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PARR, PINK, or GRAVELING. Young fish with 

 parr-marks, ranging up to 6 or 7, or, ex- 

 ceptionally, as much as 9 or 10 inches in length, 

 living in fresh water until they are about two and 

 a quarter years old, rarely more or less, 



SMOLTS. Young fish preparing to descend to 

 the sea or actually on their way there, with the 

 parr-marks obscured by a bright silvery livery, 

 usually about two and a quarter years old, and 

 about 6 inches long. 



GRILSE or SALMON PEAL. Fish normally 

 from three to three and a half years old, which 

 went to the sea as smolts in the preceding season ; 

 rarely weighing less than I ^ or more than I o Ibs. ; 

 a large number of grilse enter the rivers during 

 the summer months in order to spawn in the 

 autumn. 



SALMON. Older fish which have either spawned 

 as grilse or have passed through the grilse stage in 

 the sea ; according to the season when they enter 

 the rivers they are known as Spring, Summer, 

 Autumn, and Winter Salmon-, Winter Salmon, how- 

 ever, may be divided into Late Autumn Salmon, 

 unclean fish which spawn as soon as they enter 

 fresh water, and Early Spring Salmon, clean fish 

 which do not spawn until the following autumn. 



MAIDEN SALMON. Fish which have never 

 spawned and are entering fresh water for the first 

 time. 



DROPPERS. Winter or early spring Salmon 

 which drop back to the sea and reascend later in 

 the season. 



FRESH-RUN FISH. Fish which have recently 

 entered fresh water. 



