Carp Sentence Examples

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  • The Dawkins group continued to carp about airline reservations.

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  • The scaly fish include members of the carp and perch kind.

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  • Lake Greca, famous for its carp, lies io m.

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  • Its days like this that make me realize how dim we carp anglers are at times.

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  • The fishery includes salmon in the Oder, trout in the mountain streams, and carp in the small lakes or ponds with which the province is sprinkled.

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  • Whilst you can stalk carp on some waters most of the time, these conditions really make life a lot easier.

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  • He has landed almost 100 40lb carp in his career.

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  • Rick also caught 3 bonus tench and one 12lb carp.

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  • Hogganfield is hardly fished at all except by seasoned carp anglers, which is a bit of a shame.

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  • Top Pond Terry Jones Senior caught lots of roach and a carp of 12lbs on pole and maggot hook bait.

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  • Examples include mink, signal crayfish, common carp and plants such a Himalayan balsam, New Zealand pigmy weed and parrots feather.

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  • This rod has a pleasing through action and when extended, could easily be mistaken for a two piece standard carp blank.

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  • The Pool's Holiday bonanza Paul Ringham had a carp bonanza on the Fields End Pool during the Bank Holiday Open fished on Saturday.

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  • John Finch also had a good day catching 27 carp to 8lb for a good ton bag.

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  • To demonstrate our point - the first 20lb carp caught this year was on the 22 March 2006.

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  • Frank Morgan landed 2 10lb common carp, Ron Broom landed a 10lb mirror carp all on Friday night.

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  • The odd carp is also being taken from the boats with the island being favorite.

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  • Learn more about boating holiday in France carp fishing holiday Try to visit the best carp fishing lakes in France.

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  • There was also a good head of crucian carp to 3lbs.

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  • Go to an aquatic center and find out how much a koi carp will cost you.

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  • The membership includes Old Bury Hill Lake, Temple Lake our new specimen carp lake.

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  • Terry fished a soft paste and fed carp pellet little and often.

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  • In fact, grass carp are often mistaken for record sized chub!

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  • Carp to over 30 pounds, Barbel to 15 pounds plus and chub to 6 pounds seem commonplace.

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  • Paul fished peg 47 and caught all his fish on soft pellet fished over carp pellet and chopped corn.

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  • All the fish fell to soft pellet fished over small carp pellets and crushed corn.

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  • As always the winter was full of socials and the odd very rare winter carp and on one occasion we truly excelled ourselves.

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  • Most baits appear to be working although corn, meat and carp pellet remain firm favorites with boilies taking the bigger fish.

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  • The waters contain carp to 20lb+, tench to 6lb together with perch, rudd, skimmer bream, brown goldfish and roach.

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  • Steve fished a small float 4 rods out and feed hemp and carp pellet fishing soft pellets on the hook.

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  • Dimensions 6'9 " x 8 " (206 x 22cm) £ 17.99 Shakespeare Rod holdall - A holdall for the specialist carp angler.

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  • Never before has such a high spec carp holdall been produced of this quality, at such a reasonable price.

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  • The most prestigious carp fishing waters in the world are regularly featured and information regarding fishing availability and tactics are covered in-depth.

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  • There will be in-depth interviews into the world of carp angling.

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  • L... koi for sale I have 13 koi carp ranging from 8 in - 18 inc.. .

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  • Anyone fishing for specimen carp or predators must have a large unhooking mat and large landing net.

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  • Forgiving enough to absorb the lunges of a big carp but with enough reserve to stop fish when needed.

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  • All of Chris's fish came to small pieces of luncheon meat fished over carp pellets.

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  • Carp Another quite week although the few carp anglers that did fish found the carp surprisingly obliging.

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  • Daniel float fished luncheon meat over small carp pellets.

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  • Carp feeding well with some quality fish now showing including a 30 pounder from behind the island on the back bank.

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  • Many carp anglers will adopt the KS Powerplay as their first choice spod reel.

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  • The loch can hold more than 200 anglers and holds roach, perch, bream, gudgeon, carp and tench.

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  • It is designed to cast weights up to 70g. £ 24.95 Kevin Maddocks Carp rod - Kevin's new mid-range carp rod.

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  • The carp rod is a 12ft, two piece rod, with a test curve of 2.5lbs.

