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surfperch

NOUN
  1. small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America

How To Use surfperch In A Sentence

  • Kelp beds and offshore reefs create habitat for a wide range of fish, with surfperch being the most common.
  • Adults let senorita fish and several species of surfperch clean them.
  • Like all surfperch, shiners are viviparous, that is, they do not lay eggs but bear live young.
  • I got my protein from spear fishing in the sea for surfperch, halibut, sheephead, opaleye, and octopus.
  • Shiner surfperch have a strongly compressed, elongate, rather deep body, an upward slanting smallmouth, relatively large eyes, and a single continuous dorsal fin with slightly longer spines than the soft rays.
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