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- n. Plural form of fingerling.
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“Young fish are called fingerlings when they become finger size.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Feds Unveil Plan for Offshore Gulf Fish Farms
“It would also be interesting to know: if the whitefish are netted as fingerlings from the lakes and transferred to an unpolluted environment, can they be raised and later consumed safely?”
“Any long thin-skinned potatoes can be called fingerlings.”
“State biologists are trying to reproduce flounder artificially by extracting eggs and sperm, incubating them in tanks and setting the baby flounder (called fingerlings) loose in the Gulf.”
“The fingerlings were the largest available, and breeder-size fish also were stocked.”
“fingerlings," or walleyes raised in ponds during the summer and stocked into lakes in the fall.”
“And the next cycle of production will produce billions -- yes, billions with a B'' -- of salmon fingerlings in order for hundreds of millions to return to Alaska so Alaskans can kill tens of millions or, as was the case this year, 16 tens of millions.”
The Huffington Post: AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed
“Here, he hatches two breeds of tilapia, which are put in cages as fingerlings.”
“Some fingerlings head downstream and go out into the Pacific and take a 4-year journey off the coast of Asia.”
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