Also 8 finnac(k, -eck, -ock, 8–9 phin(n)ock. [a. Gael. fionnag, f. fionn white.] ‘A white trout, a variety of the Salmo fario’ (Jam.).
1771. Pennant, Tour Scotl. (1794), 230. Phinocs are taken here in great numbers, 1500 having been taken at a draught.
1792. Statist. Acc. Scotl., III. 360. A trout called a finneck, which appears in the months of July and August, and disappears towards the end of September.
1834. Jardine, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. No. 2. 51. This fish I consider to be the S. albus of Fleming, the Herling or Hirling of the Scotch side of the Solway Frith, the Whiting of the English side, and by which name it is also known in the Eden and Esk, the Phinnock of the north and west of Scotland, the White or Phinnock of Pennant, and the Silver White of the Tweed tacksmen.
c. 1850. Nat. Encycl., I. 38. The river [Ythan] abounds with trout, finnock, eels, flounders, and salmon.
