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  • Coastal species harvested are anchovy, sardine, mackerel and horse-mackerel.

    Iberian Coastal large marine ecosystem 2008

  • For two hours they chugged out over a smooth sea, trolling a line behind and catching two large, brilliantly coloured horse-mackerel.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • For two hours they chugged out over a smooth sea, trolling a line behind and catching two large, brilliantly coloured horse-mackerel.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • They ride, some persons have told me, on the horse-mackerel, but of that I have no knowledge.

    Nautilus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • John took the splendid thing, and straightway lost himself and the world in a dream of rapture, in which he descended to the depths that his soul desired, and played at spinning tops with the sea-boys, and rode a horse-mackerel, and did many other wonderful things.

    Nautilus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • The conclusions of this PhD defended at the UPV / EHU state that, although initially both groups accumulate nutrients in different proportions, both anchovy and sardine and the horse-mackerel finally coincide with the same the biochemical composition.

    innovations-report 2008

  • On the other hand, the horse-mackerel shows highly variable percentages during the first stages of growths, that stabilise at later stages, and reach values similar to those of other species.

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  • From the start of the development stage of the anchovy, sardine and horse-mackerel, proteins are their major food component, followed by lipids and carbohydrates.

    innovations-report 2008

  • The Bay of Biscay, a good feeding environment for the larvae of anchovy, sardine and horse-mackerel

    innovations-report 2008

  • The larva of the horse-mackerel, on the other hand, is like a tadpole; it swims better than a clupeid larva of the same size - thus enabling it to flee predators more easily - and it has a bigger mouth to capture more and bigger prey.

    innovations-report 2008

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