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Across
1. Meaning middle, intermediate
(prefix).
5. Any of the four longitudinal
segments or portions of flesh,
which has been removed from a
halibut carcass by knife cuts made
parallel to the backbone of the
fish.
7. A mass of material carried by the
blood stream, such as blood clot,
air bubble, cancer or other tissue
cells, fat, cardiac vegetations,
clumps of bacteria, or a foreign
body, until it lodges in a blood
vessel and obstructs it.
8. Prefix meaning half, partly.
9. Not native; introduced from a
foreign place or country. Exotics
are usually from a completely
different fauna and may carry
diseases and parasites which
native fish have no resistance to,
be major predators on native
species, or compete for habitat
and food.
11. (prefix) Outside, outer, external.
12. Horse mackerel (Decapterus spp.)
dried after soaking in special
salt water, preserved for years.
13. A gully; a small, steep-sided and
flat-bottomed channel in an arid
area, usually dry but sometimes
with permanent water.
14. Prefix meaning all, universally.
15. Worldwide simultaneous change in
sea level.
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Down
2. 1)A young salmonid which has
developed silvery coloring on its
sides, obscuring the parr marks,
and which is about to migrate or
has just migrated into the sea, 2)
to undergo the transformation from
parr to smolt.
3. Weight of a stock or of a
component of a stock, e.g.,
'spawning biomass' is the combined
weight of mature animals. Standing
stock is an alternative term for
biomass. Also, the mass of living
tissues in either an individual or
cumulatively across organisms in a
population or ecosystem.
4. Said of a character or structure
that has evolved to a less
developed state from its ancestral
state.
5. Flesh of white fish such as cod or
haddock added to a mixture of
milk, fish broth, flour or other
binding ingredients and seasoning,
made into balls and cooked.
Marketed as semi-preserved, canned
or frozen.
6. Said of a caudal fin with a longer
lower lobe.
10. A short weighted plank with fish
lures, controlled from shore and
tending to shear outwards when
pulled through the water.
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