Sentence examples for clam size from inspiring English sources

The purpose was to measure the effects of hydrodynamic conditions, substrate, and clam size on dispersal in controlled laboratory condition and to interpret these results in relation to field measurements.

Clams within all three clam size classes increased in shell length and wet weight after being exposed to all treatments, except for those which were starved (Fig. 1).

Three replicate tanks (2-L tanks 178 mm length × 130 mm width × 120 mm height) were used for each feeding treatment and for each of the three clam size classes.

Three clam size classes were selected as: spat (0 10.0 mm in shell length), juveniles (15.0 25.0 mm in shell length), and adults (30.0 40.0 mm in shell length).

Finally, quantification of clam size, age, and number in archaeological sites in Washington state suggests that management was occurring at the level of habitat manipulation, rather than through harvesting rules per se (Daniels 2009).

There were no restrictions on time or clam size, and the TAC was never reached (market demand for ocean quahogs improved during this period but remained lower than demand for surf clams).

With the littleneck and butter clams, only large individuals were used for individual analysis, whereas a range of clam sizes was used for composite analysis.

It was a beauty, a surf clam the size of a cat's head, built for chowder.

"You have a clam this size"—Petersen made an "O" with his forefinger and thumb and, with one of those, you can get a big cod". As we spoke, Petersen's wife made tea, and their eighteen-month-old daughter sat on a couch, watching a DVD of "Frozen". The wondrous fictional landscape of Arendelle with its deep fjords and craggy mountains looked just like the world outside her door.

We can seldom know for certain if such awareness extended into pre-contact times, or whether the acts that resulted in conserving were intentional from the outset or were simply accidental byproducts of other harvesting choices (e.g., the behavior of the prey [Lyman 2003). However, the archaeological evidence for clam management (size standardization, clam gardens, etc). is compelling.

"We don't have it in France," he had said a few weeks earlier, standing at the kitchen sink in his East Harlem apartment, scrubbing clams the size of hockey pucks.