PEAL. i?07 



blotches formed by the darker crossing of the scales; dorsal 

 till spotted: ventrals with nine rays, caudal nineteen. 



Convictions are not unfrequent, for taking Salmon with too 

 small a mesh in the open sea. when the only proof has been 

 ■aat the Peal has been thus caught: and that too at the onlv 

 season when this could be caaght, and with the onlv net that 

 could take it. 



