How To Use Sand eel In A Sentence
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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)
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They have suffered at times from a shortage of sand eels, but luckily their numbers just now seem to be reasonably stable.
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Regarding flies, the sea trout you are hunting is a highly efficient ocean predator used to chasing sand eel, smaller fish fry and crustacea.
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Wild fish caught for farm feed include herring, mackerel, sand eels and anchovies.
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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.
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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.
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The reasons for the sand eel decline are elusive.
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But the sand eels have vanished, and so too have the tiny plankton that they eat.
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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.
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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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Margate and Long Sands in Kent, Red Bay in Northern Ireland and North Norfolk sand banks act as nursery grounds for many commercial fish species such as plaice and sole whilst also supporting sand eel communities that are a food source for seabirds, porpoises and seals.
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The sand eels - which support the marine food chain from cod and mackerel to kittiwakes - are mainly hoovered up by the Danes, who use their oil to power electricity-producing generators, while the remains go into agricultural feeds.
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The birds are really after sand eels, the fat silver fish that are all meat.
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This has a knock-on effect on the fish and sand eels that feed on them, which in turn affects the survival of seabirds.
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Sandbanks act as nursery grounds for many commercial fish species such as plaice and sole whilst also supporting sand eel communities that are a food source for seabirds and mammals such as seals, it said.
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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
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When chasing bass I would always want a few Clousers minnows in various colours especially chartreuse and white, some Lefty Kreh Deceivers, and a few sand eel patterns and poppers.
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But the sand eels have vanished, and so too have the tiny plankton that they eat.
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Another example is that he blames the decline of puffins on warmer temperatures driving the sand eels they prey on farther north in the North Sea.
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During the summer months you could expect to come across bass and sand eels.
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There is also rock fishing at Europa Point below the Lighthouse for bass fishing, spinners and plugs - though a rubber sand eel on a light trace would be the better bet.
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In Dorset, mackerel usually arrive in June, as they chase the sand eels and whitebait inshore, sometimes chasing them right up onto the beach.
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The bulk of their diet is made up of crustaceans and molluscs, larger fish become more piscivorous, feeding upon herring and sand eels.
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‘Wild puffins normally eat live whitebait, sprats and sand eels which they dive in the sea for,’ said Mrs Platts.
