Perch Sentence Examples

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

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  • The churning sea below was littered with jagged rocks that looked small from her perch a hundred feet above them.

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  • Cats have a natural need to climb, scratch and perch in high areas.

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  • Kittens will try to climb to the top of your drapes and perch on the curtain rod if not discouraged.

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  • Let me share with you the basics for the room, and then I will teach you how to make my cool cat perch.

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  • Brigstocke makes the odd interjection from his lofty perch, but all this means is the guests are forever craning their necks round.

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  • I set up a feeding station near the water/river, added a litter tray, and I was now ready to make my cool cat perch.

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  • If you plan to make more than one perch, buy more fabric.

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  • If you collect bird figurines, repurpose a few cardinals to perch among your evergreen spray or cascade.

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  • In that case, you'll need comfortable places for people to perch while they visit.

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  • Next, lay your fabric out face down, and set your perch on top of it in the middle, leaving the stapled side up.

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  • Finally, attach your brackets to your base, and then screw the brackets to the wall, taking care that your perch is basically level.

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  • A slightly higher level is a perch that allows your cat to relax while still being able to survey her domain.

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  • She will have a place of refuge from the friendly family dog and a perch from which she can oversee the family's daily activities.

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  • This may seem unimportant until you see your cats fighting over which one gets to sleep on the one perch you provided for four cats.

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  • Another attractive feature of a nectar source is an easy place to land and perch while feeding.

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  • The Lectro™ Kitty Perch offers your feline a luxurious window view.

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  • When cats are in the wild, they perch themselves in trees or higher places where predators are less likely to reach them.

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  • The wide blue eyes stare innocently out from their perch atop your foot.

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  • Anseres, can hardly be said to " perch."

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  • A juvenile Gabar goshawk came hurtling past one of the vehicles to perch on top of an acacia.

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  • Nathan Smith caught 2 perch to 8oz using a spinner on Sunday.

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  • From his pilothouse perch river travel began on our cruise mysterious orinoco river.

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  • I started off on pole fished fluro pinkie on the near side shelf and was immediately into small roach, perch and skimmers.

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  • Mom is taking a break from her maternal duties and is having a preen on the perch by the male.

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  • Other freshwater fish are the perch, black bass, pike, pickerel and white fish.

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  • Oh-o-o-o-o that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n! sighs one on this side of the pond, and circles with the restlessness of despair to some new perch on the gray oaks.

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  • It's a rectangle filled with colored squares upon which perch some strange animals.

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  • Spotted Flycatchers, one of the last migrants to arrive, are a regular sight, making repeated sallies from the same perch.

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  • I get brave enough to shimmy down to the beginning of Mick 's perch and crouch down to watch him.

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  • The male 's song is a medley of slightly wheezy warbling notes, usually sung from a perch in a tree.

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  • Cat trees are favorites with more athletic cats who appreciate a bit of climbing mixed with a few gymnastics in order to reach the top perch.

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  • Left to their own devices, cats will use just about any perch they can find as a window seat.

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  • Our resident cat expert, Wendy Nan Rees, offers advice on how to create a jungle room for your cat and an awesome cat perch.

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  • You can control the amount of cushion with how many times your wrap the batting around, but don't go overboard or your perch base will be too bulky.

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  • Dragons that perch on your shoulder or are able to curl up in your lap are known as Jiliam and can be adopted through Draconian adoptions.

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  • Have the tree frog climbing over the branch toward the viewer for a realistic look, or perch the frog sideways moving up a limb and branch simultaneously.

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  • Fishing - Lake Hubbard is known for its excellent bass, trout, walleye, and yellow perch fishing and as a winter ice-fishing spot.

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  • The lake is known throughout the Midwest for its excellent trout, walleye, bass, and yellow perch fishing.

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  • The fish are sea-trout, lake-trout, pike and perch.

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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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  • Nearly one-half both in quantity and value are taken from Lake Michigan, and, although as many as twenty kinds are caught in considerable quantities, more than 90% of the value of the catch consists of trout, herring, white fish and perch.

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  • The smallest variety is the culper or burrowing perch.

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  • A pair of older boys stood atop a corner building with a water cannon, letting lose on the paraders with a stream from their high, seemingly secure position—until the fire truck proved its might by soaking them and their perch, to the delight of the crowd.

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  • The old Apple tree leaned from its perch on a mound of earth to throw shadows on the pond.

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  • The perch swim was earmarked six meters out but downstream at about a 45-degree angle to the fishing position.

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  • Indeed, with most owls it is usually very easy as they usually perch with their leg feathers covering the anklets.

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  • The Sugababes are this weeks only credible contenders to knock the Pussycat Dolls from their perch.

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  • The Biblically minded may use the cubit for medium-scale measurement, otherwise the use of the rod, pole or perch is recommended.

