Sentences with phrase «baitfish in»

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These seamounts, or underwater mountains, rise more than a thousand feet off the ocean floor, triggering a natural upwelling of nutrient - rich seawater that in turn attracts baitfish and the open - sea predators that feed upon them.

It's home to millions of baitfish, crabs, shrimp, and other small aquatics, serving as the first link in the undersea food chain that supports the most abundant marine life in the Caribbean.

The complicated ecosystem of the reef supplies food and shelter to a huge variety of baitfish and small crustaceans that, in turn, attract larger predators.

Gray whales, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), are stated to feed primarily on swarming mysids, commonly called opossum shrimps, tube - dwelling amphipods, and polychaete tube worms in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food (crab larvae, mobile amphipods, herring eggs and larvae, cephalopods, and megalops) opportunistically or off the main feeding grounds.

Its superstructure rises to 50 feet and is often engulfed in schools of baitfish, rainbow runners and patrolling snappers.

Baleen whales completely lack teeth and filter small prey such as plankton, worms, and baitfish from the water using rows of baleen arranged in their mouths like sieves.

Also, as mentioned in our previous blog, the crucial baitfish species that they are utterly dependent on for survival are all declining in drastic and alarming ways in the past couple of decades.

In the shallows, jacks and trevallies are hunting the baitfish and big Napolean wrasse are found.

I get that say a pier with a permanent light might well attract baitfish at night which in turn attracts predators, but I feel a whole lot comfortable fishing a quiet beach somewhere if as much of my fishing is done in darkness.