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  • The Oceanic White Tip is not a great threat to bathers and or in-shore fishing, but the most dangerous for anyone shipwrecked (boat or airplane) in the open waters.

    Shark Week 5 Deadliest Sharks | myFiveBest 2009

  • While there are extensive articles on in-shore fisheries in Africa, many people who study pastoral people in Africa do not know about any research on fisheries.

    Khadija Sharife: East Africa's Looming Famine - Gibe III 2010

  • He stopped production of the Navy's futuristic DDG-1000 destroyer and postponed its CG (X) cruiser while increasing the purchase of Littoral Combat Ships, useful for in-shore operations that are far more likely to engage the Navy than a full-scale sea battle (last fought in World War II).

    A War Within 2010

  • Violent explosion about two miles in-shore broke glasses in the steward's pantry, then bow and stern of U-boat appeared separately before vanishing for ever.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Offshore drilling is here to stay in Louisiana and Texas, but whether in-shore waters are opened elsewhere and additional offshore drilling is allowed is an open question.

    Bryan Gobin: Forrest Gump's Bayou: Bubba vs. Bubba on BP Spill 2010

  • DGNP has sufficient size, altitudinal and climatic diversity and ecological elements necessary for the long-term conservation of the park's terrestrial ecosystems and in-shore marine ecosystems and their biological diversity, including endemic and migratory species.

    Desembarco del Granma National Park, Cuba 2009

  • This in-shore wind farm con is just that, a big fat WAG con on the Welsh public.

    A Bitter Wind. Glyn Davies 2008

  • The department took delivery of the Lilian Ngoyi in November last year, the first of three state-of-the-art in-shore environmental protection vessels commissioned by to boost fishery compliance.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Three in-shore patrol vessels - which will also patrol the South

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • It is extremely common on all the islands throughout the group, and lives exclusively on the rocky sea-beaches, being never found, at least I never saw one, even ten yards in-shore.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

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