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UK
/kˈeɪplɪn/
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NOUN
- very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
How To Use capelin In A Sentence
- They carry one capelin, herring, or sand lance at a time to the chicks, making about 16 trips a day.
- She'll cut the capeline and resew it with trims to create a unique shape, or to affix a more decorative brim. News-Gazette.com
- In Alaska's Bering Sea, capelin, herring and other coldwater fish have been in decline, while warmer water creatures like albacore and ocean sunfish have made their appearance.
- For instance, WWF Norway says it is concerned about the impact of the crab - which has no natural enemies in Arctic waters - on the capelin, a fish considered central to the Barents Sea food chain.
- Larger salmon eat a variety of fishes such as herring and alewives, smelts, capelin, small mackerel, sand lace, and small cod.
- Like the capelin, these fish aggregate close to shore, then a female and associated males ride a wave to very shallow water, where they spawn on a fine gravel beach.
- Larval and 0-group cod and capelin, as well as species such as haddock, wolffish, tusk ( '' Brosme brosme ''), and ling ( '' Molva molva '') may also be carried by the western branch of the Irminger Current across to East Greenland and onward to West Greenland [18] (see Fig. 13.6). Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)
- Larger salmon eat a variety of fishes such as herring and alewives, smelts, capelin, small mackerel, sand lace, and small cod.
- We often went down on a Sunday to scoop up basinfuls of capelin when they washed ashore.
- Other important fisheries include those for capelin, Greenland halibut, king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), haddock, and saithe. Fisheries and aquaculture in the Northeast Atlantic (Barents and Norwegian Seas)