bottom fish
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The healthy system is highly energy-efficient — with sediment-dwelling invertebrates and bottom fish feeding on the rain of algae, and then birds and large-bodied mammals, such as walrus and whales, scooping them up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Retail investors may have been "trying to bottom fish and got washed out with the recent new low," he said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2015
I remember fishing Puget Sound for bottom fish when I was a child.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2013
Randy Smith, a commercial fisherman who specializes in shrimp, crab and bottom fish, said he had escaped Crescent City Harbor early on Friday after being warned that big waves were headed his way.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2011
There might be some danger to bottom fish in the vicinity, but I think the water would get so hot from the lava that fish would avoid it, anyway.
From The Flaming Mountain by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
