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PEAL. 



SALMON PEAL. BULL TROUT f 



This fish is to be distinguislied from one that is called the 

 Salmon Peal in the fish shops of London; which is an early 

 stage of the Salmon. 



Sahno Trntta, LiNNiETis. Fleming; Br. Animalg, p. 180. 



The Scurf, Bull Trout, 



Trutta Salmonata, Willougiiby; p. 193. Jenyns; Manual, p. 423. 



Sahno Trutta, Yahrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 77. 



The Peal in its habits bears much likeness to the Salmon, 

 as it does also in no small degree in form ; but with this 

 there exists also so much contrariety, that it has been observed 

 where one abounds the other becomes scarce; and if from any 

 cause, except indeed from that which is too common in some 

 parts of England, the presence of mineral water, or the refuse 

 of poisonous manufactures in the river, the Salmon is driven 

 to forsake it, this fish presently resorts to it in increasing 

 numbers; but they for the most part quit it again if Salmon 

 again become abundant. 



When speaking of the Salmon it was remarked that the 

 place of resort of this tribe of fishes when at sea is scarcely 

 knoAvn; but less uncertainty exists as regards the wnnderings 

 of the Peal, since so early in the spring as March or April, 

 and still more frequently in May it is often caught, but usually 

 as single individuals, in the drift-nets shot for Mackarel at 

 about the middle of the entrance of the British Channel; where 

 it is in the course of migration towards the land, and nearer 

 to which it approaches as the season advances. As these nets 

 are made to float at but a small depth where the water is 



