heppern.
A local name of a smolt, or young salmon of the second year.
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1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, salmon..pink, last spring, hepper, last brood, gravelling..or by any other local name.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 69 From one to two years old before it..has gone to the sea it is known as a..skegger, gravelling, hepper..in Wales.
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