The word "shoal" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe a large group of fish, but can also be used more generally to describe a large group of any kind of creatures. For example, "The campers were surprised to see a shoal of butterflies near the lake."
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The fishermen called for help, and two Chinese civilian patrol boats blocked the mouth of the shoal to stop the Philippine navy from arresting the fishermen.The Filipinos were not playing the South China Sea game as the Chinese expect it to be played.
By Paul DehnA boat-load of emigrant Huns Including five doom-destined nuns Came to grief on a shoal— But since heaven's our goal, The dead were the fortunate ones.
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It turns out that by fiddling with these tendencies, a virtual shoal can be made to swirl spontaneously in a circle, just like some real species do.In this section Alchemists, ancient and modern Going underground Mind and body Follow my leader Speech therapy ReprintsThat is a start.
A preliminary study of a shoal of ten flesh-and-blood sticklebacks shows that they do indeed mingle with the robot and that they follow its leadership cues as predicted.
In 1933 Chinese mapmakers, angered by the French assertion of sovereignty further to the south in the Spratly islands, extended the claim right down to the James shoal, which they apparently thought was above water but is in fact a submerged feature near Borneo.In 1936, the U-shaped line appeared.
Yet it is in often tense disputes with ASEAN countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines over control of three sets of islands and rocks in the South China Sea the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal and with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE rocks and coral known as James Shoal are not much: just a raised stretch of seabed 22 metres (72 feet) below the surface and 107km (67 miles) off the coast of Malaysian Borneo.
The third, known as Zhongsha in Chinese, includes Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by the Philippines but has in effect been controlled by China since 2012.
"Like gnawing at a hard bone and wading through a dangerous shoal .Mr Xi, and Mr Wen's likely successor as prime minister, Li Keqiang, will try to solve their many problems by breaking the grip of party and government officials on the economic life of the nation without threatening the party's overall control.
