different between piscatory vs piscatorial

English

From Latin pisc?tor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

piscatory (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
  The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.
Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 4,
  The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it.

From Latin pisc?tor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

piscatorial (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
- 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings, ch 41:
  There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.
- 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, pg. 38:
  That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
- 2005, "Mercedes goes back to nature for dynamic inspiration", Times Online, London, 25 Nov (retrieved 2 July 2007):
  The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.
- 2007, "Atlantic salmon: Ruler of the river," The Economist, vol. 385, no. 8560 (22 Dec.), p. 139:
  There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.

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