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rough fish
noun
Any fish not considered valuable as sport fish nor used as bait or for food.
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In British freshwater fishing it is used to catch what are called coarse (or rough) fish.
Most states limit the take to rough fish like carp, gar, suckers and other bottom-feeders.
Lenz has a few she likes in Spanish, the language she grew up hearing from her Spanish parents: full stomach, empty mind; when the water's rough, fish.
Lake Davis was treated with derris in 1997 and again 10 years later in an attempt to suppress or eradicate the rough fish.
For example, the biodegradable and photolabile rotenone in the form of derris resin (Cheng et al. 1972; Fukami et al. 1967; Schuler and Casida 2001) was used to remove invasive northern pike and other rough fish (i.e., less desirable fish) before reintroducing trout into Lake Davis in California (California Department of Fish and Game 2004, 2008).
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Once considered a rather rough fishing village, the area has become gentrified amid an influx of people from the north-east states, bringing with it a relatively new recycling practice and raised property prices.
Friday the wind came up and by noon it was too rough to fish.
Likewise, the dentist's niece tends to be rough with fish, misunderstanding how her actions are dangerous.
Watched kingfisher that commonly fished near her windows, observed that when water was too rough for fishing, bird visited sour-gum tree (Nyssa aquatica) and greedily devoured berries, afterward regurgitated pellets of seeds In same manner it ejected scales and bones of fish.
There, the small income from farming is supplemented with eco-tourism, forest products, rough hunting, fishing, outdoor education, skiing and hiking.
That is a genuinely useful, albeit very rough, barometer for fish quality: many fish and shellfish really do get better in the colder months, improving in plumpness and condition as they feed hard and fast to regain condition after their summer spawning.
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