Sentence examples for fishing down from inspiring English sources

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Usually the river is full of guys trying to fill their coolers before they go fishing down the shore".

This phenomenon, which has become known as "fishing down the food web," was first identified by Daniel Pauly, a fisheries biologist at the University of British Columbia.

These rates subsequently decline which is likely due in part to the effect of shark control programs "fishing down" local populations of animals vulnerable to the gear.

Commercial fishermen have thus begun fishing down the food chain, and smaller fish behave in ways that make them very vulnerable, swimming in large, dense schools that are easy to spot from the air and require little fuel to pursue.

Long before the oil rig exploded, rising fuel prices and competition from Asia's cheap farmed shrimp had made a risky and physically punishing profession far less profitable: only a few thousand Louisianians now make their living fishing, down from more than 20,000 in the late 1980s.

Around the corner from the bakery, on an unpaved street, a small knot of men have two manhole covers lifted, exposing a sickening black sludge that has backed up almost to street level; they're fishing down the hole for the blockage with a long, thin rod.

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"No fish down here," Sylvia said.

I'm like a fish down here, gulping coloured air.

Tex: "Everyone wears a fish down their trousers".

"Generally, they're following the dolphins down and the dolphins are following other fish down, that's all.

She thought he had been out that day delivering fish down Chancery Lane, though she never knew for sure.

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