bottom fish
Example Sentences
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In a healthy Arctic system, thousands of bottom-dwelling species — bottom fish, clams, crabs and shrimp-like critters — feast on the lipid-rich algae that falls from the ice to the bottom of the sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Retail investors may have been "trying to bottom fish and got washed out with the recent new low," he said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2015
We would catch bottom fish everytime we dropped our line in the water.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2013
Randy Smith, a commercial fisherman who specializes in shrimp, crab and bottom fish, said he had escaped Crescent City Harbor early on Friday after being warned that big waves were headed his way.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011
Here the ‘miller’s thumbs’ are numerous—a bottom fish growing to about four inches in length, and with a head enormously broad and large in proportion to its body.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