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  • The lake, made in 1928 and dredged for the first time in 1984, is well-stocked with carp and golden rudd.

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  • Roach are the main species together with the odd rudd, tench & carp.

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  • The Fringe Pool is absolutely teeming with golden flanked cheeky Crucian Carp.

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  • It's rare to see zander take baits as Bury Hill is usually quite murky through all the bream, tench and carp activity.

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  • There are 30 lb carp, pike to mid-twenties and double-figure zander.

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  • The fresh waters of southern Asia are deficient in the typical forms of the Acanthopterygii, and are chiefly inhabited by carp, siluroids, simple or spined eels, and the walking and climbing fishes.

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  • Briefly, the chief fish of Japan are the bream (tai), the perch (suzuki), the mullet (bora), the rock-fish (hatatate), the grunter (oni-o-koze), the mackerel (saba), the sword-fish (tachi-uwo), the wrasse (kusabi), the haddock (tara), the flounder (karei), and its congeners the sole (hiranie) and the turbot (ishi-garei), the shad (namazu), the salmon (shake), the mash, the carp (koi), the funa, the gold fish (kzngyo), the gold carp (higoi), theloach (dojo), the herring (nishin) the iwashi (Clu pea melanosticta), the eel (unagi), the conger eel (anago), the coffer-fish (hako-uwo), the fugu (Tetrodon), the ai (Plecoglossus altivelis), the sayori (Heminamphus sayoni), the shark (same), the dogfish (maiiuka-zame), the ray (e), the sturgeon (chO-lame) and the maguro (Thynnus sibi).

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  • Admirable results are thus produced; as when, through a medium of cerulean blue, bright goldfish and blue-backed carp appear swimming in silvery waves, or brilliantly plumaged birds seem to soar among fleecy clouds.

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  • When we remember that only about one-tenth of the True Word is really lost and that about three-quarters of what we have is verbatim text, it would be ungracious to carp at the method.

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  • Carp Strigolnik, who in the 14th century preached this doctrine in Novgorod, explained that St Paul had taught that simpleminded men should instruct one another; therefore they elected their "teachers" from among themselves to be their spiritual guides, and had no special priests.

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  • The sacred beasts in the various temples, tame as far as possible, were of almost every conceivable variety, from the vulture to the swallow or the goose, from the lion to the shrew-mouse, from the hippopotamus to the sheep and the monkey, from the crocodile to the tortoise and the cobra, from the carp to the eel; the scorpion and the scarab beetle were perhaps the strangest in this strange company of deities.

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  • The pair fished corn tipped with red worm over carp pellet.

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  • It is designed to cast weights up to 70g. £ 24.95 Kevin Maddocks Carp Rod - Kevin 's new mid-range carp rod.

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  • Perhaps you like Carp bagging or skimmer fishing, maybe Chub on the River or Roach fishing.

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  • Instantly a carp rose from behind the bar and slurped down the first mixer it came to, followed by another one and another.

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  • These fish, which have spawned naturally in the pool, look like Common Carp but have no barbels.

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  • Another very individual aspect to this carp rod is the reverse spigot joint.

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  • Stocked with carp weighing up to 6lb, it flows into a small stream bordered by gunnera and the whole area attracts wildlife.

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  • Temple will also receive its final big stocking with 25/30 carp to upper 20's.

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  • Once again, my trusty telescopic carp rod was the tool of choice.

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  • Unhooking mats must be used by carp anglers, who must use at least 8lb line.

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  • If you unhook fish on the ground, a carp mat must be used.

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  • It 's easy to carp and whinge about things when they go wrong, but we often forget to mention when things go right.

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  • For example, a goldfish, which is a member of the carp family, is one of Buddha's Eight Sacred Symbols representing abundance, fertility and harmony in life.

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  • In the Chinese practice of feng shui, placing a golden carp statue in your home attracts good luck.

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  • It has a horse's body and a dragon's head with carp fish scales.

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  • The yin and yang energies are held in perfect balance within the yin yang symbol of two carp swimming in a circle.

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  • You want to use red and black carp, goldfish, sword fish, or black Mollies.

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  • The koi is an ornamental carp and there are at least 14 different classifications of koi distinguished by their color and markings.

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  • Its reward when it finally leapt over the falls at the gate was the transformation from a simple carp into a magnificent dragon god.

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  • If you're in search of a good luck symbol then this colorful carp is the perfect choice.

