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It has fully scaled cheeks and gill covers, and the top of the head has few or no scales.
The monofilament gill net is an unforgiving device, designed to snag and tear the gills.
The main focus of most efforts to restrict gear is the gill net, considered to be the main cause of the depletion of local fisheries.
It's the gill nets though, and drift nets we find, the really, really large ones, and they're the ones we're most concerned about actually.
Speaking as a former bailiff in the region, I can assure you that many island crofters prefer the use of a gill net to a fishing rod.
Next, place two fingers just into the gill cover and slide the fingers forward until you reach the jaw bone.
The gill covers are also armoured with sharp edges that can draw blood if handled without care.
The opercular series comprises each gill cover and generally consists of four bones.
Seines at least collected less mud and debris than weirs and staked gill nets.
At school we had a free gill of milk each morning break as part of the government's plan to build a nation of healthy young things.
Combined with strong jaw muscles and gill covers that assist in forcefully expelling a stream of water, the mouth acts like a water pistol.
A new report reveals that Tanzania's population of dugongs is on the verge of collapse as a result of accidental entanglement in gill nets.
Organisms along the lines of the cephalochordate amphioxus use the gill apparatus for filter feeding.
Although they retain the chordate characters as adults gill slits are present only in the embryonic stages of land vertebrates.
Another myth is the claim human embryos go through a fish-like stage and display gill slits.
This may be illustrated by the gill slits in the embryos of higher vertebrates like reptiles, birds and mammals.
It shows a dense arrangement of gill filaments, which in clams like the Venus clam here shown are grouped into similar, multiple folds.
Water is taken in through the spiracles, passed over the gills, and expelled through the gill slits on the underside of the body.
Ichthyostega had seven digits in the feet and still retained some gill arch rudiments and fin rays in the tail.
Adults are uniformly brownish gray, shiny on top and pale on the ventral side and around gill slits.
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All except an outgrowth of one gill slit, which becomes the passage of the ear and ear-drum.
Five grains of extractum pancreatis and ten grains of sodium bicarbonate are added to one gill of warm water.
These junctures are so slight that they break readily when a specimen of a gill is handled, leaving the filaments free.
Ruling inks are made to dry quickly by using half a gill of methylated spirits to every pint of ink.
In most of the higher fishes a small accessory gill is developed in the skin of the inner side of the opercle.
Stir a gill of cream to the quenelle meat, then use enough of the spinach to give it a fine light-green color.
Each leg, except those of the last pair, has on its first segment an exopodite with a gill like those of the maxilliped.
Continue to gill and comb by section until the entire sliver has been gilled and combed.
After combing, the wool is gilled again by machines known as finisher gill boxes, and wound into a ball called a top.
With the opening of the sockeye season on the Fraser and in the north the Japs abandoned trolling for the gill net.
In the genus Nucula we have an example of a lamellibranch retaining this plume-like form of gill.
A dariole is a small straight-sided tin mould, holding rather less than a gill.
Another kind of gill is found in the genus dero and in the allied Aulophorus.
Mr. gill had the house for eight years, and was the last landlord.
Dissolve over a fire an ounce of isinglass in a gill of water.
Your fingers should be gently put inside a gill cover until you reach the gristly jaw bone where there are no teeth.
Add half a gill of kirschwasser, and pour at once into jelly glasses.
Moisten with water a gill of rice flour, and mix it with the rubbed rice.
A gill of cold-drawn castor-oil, added to the above, would be beneficial.
A lipped cylinder that holds a little over a gill is the best size.
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