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  • New born cygnets are mainly lost to crows, herons, magpies, turtles, pike and large perch.

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  • Not only do they catch barbel but also perch, big dace and roach to over a pound.

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  • His choice of feed for the perch swim was two bait droppers of bronze maggots with a few reds among them.

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  • The Nile perch is the largest freshwater fish in the world accessible to anglers.

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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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  • Nile perch was introduced some years ago into lake Victoria in Africa, the world's largest freshwater lake.

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  • The roasted sweet pepper awash with garlic provided a vibrant backdrop to a large roundel of goat's cheese oozing over its crostini perch.

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  • For Wales or Ireland or Scotland to beat the English they have to drag them down off their lofty perch.

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  • I felt strangely helpless and vulnerable as the first tinkling chunks whizzed by, Es cursing increasingly loudly from his precarious perch high above.

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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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  • Into the match itself and roach only showed in pockets leaving most of the field to fish for the odd roach and some perch.

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  • Will they perch openly in wet weather or take some shelter?

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  • Taller units are often sold specifically as trees because they give cats more opportunityto climb and perch.

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  • Walk carefully along the shore (water sandal or sneakers are advised for protection) with the goal of finding a high perch with a view of the entire rapid.

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  • The interior streams are stocked with trout, black bass and perch.

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  • As it turned out, it was her high perch that prevented them from walking into a trap.

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  • I held onto a precarious perch just before I let go.

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  • I shall continue to try for my first 2lb plus perch of the season.

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  • Then all of a sudden, the perch went away and we began to catch rudd.

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  • He also took a 1-1 perch on a tiny rudd.

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  • Known babe ruth grid a scene its perch overlooking.

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  • Jeff Richards caught roach to 1lb, and good size perch, and up to Sunday he had caught more skimmers than roach.

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  • With a catch between them of Roach, Perch and three good skimmers they recorded their 3 rd medal in 4 years.

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  • But 7E, very sensibly, remained on her perch, ducking as 08's outstretched talons whistled past again and again.

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  • The male's song is a medley of slightly wheezy warbling notes, usually sung from a perch in a tree.

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  • Fish are abundant, especially coarse fish such as pike, perch, roach, dace and barbel.

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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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  • Plain in plumage, being greyish brown above and dull white below, while its quills are dingy black, variegated with white, there is little about the mocking-bird's appearance beyond its graceful form to recommend it; but the lively gesticulations it exhibits are very attractive, and therein its European rival in melody is far surpassed, for the cock-bird mounts aloft in rapid circling flight, and, alighting on a conspicuous perch, pours forth his ever-changing song to the delight of all listeners; while his actions in attendance on his mate are playfully demonstrative and equally interest the observer.

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  • Originally designed as a perch for fowls which sang to the deities at daybreak, this toni subsequently came to be erroneously regarded as a gateway characteristic of the ShintO shrine.

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  • Other fish native to the waters of the state are the sturgeon, catfish, perch (locally called pike), buffalo fish, flathead and sucker.

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  • The few sportsmen who have visited the higher parts of the great northern rivers have found excellent trout-fishing, with pike, perch, char and grayling, the char occurring in the uppermost parts of the rivers, and the grayling below them.

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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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  • Oysters, crabs, shrimp and terrapins are also abundant here, and in the inland streams are some pike, perch, trout and catfish.

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  • The menu features fresh local catches, such as pike, perch, and bullhead, and an assortment of other reliably delicious entrees and sandwiches.

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  • I can see from my perch a window downstairs in back remains open to catch the lovely spring breeze.

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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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  • But suddenly the dimples ceased, for they were produced by the perch, which the noise of my oars had seared into the depths, and I saw their schools dimly disappearing; so I spent a dry afternoon after all.

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  • Large numbers of shad, blue fish, weak fish (squeteague), alewives, Spanish mackerel, perch, bass, croakers (Micropogon undulatus), mullet, menhaden, oysters and clams are caught in the sounds, in the lower courses of the rivers flowing into them, or in the neighbouring waters of the sea.

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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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  • They are followed by the great sturgeon (Acipenser huso), the pike, the bream and the pike perch (Leucioperca sandra).

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  • The rivers and lakes are generally well stocked with fish, such as salmon, trout of various species, gwyniad and vendace (especially in the north), pike, eels, perch of various species, turbot, bream and roach.

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  • In the brackish waters of the east coast sea fish are found, together with pike, perch and other fresh-water forms. The crayfish is common in many places in central and southern Sweden.

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  • At length the wind rose, the mist increased, and the waves began to run, and the perch leaped much higher than before, half out of water, a hundred black points, three inches long, at once above the surface.

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  • Poor John Field!--I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it--thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country--to catch perch with shiners.

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  • Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped.

