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sand eel

NOUN
  1. very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

How To Use sand eel In A Sentence

  • But polar cod, capelin, sand eel (Ammodytes spp.), and squid (Illex illecebrosus) are probably the most important pelagic/semi-pelagic macrofauna acting as forage for fish such as Greenland halibut and cod, marine mammals, and seabirds. Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)
  • They have suffered at times from a shortage of sand eels, but luckily their numbers just now seem to be reasonably stable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Regarding flies, the sea trout you are hunting is a highly efficient ocean predator used to chasing sand eel, smaller fish fry and crustacea.
  • Wild fish caught for farm feed include herring, mackerel, sand eels and anchovies.
  • This is probably because of a problem that is now afflicting many British seabirds - a decline in the number of sand eels in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the water is clear enough, try fly fishing for them with any fly that imitates something small and silvery like an elver or sand eel or small fish.
  • The reasons for the sand eel decline are elusive. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the sand eels have vanished, and so too have the tiny plankton that they eat. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is probably because of a problem that is now afflicting many British seabirds - a decline in the number of sand eels in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
  • About 750 million tonnes of sand eels are caught every year for use in fishmeal and oil used to manufacture feed for salmon farms.
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