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the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U

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A prior PDF was developed for the parameter r only (Appendix 2) on the basis of Atlantic Croaker demographics (Appendix 3).
Spotting a tarpon near the surface, a whole croaker or trout is fired in front of him and the hookup is usually immediate.
As the size composition of the whitemouth croakers differed between regions, morphometric comparisons were performed only between individuals over 350 mm TL.
If it's been dry in August and September look for the Croaker Hole in Lake George to be paved with flatties, while rain will push them closer to the ocean.
In 2004, 2005 and 2007, both the Argentine and whitemouth croakers were massive targets for Group 3 vessels, the same occurring for Brazilian codling (Urophycis brasiliensis), in 2005.
It seems the entire world is crazy for frogs, and we are surrounded by the croakers from Walnut to Gulfport.
Atlantic croakers spawn in coastal waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico from September to May, depending on the region, and postlarvae are transported into estuaries where they take residence in marshes and seagrass beds.
Female croakers caught during this period were found to have a decreased level of aromatase, the key chemical needed to produce estrogen and ovaries.
Fishers who work in the open sea use, preferably, specific gillnets for catching bluefish, croakers, mullet and codling, while those in the north and south bays employ driftnets for white shrimp and gillnets for fishes (SEAP, IBAMA and PROZEE, 2005).
A close cousin to the Tom Swifty is the Croaker. Croakers, invented by Roy Bongartz, also involve the punderful connecting of a statement to a quotation, except that the verb, rather than the adverb, supplies the pun:
Peter Thomas and his colleagues at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas have now shown that some Atlantic croakers (Micropogonias undulatus) in the Gulf of Mexico have underdeveloped sperm and eggs.
Catfish, mullet, jacks, croakers, cowfish, guitarfish, stingrays, crabs and crayfish, are common meals for the lemon shark.