Sentence examples for bottom fishes from inspiring English sources

Electric rays (Torpedinidae) are characteristically bottom fishes of sluggish habits.

The lophiiforms are primarily bottom fishes as adults, but many produce floating rafts of eggs.

Deep-sea cods (Moridae, about 105 species) are cold-water bottom fishes, living at greater depths along the continental slopes.

Grenadiers (Macrouridae, about 350 species), typically bottom fishes, live along the continental slopes at depths of 100 to 1,000 fathoms.

Four species of eel cods (Muraenolepididae) are confined to Antarctic seas, and, like the cods, they are bottom fishes, living at moderate depths.

A few species, especially the long-snouted Triacanthodidae, have reduced or even rudimentary teeth, some apparently feeding on the scales of other bottom fishes.

WHATEVER happened to bottom fishing?

"There's unsustainable bottom fishing, and there's sustainable.

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Regulators also propose closing waters off California, Oregon and Washington to bottom fishing.

This might help, for instance, in taking accurate surveys of bottom fish.