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The commercial catch individuals run between 1 and 2 feet long (30–60 cm), and average about 5 lb (2 kg). It is an excellent food fish. It is marketed as fresh or frozen fillets; a part of the catch is smoked. Global annual cusk catches in 1950–2003 from FAO statistics. The highest catch was 55,000 tonnes in 1980.
Bird eggs are laid by the females and range in quantity from one (as in condors) to up to seventeen (the grey partridge). Clutch size may vary latitudinally within a ...
Burbot, Lota lota The burbot (Lota lota), also known as bubbot, [2] mariah, [3] loche, cusk, [4] freshwater cod, [5] freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, [6] or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere.
Early birds may catch the worm - but it's the early volunteers who catch the birds. And the ones that get caught in the 18-metre long, fine-mist nets strung high across a reed bed at Killycolpy ...
It’s a case for cops to crack – but are still scrambling to solve it. More than 500 eggs were stolen in an early-morning heist in Seattle – as bird flu continues to drive up prices of the ...
Oology (/ oʊ ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; [1] also oölogy) is a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behaviour. The word is derived from the Greek oion, meaning egg. Oology can also refer to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs, sometimes called egg collecting, birdnesting or egging, which is now illegal in many ...
The increase in egg prices is a direct result of the spread of bird flu. Each month, U.S. farmers are forced to slaughter millions of chickens to limit the spread of the disease. That has resulted ...
It is a much larger bird than its hosts, and needs to monopolize the food supplied by the parents. The chick will roll the other eggs out of the nest by pushing them with its back over the edge. If the host's eggs hatch before the cuckoo's, the cuckoo chick will push the other chicks out of the nest in a similar way.