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n. - Sluggish fish armored with tough bony scales.

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  • Then we had a delicious mystery on the end of the line -- a "squaretail," maybe, a genuine native Maine brook trout, which often ran 4 or 5 pounds in Sebago.
  • This is an old Adirondack method for squaretail trout of a bygone era, but it still works wherever spring trout feed along shorelines.
  • Given the dire report on endangered species that emerged from the IUCN conference earlier this week, this kind of tool can come none too soon: Ocean dwellers like the...
  • The squaretail coral grouper from the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific has been listed as vulnerable because it has become a luxury food.
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