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VENDACE , the name of a See also:British See also:freshwater See also:fish of the genus Coregonus, of which two other See also:species are indigenous in the fresh See also:waters of the British Islands, the See also:gwyniad and the See also:pollan. The vendace (C. vandesius) is restricted to some lochs in See also:Dumfriesshire, See also:Scotland; it is, however, very similar to a species (C. albula) which inhabits some of the large and deep lakes of See also:northern See also:Europe. From its See also:general resemblance to a See also:dace the See also:French name of the latter, vandoise, was transferred to it at the See also:period when French was the See also:language of the See also:court and See also:aristocracy of Scotland. So See also:great is the See also:local celebrity of the fish that a See also:story has been invented ascribing to See also:Mary See also:Queen of Scots the merit of having introduced it into the Lochmaben lochs. It is considered a great delicacy, and on favourable days when the shoals rise to the See also:surface, near the edges of the See also:loch, great See also:numbers may be taken. ' It spawns in See also:November. In length it scarcely exceeds 8 in. End of Article: VENDACEAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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