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  • The city has lumber and fishing interests (perch, whitefish, sturgeon, pickerel, bass, &c. being caught in Saginaw Bay), large machine shops and foundries (value of products in 1905, $ 1, 743, 1 55, or 31% of the total of the city's factory products), and various manufactures, including ships (wooden and steel), wooden ware, woodpipe, veneer, railroad machinery, cement, alkali and chicory.

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  • There are Federal hatcheries at Swanton (for pike perch and yellow perch) and at Holden (for trout).

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  • Whitefish, bass, trout and pickerel are an important food supply obtained from the waters of the lake, and some perch, catfish and sunfish are caught in the rivers and brooks.

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  • It is navigable by vessels of 50 tons as far up as Bridge of Earn, and is a notable fishing stream, abounding with salmon and trout, perch and pike being also plentiful.

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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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  • By this it is brought into contact with the fin of a fish, such as perch, stickleback or others, and effects a hold thereon by means of the toothed edge of its shells.

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  • Perch, sunfish, trout, bass, pike and pickerel abound in many of the streams. Yellow perch are especially plentiful in the lakes on the Pocono plateau.

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  • There were eight hatcheries in 1910 and the number of fish distributed from these during 1908 was about 662,000,000; they consisted chiefly of pickerel, yellow perch, walleyed pike, white fish, herring, blue pike, trout and shad.

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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 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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  • It is wonderful with what elaborateness this simple fact is advertised--this piscine murder will out--and from my distant perch I distinguish the circling undulations when they are half a dozen rods in diameter.

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  • Some catfish, shad, smelt, halibut, herring, perch, sturgeon, flounders, oysters, clams, crabs and crawfish are also obtained from Oregon waters.

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  • Though fruit-trees will not bear there is an abundance of edible berries; the rivers and lakes abound with trout, perch, pike and other fish, and in the lower waters with salmon; and the cod, herring, halibut and Greenland shark in the northern seas attract numerous Norwegian and Russian fishermen.

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  • A very fine freshwater fish is the Murray cod, which sometimes weighs Too lb; and the golden perch, found in the same river, has rare beauty of colour.

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  • The lakes, ponds and streams afford some of the best trout fishing in the country, and many of them also abound in pickerel, pike, perch, black bass and land-locked salmon.

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  • The wall-eyed pike taken in 1902 were valued at $16,915 (210,936 lb); white fish, $5777 (80,191 lb); pickerel, $4144 (51,711 lb); yellow perch, $ 2 575 (43,9 1 7 lb); sturgeon, $20 5 1 (1 5,59 0 lb), and suckers, $ 18 54 (37,375 lb); other varieties taken in smaller quantities included smelt, sun-fish and eels.

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  • Brook trout are found, especially in the streams in the western part of the state, and bass, pickerel, perch and smaller fish occur in the rivers and other inland waters.

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  • The waters of the Chesapeake Bay are especially rich in oysters and crabs, and there, also, shad, alewives, " striped " (commonly called " rock ") bass, menhaden, white perch and weak-fish (" sea-trout ") occur in large numbers.

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  • Many of the lakes and rivers have been stocked with trout and salmon or bass; some, with smelt; the fresh waters of the state also contain pickerel, perch, pouts, eels, suckers, dace, sunfish and shiners.

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  • Next in importance were the catches of menhaden, shad, clams, squeteague and alewives; while minor catches were made of crabs, croaker, bluefish, butterfish, catfish, perch and spotted and striped bass.

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  • Salmon, lampreys and eels are caught in some of the larger rivers; trout abound in the streams of the northern provinces; but many fresh-water fish common elsewhere in Europe, including pike, perch, tench and chub, are not found.

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  • Hippopotami and crocodiles abound in the rivers, which are well stocked with many kinds of fish, including varieties resembling perch and bream; and otters make their home in the river banks.

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  • When a strip of yellow lit the edge of the night sky, Taran returned to his perch in a large window facing the sunrise.

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  • Fish taken in the lakes include perch, pike, char and trout in Windermere, Ennerdale, Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, &c., and the gwyniad or fresh-water herring in Ullswater.

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  • In the north-west of England and in Wales this mile lasted as 1.56 British miles till 1500; and the perch of those parts was correspondingly longer till this century (31).

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  • They sat in silence throughout the afternoon, until the sun sank far enough out of the sky to perch on the ocean.

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  • There are large quantities of salmon in the lower Columbia river, in Gray's and Willapa harbours, and in Puget Sound; oyster fisheries in Gray's and Willapa harbours and in Puget Sound; cod, perch, flounders, smelt, herring and sardines in these and other salt waters.

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  • It will perch on the topmost bough of a tree, if a tree be near, to watch his proceedings, and the cock exhibits all the astounding gesticulations in which the males of so many other Limicolae indulge during the breeding-season - with certain variations, however, that are peculiarly its own.

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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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