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  • For example, the symbol of a fish, especially the use of a carp, has several meanings related to abundance and prosperity.

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  • The carp's value to the Chinese culture easily became a symbol of fertility and prosperity.

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  • In feng shui, the carp (koi) or goldfish are used in a pond outside the home as a way to attract auspicious chi energy.

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  • Sea-Ex Games Online-This site is filled with fish games, including "3D Virtual Carp Fishing," "Pearl Diver," and "Pelican Lost."

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  • Koi fish (carp) symbolize friendship and love in Japan.

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  • You may be surprised to learn that koi are actually just carp - koi being the Japanese word for carp - but these fish are not "just" any fish.

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  • The Elbe produces excellent pike, salmon and eels, its tributaries trout in considerable quantities, while the marshy ponds lying on the left bank furnish a good supply of carp, a fish held in great esteem by the inhabitants.

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  • The inland waters, with the exception of Lake Chapala, have comparatively few species, but the government has introduced carp, brook-trout and salmon-trout.

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  • In the wild state its colours do not differ from those of a Crucian carp, and like that fish it is tenacious of life and easily domesticated.

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  • Albinos seem to be rather common; and as in other fishes (for instance, the tench, carp, eel, flounder), the colour of most of these albinos is a bright orange or golden yellow; occasionally even this shade of colour is lost, the fish being more or less pure white or silvery.

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  • The artificial cultivation of fish, now chiefly carp, in the numerous ponds that surround the town dates from the 14th century.

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  • For descriptions of other Cyprinids than the carp, see Goldfish, Barbel, Gudgeon, Rudd, Roach, Chub, Dace, Minnow, Tench, Bream, Bleak, Bitterling, Mahseer.

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  • The carp itself, Cyprinus carpio, has a very wide distribution, having spread, through the agency of man, over nearly the whole of Europe and a part of North America, where it lives in lakes, ponds, canals, and slow-running rivers with plenty of The Common Carp.

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  • The carp appears to be a native of temperate Asia and perhaps also of south-eastern Europe, and to have been introduced into other parts in the 12th and 13th century; it was first mentioned in England in 1496.

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  • The acclimatization of the carp in America has been a great success, especially in the northern waters, where, the growth continuing throughout the entire year, the fish soon attains a remarkable size.

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  • In the British Isles the 1 The name of the fishes of the genus Cyprinus is derived from the island of Cyprus, the ancient sanctuary of Venus; this name is supposed to have arisen from observations of the fecundity and vivacity of carp during the spawning period.

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  • Although partly feeding on worms and other small forms of animal life, the carp is principally a vegetarian, and the great development of its pharyngeal apparatus renders it particularly adapted to a graminivorous regime.

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  • The longevity of the fish has probably been much exaggerated, and the statements of carp of 200 years living in the ponds of Pont-Chartrain and other places in France and elsewhere do not rest on satisfactory evidence.

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  • Large numbers of fish, principally carp, pike and tench are still reared profitably, the pools being periodically dried up and the ground cultivated.

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  • The fish are mainly the coarser species, such as carp, buffalo-fish and white perch; of better food fish, the principal varieties are bass (black, striped and rock), crappie, pike, "jack salmon" or walleyed pike, and sun fish.

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  • The common carp (Cyprinus carpio), originally a Chinese fish, has for centuries been acclimatized in Europe, where indeed it is in places a true domestic creature, with definite variations.

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  • The Prussian carp (Carassius vulgaris) is established in New Zealand, and the nearly-allied goldfish, a domestic form (C. auratus) of Chinese origin, has been widely distributed as a pet, and is feral in some places.

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  • The Gygaean lake (where remains of pile dwellings have been found) still abounds with carp.

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  • Among the culprits apprehended by enforcement officers during the blitz were a number of carp fisherman in the Environment Agency's Thames region.

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  • Ros Needle landed a 6lbs carp using a boilie hook bait Middle Pond Joel Rees caught a 7lb carp on Wednesday.

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  • The day then progressed slowly with me snapping off at another carp and catching a further two more skimmer bream.

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  • A small wooden bridge leads from the orchard to the large carp lake.

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  • Large tortoises abound, and, in the `Ain el-'Arus pool, fresh-water turtles and carp. Of domestic Ritter, Erdkunde, xi.

