Laurea reached out and her fingers brushed the smooth outline of the abalone shell on her father's chest. |
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It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone and malachite inlays. |
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They have spent the time analyzing the naturally occurring bacteria in abalone guts. |
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She set up a trading company, selling Australian lobsters, abalone and king crabs all over the world. |
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He found an abalone shell on the beach and uses that for his incense brazier. |
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It can be found feeding on crabs, shrimps, clams, scallops, abalone and small fish. |
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In abalone, a second major acrosomal protein also evolves extremely rapidly. |
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Some sea shells, such as abalone, have been scrimshawed and horn, particularly cattle horn, is also scrimshawed. |
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Otters mostly feed on invertebrates such as urchins, squid, octopus, crabs, abalone and other mollusks. |
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They come bearing gifts, a whole roasted suckling pig, delicacies like bird's nest soup and abalone and sweets. |
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The strandlopers, back in the 17th century, dined on mussels, abalone, crayfish and seals, on roots and fruits and edible seaweed. |
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Local marine reserves offer tide pools full of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone, and sea anemones. |
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An abalone farmer needs to know at what ammonia concentrations the abalone will die. |
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Arches restaurant is a Newport landmark, serving fresh fish, stone crab claws, and high-priced abalone. |
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The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins. |
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The red abalone, a seaweed-eating snail prized as a source of mother-of-pearl jewelry, is found off the coast of California. |
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Decorative inlay, depicting a delicate periwinkle design, is carried out in abalone, oak, and fruitwoods. |
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However, the farms were started up only recently, and it takes about seven years for the abalone to reach a size where they may be harvested. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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Remove abalone from shells and use scissors to trim the dark apron around each piece. |
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Because of this microstructure, the abalone shell can absorb a great deal of energy without failing. |
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The abalone shell is twice as tough as our high-tech ceramics. |
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Density of abalone appears highest in the kelp zone but decreases rapidly by depth. |
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Over 70 per cent of the sites that formerly had an abundance of abalone now contain no abalone at all. |
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Help her deliver the abalone into kelp beds and crevices, but watch out for other creatures and low oxygen levels. |
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As seawater temperature drops, abalone growth will slow and may even stop during very low temperature. |
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Hopefully, if poachers decide the risks are too great, the effervescent abalone will again shine brightly through B. C.'s shallow coastal waters. |
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In a similar fashion, pearls and abalone shells are iridescent from the interference caused by reflections from multiple layers of nacre. |
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In the case of the excruciatingly slow-growing red abalone, this could be ten to twelve years. |
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In the first one, we would select abalone that had a faster growth rate and so this wouldn't take five years for the abalone to become mature. |
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Northern abalone can coexist with sea otters, of course, but at relatively low densities, living and hiding in cracks and crevices. |
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Hand pick fresh crayfish in Elliston and feast on freshly-caught whiting, abalone and blue swimmer crabs in Streaky Bay and Ceduna. |
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There are one or two other eyes in gastropod mollusks that could qualify as pinhole eyes, notably those of the abalone genus Haliotis. |
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Isolated 12 polymorphic microsatellite DNA loci from northern abalone to use in the population survey and described in a primary publication. |
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The trouble is, her idea born from an abalone shell seems bound to turn up even more problems which are waiting to be solved. |
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Diving for abalone, the boy comes face to face with a huge fish, a terrifying-looking but friendly groper. |
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The population of wild northern abalone has been severely compromised and, as a result, the collection of wild abalone seed is not an option. |
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Estimating the total biomass for northern abalone populations is not practical due to the tendency of the animals to climb. |
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The future of abalone lies in a broad commitment to stop illegal harvesting. |
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The input layer neurons receive the inputs for the computations, like the length, diameter, and weight of an individual abalone. |
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The eyes and tail fins of both creatures are inlaid with iridescent abalone shell. |
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Iridescent abalone shell lights up the creatures' eyes, and the rim is embellished with inlaid opercula. |
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Rapidly evolving reproduction-related genes are also found in a variety of other taxa, including centric diatoms, gastropods, abalone, and humans. |
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In California, tourists have been pitted against career foragers, causing problems for wild mushrooms and abalone. |
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For an appetizer, try the shredded abalone with apple and jellyfish. |
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This scenario is similar to that of cultured abalone, where juveniles are fed high quality diets to improve vigour for grow out. |
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The cautious abalone have to be taught to eat it but soon catch on. |
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The action is an attempt to reverse the alarming declines over the past decade of previously plentiful species including red snapper, angel sharks and abalone. |
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Such was the case for lysin and an 18-kDa protein in abalone. |
