bottom fish
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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
There might be some danger to bottom fish in the vicinity, but I think the water would get so hot from the lava that fish would avoid it, anyway.
From The Flaming Mountain by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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