Sentence examples for deformed fish from inspiring English sources
If we weren't so divorced from nature, we'd give a rat's ass--make that a double rat's ass--about all those freaky deformed frogs that have been sprouting extra legs in recent decades, and the sexually deformed fish that started popping up in the Potomac a few years back.
Residents have complained about foul-smelling well water, deformed fish and itchy skin.
In modern times the river has reeled from industrial pollution, sporting deformed fish and prompting warnings against swimming the oil-slicked waters.
Still, in addition to catching fish, he also breeds them, about eight million fry a year to help nature replenish the supply, and the mystery surrounding the deformed fish troubles him.
Researchers found that most herring eggs laid on shoreline tainted by Cosco Busan fuel either failed to hatch or hatched into deformed fish that stood no chance of survival.
Though BP claims the Gulf of Mexico is home to healthy fish, eyeless shrimp and deformed fish are routinely caught, and BP is opening three new drilling rigs in the Gulf.
"At relatively higher concentrations, the effects on a developing fish heart are severe in that the heart muscle cannot do its job, or becomes deformed -- those fish will die," he said.
The antihero, Marcello Clerici (JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT), is a bureaucratic cold fish deformed by a dysfunctional haute-bourgeois family and a childhood sexual trauma.
— The streams of people came to the public meeting here armed with stories of yellowed and foul-smelling well water, deformed livestock, poisoned fish and itchy skin.
On the other hand, no statistically significant differences in the expression profile of 38-days old sea bass juveniles were observed comparing deformed against normal fish.
Analysis of fish from a metal-contaminated site in the Tunisian coast (Sfax) indicated that fish presenting spinal deformities (eight times more frequent at this site than in reference sites) showed increased levels of hepatic CYP1A mRNA levels compared to non-deformed fish from the same site or from the reference Louza site, suggesting a combined impact by metals and organic pollutants.