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Here we have used the atomic force microscope to directly observe changes in the atomic lattice on a calcite seed crystal after the introduction of abalone shell proteins. |
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As illegal divers working for the Asian export market continue to thin abalone populations, the survivors are dying off as old maids and bachelors. |
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Huge abalone, crayfish, dogfish, beautiful seahorses, blue cod, southern pigfish and carpet sharks are just some of the inhabitants to look out for. |
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The sea snail perlemoen abalone is targeted by illegal fishing and remain overfished. |
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In order to produce hatchery abalone that are suitable for out-planting, what you want to do is keep them as close to the wild individuals as possible. |
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Heterosis and combining ability a diallel cross of three geographically isolated populations of Pacific abalone Haliotis discus hannai Ino. |
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Illegal fishing targets some of the most expensive species, including shrimp, fugu pufferfish, lobster, whole abalone and sea urchin uni. |
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The abalone species is a wildlife species that is likely to become endangered if nothing is done to reverse the factors leading to its extirpation or extinction. |
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If that was possible, then the viruses might be used as a template to grow and assemble electronic circuits, much like an abalone constructs its shell. |
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The mortality associated with the tagging and translocations was low including 1 dead pink abalone and 5 dead green abalone. |
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A MAN has been fined and banned from recreational fishing in Victoria after confusing his budgie smugglers for abalone smugglers. |
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Try using abalone gut, peeled prawns and cunji for bait for the bream and drummer found here. |
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Between 100,000 and 170,000 wet tons of Macrocystis are harvested annually in New Mexico for alginate extraction and abalone feed. |
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The project will meet the needs of the local market in terms of abalone, and groupers and the rest will be for export. |
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The winter melon, mushroom, cured ham and abalone soup I ate was good stuff with intricate layers of flavour and a pleasantly thick texture. |
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The program to restock abalone in the wild is dependent upon the successful development of a commercial aquaculture at the hatchery with annual sales of about one hundred thousand cultured abalone. |
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Here you can sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-ofpearl shell rendered almost extinct by overfishing. |
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The objective of the current study was to analyze the effects of shell morphological traits on body weight of reciprocal hybrid abalone. |
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The divergence of species-specific abalone sperm lysins is promoted by positive Darwinian selection. |
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Representatives from that country's abalone firm explained to the Canadians that the abalone thrived on the seaweed, dulse but had to be fed a substantial amount of kelp because it was easier to obtain. |
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Conch and abalone, however, must be pounded to tenderize the tough meat. |
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The northern abalone is also particularly susceptible to over-harvesting because it is slow-growing and long lived, taking many years to reach adulthood. |
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Cytological studies on artificially induced gynogenesis in the Pacific abalone. |
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The proposal by the Delegation of Canada to expand the scope to other gastropods, but to place emphasis on abalone in view of the difficulty in expanding the scope once established was not agreed to. |
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Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish. |
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The ebony was inlaid with a floral pattern of abalone bordered in mother-of-pearl and used for the guitar's bridge, finger-board and pickguard. |
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Our null hypothesis reads that juveniles of red abalone would feed nonselectively on the epilithic and epiphytic diatom films supplied. |
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He said the State had already achieved success in salmonoid farming, eels, mussels, ornamental fish, and abalone. |
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Visit an oyster shed and taste seafood from the waters of the Great Australian Bight in Streaky Bay, home to a large population of green-lipped abalone. |
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Publications on effects of inbreeding depression on production traits in abalone species and other shellfish species are scarce. |
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Factors influencing the ranching of the abalone species along the Namaqualand coast of South Africa. |
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Although all abalone fisheries have been closed to all user groups since December 1990, continued harvesting is the biggest threat to abalone's survival in the wild. |
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Raven wore a labret at that time set with abalone shell which was formerly very valuable, and it is from him that high-caste people afterward used those. |
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The pounds 108 broth requires five days' notice and showcases abalone, dried scallops, sea cucumber, ginseng, corn-fed chicken and Chinese mushrooms. |
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As a comparison with abalone, red meat muscle tissue consists of contractible myofibrils assembled into parallel fibrous bundles interconnected by collagen. |
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We climbed down the rocky cliffs and checked our weight belts, defogged our masks, and made sure we had our fishing licenses and abalone report cards. |
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Gynogenesis with ultraviolet ray irradiated sperm in the Pacific abalone. |
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A neurotrophic herpes virus infecting the gastropod, abalone, shares ancestry with oyster herpes virus and a herpes virus associated with amphioxus genome. |
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At the last-named you can also sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-of-pearl shell rendered almost extinct by over-fishing over decades. |
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To condition the abalone, a method called effective accumulative temperature control is used widely, and Laminaria japonica and Undaria pinnatifida are provided as food. |
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