326 DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN POLLAN AND GRAYLING. 



By tlie Freshwater Fisheries Acts, 41 and 42 Yict. 

 cap. 39, it is illegal — 



"1. To fish for, catch, or attempt to catch or kill, 

 trout or cliarr cluriug the close season hetween 2nd 

 October and 1st February following, or during any close 

 season which by bye-law may be substituted for the 

 same. 



"Note. — It is already illegal to buy, sell, or expose for 

 sale, or lia,ve in possession for sale, trout or charr, be- 

 tween 2nd October and 1st of February following (36 

 and 37 Vict., c. 71, s. 20)." 



An abstract of the Freshwater Fisheries Act, which 

 the Home Office has widely circulated, is found in 

 p. 376 of this book. 



POLLAN. 



[Corc(jonus jiollan.) 



German: Die Bodenrenke, Sandfelchen, Blailling. 



At a meeting of the Manchester Angling Association 

 held in March, 1879, an interesting paper was read by 

 Dr. Simpson on a comparison between the Pollan of 

 Ireland and th^ Grayling, of which the following is an 

 abstract : "In the spring of the year there are usually 

 in the market a large number of bright silvery fish 

 which the fishmongers call grayling, or freshwater 

 herrings. These are principally taken from Lough 

 Neagh, in Ireland, and known there as pollan. These 

 fish bear a strong likeness to the grayling, but there 

 are many points of difference. First, the scales of the 

 pollan have not the glistening nacreous sheen of the 

 grayling, being browaier, as if sprinkled over with dust. 

 Second, the pattern formed by the coalescing of the 

 adjoining scales is different in the two, and the line 



