NOUN
- fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder)
How To Use groundfish In A Sentence
- It was not until foreign and domestic investment was encouraged in shoreside processing of groundfish in the late 1980s that these communities were transformed. Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)
- Trawlermen in pursuit of these and other groundfish like pollock and haddock drag steel weights and rollers as well as nets behind their boats, devastating huge areas of the sea floor as they go.
- Groundfish - bottom-dwellers such as cod and flounder that are harvested with giant dragnets - were especially hard hit.
- Not just cod but other groundfish, including flounder, halibut and haddock, were decimated.
- This suggests that many were fishing directly from the shoreline with nets for pelagics such as salmon, herring, and mackerel, and baited lines for groundfish.
- The Northwest Atlantic's other groundfish include haddock, halibut, pollock, flounder and plaice.
- The Northwest Atlantic's other groundfish include haddock, halibut, pollock, flounder and plaice.
- Groundfish are demersal fish species; such as cod, halibut, haddock, and pollock, that feed at or near the ocean floor.
- The new groundfish fishing season had opened, a maze of allocations and quotas that threw him into reverse. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- Ecotrust studied the implementation of and fallout from what was considered to be a progressive IFQ-based management system in Canada's West Coast geoduck, halibut, sablefish, groundfish trawl and shellfish fisheries.