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Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [17] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [16]
Fish stocks are subpopulations of a particular species of fish, for which intrinsic parameters (growth, recruitment, mortality and fishing mortality) are traditionally regarded as the significant factors determining the stock's population dynamics, while extrinsic factors (immigration and emigration) are traditionally ignored. Stocks fished ...
The chiselmouth (Acrocheilus alutaceus) is an unusual cyprinid fish of western North America. It is named for the sharp hard plate on its lower jaw, which is used to scrape rocks for algae . It is the sole member of the monotypic genus Acrocheilus and is a close relative of the Gila western chubs, [ 3 ] and is known to hybridise with ...
A fish of "normal" weight has a relative weight of 100 percent. The relative weight of a fish does not indicate its health on a continuous scale from 0 -100%, however. For example, Simpkins et al. found that juvenile rainbow trout with a condition index of less than 80% were at a high risk of dying. [9] Relative weight is one of several common ...
The Kraken is an aquatic monster that has appeared in many comics publications. [2] A Kraken was featured in the story "The Kraken" in issue #49 of Adventures into the Unknown by ACG in 1953. [3] The web comic "Angry Faerie" (from July 13, 2012), featured a bodybuilder type character called the Kraken. [4]
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Fish stocks indicators, which is normalized as a 0–100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target. Stock assessments provide fisheries managers with the information that is used in the regulation of a fish stock. Biological and fisheries data are collected in a stock assessment.
“We got weights in fish!” The world of competitive fishing is up in arms over a scandal that saw two fishermen accused of weighing down their catch with lead Lead balls were found inside the ...