gill

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Instead of having gill covers like most other fish, moral eels breathe by opening and closing their mouths, appearing as if they’re gasping for breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2024

NRW said Samuel deliberately used a large spinning bait with a barbed treble hook, and when the fish was examined by the officer the lure was still lodged deep in its throat and gill rackers.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

But by the time the video footage begins, the underdog octopus had already asserted its toughness, blocking off the eel’s eyes and stuffing arms into its mouth and out the gill hole.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

Their wiggling catch arrives alive, not smushed as in a purse seine, or ripped and bleeding from a gill net.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

In minutes, she peeled back thick sections, like a steak, for each gill and she turned them like pages in a book.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen