Sentence examples for catch by hand from inspiring English sources

They were then so plentiful, a history of the colony records, that one Indian had merely to tread on the mud in a nearby river to scare up and catch by hand "as many fat, sweet eels as he could bring back".

Randomly selected mice were caught by hand.

Much of Charlie's life is a tall tale of giant catfish, fist fights, squirrels caught by hand.

They are large and docile, can be caught by hand (as long as you can climb 100 feet into the canopy) and are certifiably the world's slowest mammal.

Although the suspended sampling bottle was swinging like a pendulum at an amplitude of a few meters, it was safely caught by hand.

Harmless to humans, the puffadder shyshark can be easily caught by hand.

Most are caught by hand, either with hand nets or by spearfishing.

Catching by hand has become increasingly frequent, since the advent of SCUBA diving made the animal's habitat more accessible to humans.

Moreover, five mallards were caught by hand in Oslo, between June 25th and October 13th, 2003.

In the city of Stavanger, 100 pigeons (55 adults and 45 juveniles, hatched the same year) were caught by hand.

Specimens were caught by hand, identified on the basis of external features, measured and photographed for later morphological studies.