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  • It 's rare to see zander take baits as Bury Hill is usually quite murky through all the bream, tench and carp activity.

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  • The chief are the Sardab-rud, Chalus, Herhaz (Lar in its upper course), Babul, Tejen and Nika, and all are well stocked with trout, salmon (azad-mahi), perch (safid-mahi), carp (kupur), bream (subulu), sturgeon (sag-mahi) and other fish, which with rice form the staple food of the inhabitants; the sturgeon supplies the caviare for the Russian market.

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  • A close ally of the carp is the Crucian carp, Cyprinus carassius, chiefly distinguished by the absence of barbels.

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  • The pond-culture of carp is an important industry in China and Germany, and has been introduced with some success in the United States, but in England it has long fallen out of use, and is not likely to be revived so long as fresh fish can be obtained and distributed so readily as is now the case.

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  • The most prominent statesman in the new Conservative-Junimist ad- - ministration was P. Carp, who in the spring of 1889 succeeded in passing a bill which authorized the distribution of state lands among the peasantry.

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  • All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.

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  • The most useful economically are several species of sturgeon and of herring, trout,barbel,chubb,bream, ray,sea-dace, carp, anchovy.

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  • The carp and salmon tribes are the most abundant; after them rank the pike, the eel, the shad, the roach, the perch and the lamprey.

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  • The fish principally caught are sturgeon, giving caviare, sheat fish or silure, salmon, carp, bream and perch.

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  • Tench if kept in suitable waters are extremely prolific, and as they grow within a few years to a weight of 3 or 4 lb, and are then fit for the table, they may be profitably introduced into ponds which are already stocked with other fishes, such as carp and pike.

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  • Among Indian fishes, the Cyprinidae or carp family and the Siluridae or cat-fishes are best represented.

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  • The now censorious Squarcione found much to carp at in the earlier works of this series, illustrating the life of St James; he said the figures were like men of stone, and had better have been coloured stone-colour at once.

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  • The various breeds of goldfish are familiar examples, but the carp is almost the only food-fish capable of similar domestication.

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  • Europe, except the carp, are met with in the lakes and rivers in immense quantities, the characteristic feature of the region being its wealth in Coregoni and in Salmonidae generally.

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  • Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

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  • The palace is surrounded by gardens and ornamental waters - to the north the Jardin de l'Orangerie, to the south the Jardin Anglais and the Parterre, between which extends the lake known as the Bassin des Carpes, containing carp in large numbers.

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  • The presence of carp in Indo-China and the Malay Archipelago is probably also to be ascribed to human agency.

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  • Fish are caught in great numbers in the rivers and marshes, chiefly barbel and carp, and the latter attain so great a size that one is a sufficient load for an ass.

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  • Fish are scarce in inner Persia; salmon trout and mud-trout are plentiful in some of the mountain streams. Many underground canals are frequented by carp and roach.

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  • Among European freshwater fishing-grounds, the Danube is only surpassed by the Volga; the most valuable fish being sturgeon and sterlet, mostly netted in the St George mouth; carp, often weighing 50 lb; pike, perch, tench and eels.

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  • The absence of Coregoni is a characteristic feature of the fish-fauna of the steppes; the carp, on the contrary, reappears, and the rivers abound in sturgeon (Acipenseridae).

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  • The Cyprinidae, or carp, are largely represented in southern Asia, and there grow to a size unknown in Europe; a Barbus in the Tigris has been taken of the weight of 300 Th.

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  • There are a few speckled trout in the mountain streams, but the commoner fish are bass, perch, catfish, crappies, pike, drum buffalo, carp, suckers and eels.

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  • The Fayum also possesses an excellent breed of sheep. Lake Kerun abounds in fish, notably the bulli (Nile carp), of which considerable quantities are sent to Cairo.

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  • One of these, remarkable for its very short, thick head and deep body, is the socalled Prussian carp, C. gibelio, often imported into English ponds, whilst the best known is the goldfish, C. auratus, first produced in China.

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  • In the days of medieval abbeys, when the provident Cistercian monks attached great importance to pond culture, they gave the first place to the tench and bream, the carp still being unknown in the greater part of Europe.

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  • Among fishes, white fish, lake trout, perch, herring, sun-fish, bass, sturgeon, pickerel, suckers, German carp and fresh-water drum abound in the lakes.

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