of Tweed fisheries, [217].
Statistics of Wick Herring-Fishery, 1865, [502].
St. James’s Day for oysters, [333].
Steamboat travelling, [443].
Steuart of Colpetty on the pearl, [400].
Stock of breeding fish proper for Tay, [214].
Stock of fish kept by Lucullus, [71].
Stoddart’s calculations as to salmon growth, [111], [200].
Store-boxes for crabs and lobsters, [387].
Stories about the pike, [142].
Storm scenes on the Moray Firth, [328].
Storm of October 1864, [322].
Stormontfield, proceedings at, [13].
Striking example of the effect of bag-nets on the Tay, [206].
Summer time of Wick’s existence, [247].
Superstition as to the name of Ross, [468].
Superstition of the fisher-folk, [432].
Supposed migration of turbot, [296].
Supposed spawn of turbot, [286].
Sutherland lochs, [136].
Table of oyster reproduction, [371].
Tabular view of the August and September herring-fishery at Wick, [280], [281].
Tabular view of the fish seasons, [300].
Tabular view of the herring-harvest of 1862, [276].
Tackle for sea-angling, [157].
Tay before and after stake-nets, [214].
Tay, the, as a salmon stream, [209].
Tay, the river, its fish and commerce, [79].
Tax on oysters at Billingsgate, [374].
“Tee”-names, [466].
Templeman’s evidence, [313].
Temperature of the river Plenty in Australia, [121].
Tempest on the Moray Firth, [325].
Thames and other anglers, [130], [151].
Thames, attempts to re-stock that river with fish, [24].
Thames, the, [148], [149].
The bounty system in the herring-fishery, [256].
The cause of the migratory habits of salmon, [194].
The cook and the grouse, [287].
The Dead Man’s Ferry, [455].
The dredging song, [379].
The eastern pearl-fishery, [400].
The first oyster-eater, [342].
The first oyster eaten as a punishment, [343].
The herring-fishery, preparations for, [246].
The food of fishes, [31].
The greening of oysters, [359], [360].
The herring a local fish, [229].
The herring-fishery a lottery, [257].
The latest English salmon Act, [221].
The laird and the laddie, an anecdote, [406].
“The man in the black coat,” [433].
The mussel as food, [416].
Theories about eels, [18].
Theory as to the growth of smolts, [196].
The pearl-fever on the Doon, [403].
The pearl-mussel, [398].
The pearl shell-fish, [398].
The present Fishery Board, [263].
The senses of fish, [3].
The women of Auchmithie, [446].
The world of fish depicted, [394].
Thinning the mussels, [415].
Tiber, fish of the, [72].
Tiles for receiving the spat of oysters, [363].
Time of fishing for herring, [245].
Time required for hatching herring-ova, [239].
Time when the lobster becomes reproductive, [391].
Torbay fisherman, evidence by a, [315].
Total catch of Herrings for 1865, [503].
Tour among the Scottish fisher-folk, [419].
Tourist talk about fish, [78].
Town of Comacchio, [459].
Trade in shrimps, [397].
Traffic in living codfish, [302].
Transformation of herring-gutters, [270].
Travelling in France, [78].
Trawled fish not fit for market, [314].
Trawler, a, [309].
Trawling at particular places exhausts the shoals, [312].
Trawling for herrings, [249].
Trawling increases the fish, [316].
Trawling on the French coast, [57].
Trawl question, the, [308].
Trout produced at five centimes each, [94].
Trout, the, [133].
Tummel, river, [210].
Turbot, [296].
Turbot fishing, [315].
Turbot, natural history of the, [287].
Turtle-culture, [96].
Tweed Acts of 1857-59, [216].
Tweed poachers, [203].
Tweed tables of weight and size, [207].
Twelve fish for a penny, [89].
Unchangeable nature of the fishing class, [425].
Unger’s revival of the Scottish pearl-fishery, [402].
Unparalleled destruction of the seed of fish, [243].
Upper proprietors of salmon-fisheries, [487].
Uses of the codfish, [292].
Uses of the sillock, [295].
Use of the trawl-net in turning up food for the fish, [316].
Value of a cod-roe, [292].
Value of boats and nets lost in the storm of 1848, [330].
Value of early-caught herring, [258].
Value of mussels at Aiguillon, [417].
Value of salmon at present, [477].
Value of Scottish pearls, [403].
Value of the close-time for salmon, [201].
Value of the oyster stock at Whitstable, [366].
Varied manipulation at Stormontfield, [105].
Varieties of cod, [294].
Varieties of crustacea, [383].
Varieties of fish suitable to breed in ponds, [39].
Various modes of catching crabs, [386].
Various ways of fishing for the pearl-mussel, [405].
Vendace, the, [26].
View of a herring-curing yard, [261].
View of a mussel-farm, [412].
View of Huningue, [83].
View of oyster-claires, [357].
View of oyster-parks, [355].
Village of Auchmithie, [445].
Virginia oyster-beds, [380].
Virtues of “cauld iron,” [433].
Visit of the smolts to the sea, [190].
Vivian, Mr., of Hull, on trawling, [311].
Viviparous fish, [16].
Voracity of pike, [142].
Wages at Comacchio, [458].
Waiting for the fish to strike, [266].
Walter Scott on the fishwives, [426].
Walton’s plan of hurdles for the culture of mussels, [411].
Want of a close-time a great fish-destroying agency, [243].
Want of harbour accommodation, [302].
Want of more knowledge about our shell-fish, [382].
Want of precise information as to fish-growth, [16].
Warnings, [453].
Waste places in England suitable for fish-culture, [116].
Weather during the fishing of 1862, [276].
Weather prophecies of the Board of Trade, [331].
Weight of trout, [133].
Welled boats, [306].
Welsh and Irish pearls, [407].
Whale-fishery, the, [55].
What has been accomplished at Stormontfield, [109].
What do salmon eat? [192].
What we desire to know of all fish, [21].
What will be the future of the British fisheries? [481].
When do oysters become reproductive? [339].
When do turbot spawn? [287].
When Gadidæ are in season, [286].
When herring are in best condition, [240].
When should herring be captured? [241].
When white fish are in season, [300].
Where are the haddocks? [30], [288].
Where the best turbot are got, [296].
Where the oyster spawn goes, [340].
“Whiskered pandores,” [377].
Whitebait, [22].
Whitebait found in many rivers, [22].
Whitebait poor eating, [23].
White-fish fisheries, the, [285].
White-fish fisheries of Ireland, [304].
White fish when in season, [299].
Whitehills harbour, [321].
Whiting, the, [294].
Whitstable, [366].
Who was Ossian? [174].
Wick during the herring season, [268].
Williamson, Rev. D., on the salmon, [193].
Winter fishing at Wick, [274].
“Wise Willy and Witty Eppie,” [439].
Wives of the oyster-farmers, [362].
Wolfsbrunnen trout-pond, [39].
Woodhaven salmon station, [212].
Working a mussel-farm, [416].
Working an oyster-bed, [368].
World of fish, the, [394].
Yarmouth, [271].
Yarmouth boats, their size and cost, [271].
Yarmouth, the great fishery at, [49].
Yarrell’s account of the herring, [231].
Yarrell’s and Buist’s opinion about the parr, [183].
Young’s experiments on the parr, [186].
Yield of a bouchot, [416].

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