Sentence examples for fish close to from inspiring English sources

A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish.

One of the most plausible is the lure of unusually high numbers of "bait fish" close to shore, a factor of warmer waters and more nutrients.

"The waters of Antarctica have become attractive for industrial scale fishing because fish close to where people live really don't exist in large numbers anymore," Dr. Earle said in a statement announcing the initiative.

Ernest Beckwith, the director of fisheries for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, said the restrictions have had an "absolutely disastrous effect" on Stonington fishermen, especially the small boats that fish close to shore because they have less species available to them.

Longliners, who use baited hooks to catch tuna, billfish, and sharks—and incidentally kill significant numbers of turtles and birds are known to regularly fish close to islands, he says.

He agreed, and Brady helped by towing the fish close to shore.

But the study that brought GM fish closer to market, published late last year, focused on the environmental impact.

With fewer fishing days, fleets would not have enough time to get to the areas where cod fishing would be most sustainable and might have been forced to target younger fish closer to shore, it said.

Commercial fishing kills roughly 100 million sharks a year, a toll that is pushing many of species of the fish closer to extinction, according to a study published Friday in the journal Marine Policy.

Incoming tides bring fish closer to shore.

According to ABC News, "scientists believe weather patterns have driven fish closer to shore this year and brought the feeding whales with them".