Sentences with phrase «by small fish»

The plankton produce domoic acid and are eaten by small fish such as herring and anchovies.

They remain in the water supply, where they're often eaten by small fish, even zooplankton.

After being absorbed by plankton, the mercury moves up the food chain: The plankton is eaten by small fish, which are then gobbled up by larger predators, each bigger animal accumulating more mercury with every meal.

However, the proportion of catch which is discarded has increased from around 25 % to 35 %, because catches have become increasingly dominated by small fish.

All water is bought to the property by small fishing boat from Lombok.

Nusa Lembongan has three world class surf breaks, all easily accessable from the beach or at low tide by small fishing boats.

India's financial capital, located on the west coast, originally consisted of seven individual islands inhabited by small fishing communities, which have since joined together and grown into this cosmopolitan city.

These 2 beachfront vacation rental homes are located on the beach by the small fishing village of Cabuya, only 7 km South of the village of Montezuma and 7 km East of Mal Pais.

But a concern of many scientists is the fact that much smaller pieces of plastic are ingested by smaller fish, which are eaten by medium fish, which are eaten by larger fish, which are eaten by us.

Not exact matches

The book, Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which Kalin read with the careful intonation of an elementary school teacher, is about a small fish that bands together with other fish to scare away a hungry tuna.

That's one compelling option to work around the limitations of your local labor market, but if you're a smaller firm and providing such training would stretch your resources, a new survey from online hiring platform Elance suggests another solution — broaden the talent pool in which you're fishing by hiring online contractors.

TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay — recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.

Add to that the fact that he lives in a small town where he lives life in a fish bowl... his every move is scrutinized just by the fact that he lives in such an area.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

I also do nt see much that they have created, or that they could stop time or know how to cure the common cold or something small as knowing all the fish by species in our seas.

The small fishing community has been hammered by the oil spill.

Two - thirds of the caught fish that humans eat are taken by small - scale fishers, many of whom use canoes carved from logs or stationary beach seine nets, such as the rampani that dot India's eastern coast.

The first time Juan visited Singapore, we took him to Seafood International, a nice restaurant by the sea which had tanks full of live fish and seafood, and where the menu was not a small booklet but an entire aquarium.

Put a small fork by the bowls, to fish out the dunked discs.

Edited by Molly S. Wales — Photos by Dry Creek Kitchen Recipes: Parsley and Garlic Crusted Quailwith Heirloom Tomatoes Marinated Vegetables for the Grill Renowned chef Mark Purdy's education began early, on the small island of Nantucket where he and his brother caught blue fish at the beach down the street from their summer home.

Inspired by an ancient Celtic myth, the «Hawk of Achill» spot is set in a small fishing village on Achill, a rugged island — steeped in folklore and myth — off the coast of Ireland.

Make the dressing by whisking together the vegan fish sauce, lime juice, zest, sugar, sriracha, and salt in a small bowl.

Prepare the nuoc cham sauce by combining the red chilli, fish sauce, lime juice and coconut sugar in a small bowl and whisking until the sugar has dissolved.

On the way there we passed by a small house which had been pointed out to us as the local fish market.

Place the coconut milk, chilli, garlic, lemongrass and fish sauce in a small saucepan and heat until reduced by half.

Make the salad dressing by combining the lime juice, brown sugar, fish sauce, sambal oelek, and sesame oil in a small bowl, stirring to combine.

If he left for to join the Tigers, he would be a big fish in a small pond, but at least he would be in the Premier League and he is dearly loved by the KC faithful.

His new habitat at the Etihad Stadium has seen Bony surrounded by metaphorically bigger, although physically smaller, fish and he genuinely looks out of place in the City squad.

And for those with staying power but not quite the talent to tackle a homemade Tancook Whaler, the magazine has published a step - by - step account of how to build a small, graceful round - bottomed boat just for fly - fishing: lofting, backbone setup, planking, framing, trim and finish — 212 hours and $ 450 worth of materials.

Guided, in part, by some earlier work by Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, of the University of Washington School of Fisheries, and Thor Gudjonsson (a former graduate student, now Director of Fisheries Research for Iceland), Pautzke force - feeds his small fish and brings them to the sea - going stage in one year instead of two.

Pacific salmon have never surmounted Shipherd's Falls, a roaring, 60 - foot cataract in Washington's Wind River (although they now negotiate it by fish ladder), but the Steelhead is able to pick his way up by leaping from one small pocket of water, four, five or six feet to the next, often jumping at odd angles to hit the targets he must sense but can not possibly see as he launches himself.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

Im not denigrating anything Ronda accomplished, but let's be honest, it was a relatively new sport and she was a big fish in a small pound and women fighters improved by leaps and bounds.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

Seniors can stretch their grocery budget by keeping meat, poultry and fish portions small, while adding less expensive protein sources such as eggs, peanut butter, legumes and dairy products to the diet, MacInnis said.

At least 50 residents were on Tuesday rounded up by a team of armed military and police personnel deployed to the small Central Regional town to fish for the murderers of Army Captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama.

Furthermore, weapons such as large cannon and torpedoes are virtually useless against vessels such as the skiffs, small fishing vessels and fast motor vessels most commonly used by pirates these days.

That is, small fish (fishermen) eaten by bigger fish (poachers) eaten by bigger fish (pirates) eaten by bigger fish (foreign navies).

But the groups formed by those guppies were on average smaller than the groups formed by the fish that were not exposed to predators.

To try to develop a more sensitive probe for isolating individual peptides — short strands of amino acids — from a pool of similar molecules, a team led by chemist Clark Still of Columbia University 4 years ago synthesized small organic compounds that selectively fish out peptides dissolved in chloroform.

Small amounts of dairy and fruit make up the tip, followed by increasingly large layers of fish and meat, vegetables, and grains.

Fugu — the poisonous puffer fish sought after by brave suchi - eaters — has the smallest known vertebrate genome.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

By experimenting with different forms of acoustic signals, he found that a large pulse followed by a small one could reflect sound waves in such a way as to allow fish and bubbles to be easily distinguisheBy experimenting with different forms of acoustic signals, he found that a large pulse followed by a small one could reflect sound waves in such a way as to allow fish and bubbles to be easily distinguisheby a small one could reflect sound waves in such a way as to allow fish and bubbles to be easily distinguished.

In 1327, an 802 - kilogram parcel of Greenland tusks was worth a small fortune — the equivalent of roughly 780 cows or 60 tons of dried fish, according to tithing records analyzed in 2010 by University of Oslo archaeologist Christian Keller.

While there is not much evidence of cyanide - caught fish poisoning the people who eat it — the dose retained by a fish after being puffed is relatively small — the risk nevertheless remains, especially for those who ingest a lot of it.

Near Glen Canyon Dam, the researchers found food webs dominated by invasive New Zealand mud snails and non-native rainbow trout, with large mismatches in the food web and only a small percentage of available invertebrates eaten by fish.

In the simple fermentation, the proportion of salt is usually enough by itself to preserve the fish from spoilage, and bacteria are important mainly as flavor modifiers.But in the mixed fermentation, a smaller dose of salt preserves the fish for just a few weeks while the plant - based ingredients feed the same microbes that sour milk or turn grape juice into wine.

The tanks were divided horizontally by a false bottom with holes big enough to let a population of water fleas swim freely — but too small to let fish leave the bottom part of the tanks.

Despite the seemingly large number of tiny fish that fishermen and regulators thought were going to waste, the number was small compared to death by non-human predators and lack of plankton and other food sources.