Sentences with phrase «larger than fish»

Cinner's team measured the fish being caught and found that they were larger than fish caught in other parts of the reef — just what the locals had told them.

Remove from the marinade and transfer the salmon to a sheet of heavy - duty foil cut about 2 inches larger than fish all around; bend edges up to make lip around the fish.

Not exact matches

«The footprint of industrial fishing in the ocean is over four times larger than the land area occupied by agriculture.»

«Errors occurred in the fish tank, because the spill was installed in a manner that resulted in a large amount of dispersion at the outset, due to air ingestion, and the resulting slick was larger than the ruler and developed an asymmetric form.»

In less than five minutes he had caught a large fish.

The marine fish catch was thirty - five times larger at the end of the century than at the beginning.

The company already is one of the largest importers of octopus from Spain and Portugal, and Weitzer says Arista Industries continues to look for sources that can bring more than shrimp and fish to the table.

«For instance, our fish - cutting room is four times larger than what we had before.»

TIPS: use skinny asparagus — it's more tender; to peel ginger root before grating, use the back of a spoon and scrape it off rather than use a sharp knife; after grating the ginger, it tends to stick to the grater — to release, hold the grater over the fish and bang the grater against something solid like the side of a pan or dull side of a large chef's knife, and it will spatter haphazardly over the fish, which is what you want.

Roasting a large fish fillet whole (rather than in portions) is a great way to serve a small crowd.

I live in the Mid East - I grow my own fresh Zaatar leaves - then make the dried spice mixture later in the season - the actual zaatar leaves look like fuzzy thyme leaves - they grow closer to the ground, and are larger than regular thyme - delicious fresh in salads and roasted whole fish..

Tyson Foods, the nation's largest chicken producer, has taken «full responsibility» for accidentally releasing an acidic chemical used in chicken feed into the city of Monett, Missouri's wastewater treatment system that resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 fish.

Korean food markets in the Dallas area carry many of the same products, although you might be surprised at the number, type, and variety available: cans of sweetened red beans, big bags of frozen dumplings, whole heads of pickled garlic, jars of bright red hot - pepper paste, packages of dried zucchini, giant fresh Korean pears the size of large grapefruits, fresh soy and mung bean sprouts, salted fish, several kinds of rice (from white to beige to black), and more types of packaged dried noodles than you probably ever knew existed.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

More in hope than anticipation, I had slung out a large and particularly smelly lump of cheese on a heavy line with a lead weight into a near bank glide and left the rod to fish for itself, while I concentrated on trying to catch something on my more subtle float fishing tackle.

He said some social interventions the NDC government had undertaken to improve the sector include the distribution of more than 2,000 subsidised outboard motors to fishermen, the expansion of the Bosumtwi - Sam Fishing Harbour which would enable large fishing vessels toFishing Harbour which would enable large fishing vessels tofishing vessels to berth.

If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres — giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly — you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man - of - war — and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.

Female mosquitofish (top row) are larger than males and often display a distended abdomen due to pregnancy (mosquitofish are live - bearing fishes).

Prices for the fish have skyrocketed as individual bluefin have become fewer and smaller — a single healthy - sized adult today can easily fetch more than $ 100,000 in Tokyo's largest fish market.

Previous studies have documented the impact of plastic debris on more than 660 marine species — from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined for the seafood market — but none have quantified the worldwide amount entering the ocean from land.

Anatomy confirms what behavior reveals: Octopuses and cuttlefish have larger brains, relative to body weight, than most fish and reptiles, larger on average than any animals save birds and mammals.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

«Fish lasts nearly twice as long in a 32 °F slush as it does at typical refrigerator temperatures,» says McGee, who recommends flaked or finely chopped ice because it makes better contact with contours than large cubes or slabs.

In Brazil, several dozen dams are planned along the Amazon, Madeira and Xingu rivers — an area that teems with more than 5,000 species of fish, and where some of the largest hydropower projects in the world are being built.

«Africa is the last place on Earth with a wide range of large mammals, yet today there are more African plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and large mammals threatened than ever before by a range of both human - induced and natural causes.»

Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton.

The zone, which at about 5,000 square miles (13,000 sq km) is the second largest in the world but still smaller than in previous years, is so named because it contains no oxygen, or too little, at the Gulf floor to support bottom - dwelling fish and shrimp.

Observations revealed that D. villosus took a far greater toll on the other species in its tank than did G. duebeni, killing and mangling large numbers of blue - tailed damselflies, water boatmen, fish leeches and water hoglice.

Economically effective management, access to high - value markets and having other income opportunities often play a larger role in human outcomes than stock health, especially in communities where fishing is a large share of the economy.»

That's far less than a previous estimate of 95 % of the oceans, suggesting that large areas could become marine reserves without much economic cost to fishing.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

An independent, large - scale study in Sweden found that teenage males who eat fish weekly have intelligence scores 7 percent higher than do those who eat fish less often.

A team of researchers, including Colorado State University Professor Kurt Fausch and Jeff Falke, a CSU alumnus and an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, have discovered that more than half a century of groundwater pumping from the aquifer has led to long segments of rivers drying up and the collapse of large - stream fishes.

«Although in our study we used much larger amounts of nanoplastic than those present in oceans today, we suspect that plastic particles may be accumulated inside the fish.

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 16 pounds.

«This is because the seals are eating much smaller fish than the larger, mature specimens that fishermen are required by law to catch.

«Since birds and fish are older evolutionarily than mammals, prolactin's larger role beyond just feeding offspring tells us prolactin has evolved to become more specialized for lactation behaviors in mammals,» she said.

The now - smaller individuals produced fewer and smaller eggs and offspring compared to the large fish that were harvested using a mortality schedule mimicking a maximum - length, rather than a minimum - length, limit regulation.

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)-- which grow more than 30 feet long — are the largest fish in the world's ocean, but little is known about their movements on a daily basis or over years.

Twisting together a bundle of polyethylene fishing lines, whose total diameter is only about 10 times larger than a human hair, produces a coiled polymer muscle that can lift 7.2 kilograms, the team found.

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), which grow more than 30 feet long, are the largest fish in the world's ocean.

Whale sharks are the world's largest fish with confirmed measurements of more than 12 meters (40 feet) long and more than 18 metric tons.

Because they are large, long - lived predators, tuna accumulate more mercury in their tissue than smaller, short - lived fish.

But while a number of cichlid species, feeding largely on crustaceans or plants, managed to adapt and recover, of the 100 or so species which, like the Nile perch, live on larger fish, more than 80 became extinct.

«Several of the fishing companies we investigated are larger than most nations in terms of their share of global catches.

The researchers did find that lionfish populations were lower in protected reefs, attributing that to targeted removal by reef managers, rather than consumption by large fishes in the protected areas.

Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.

With eyes now placed in the center of the head, fish could peek above the water line and enjoy a larger field of vision than when remaining submerged.

«It will be far cheaper to manage the Coral Sea as a single, large no - take area rather than the proposed combination of four separate zones, which include no - take and recreation - only fishing areas,» says Prof. Pressey, who has published a detailed economic analysis of the options.

Specifically, fish consistently preferred to follow the Gray robot rather than its red replica, spending a larger amount of time in the focal region behind the robotic fish (from the Top view) and in the middle of the water column (from the Side view).