In the wild, they feast gregariously in shallow waters, encircling shoals of small fish, scooping them up in their pouches.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, fishing trawlers scooped up — often illegally — redfish and round-nosed grenadier in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, to the point that stocks there are now almost completely depleted.
Fishing Guide Scoops Author's Rainbow Trout into a Net.
When fishing gear scoops up, hooks, entangles, or otherwise harms another creature not destined for market, it's called bycatch: an innocuous term for a senseless waste of marine life.
Pelican feed almost entirely on fish that they scoop out of the water into the enormous throat pouch – the water is then drained out and the fish swallowed.
Once a fish does bite, scoop it up.
Put your net inside the bag with your tropical fish in and scoop up the fish gently.
This was true of the fish I finally scooped out of the net beside that log jam.
The early 20th century saw hook and line give way to draggers that cut ever larger swaths across the seabed as they scooped fish into their nets.
Previous specimens' cone-shaped teeth and evidence of strong forelimbs suggested that the beast ate fish, possibly simply scooping them from the water.
Tens of millions of sharks are killed each year internationally, with the biggest culprits being monstrous fishing trawlers that scoop these predators out of the sea, chop off their fins and throw the crippled animals back into a watery grave.
