Going down to the ledges, he pulled off a big armful of rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
You'll find your dory in the rockweed about fifty feet east of the cove. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
"I've made their dory fast in a little gulch among the rockweed," said he. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
In less than an hour he was back, bringing the sweater minus the rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The pictures of the rockweed are especially good, they make me miss the ocean so much. From Wordnik.com. ["...I heard the earth inhale, moments before..."] Reference
A healthy stand of rockweed (Fucus gardneri) growing on a boulder in Prince William Sound. From Wordnik.com. [Exxon Valdez oil spill] Reference
At the close of each afternoon he climbed the bluff with his sweater stuffed with rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The violent throbbings of her heart could be seen undulating the long hair as the moaning sea tosses the rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Poor man! lying crushed and torn, like a piece of rockweed wrenched from its rock by a storm and thrown up withered upon the beach!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Dramatic initial loss of cover by the most important biogenic habitat provider, the rockweed Fucus gardneri, triggered a cascade of indirect impacts. From Wordnik.com. [Exxon Valdez oil spill] Reference
In New England they are tiny sea snails picked from the rockweed at low tide, but in New Zealand cockles are buttery-tasting clams with very little sand and no neck. From Wordnik.com. [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference
Not even a body risen from the rockweed and found floating by two guys early one Sunday in a rented rowboat with a cage for trapping crabs—the nibbled body of Jimmy Costanza, age whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
After apparent recovery of Fucus, previously oiled shores exhibited another mass rockweed mortality in 1994, a cyclic instability probably caused by simultaneous senility of a single-aged stand. From Wordnik.com. [Exxon Valdez oil spill] Reference
But far more common are the sparrows, robins, finches, cardinals, and grackles who peck through the rockweed and eel grass, ride the branches of the wax myrtles in the salt breezes, and roost on top of the dock pilings. From Wordnik.com. [Too drunk to get drunk: an amateur naturalist reports] Reference
She says last summer, a lot of that rockweed was disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
He goes after rockweed, lighters vessels, and saves wrecks. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
Now a canadian company has started harvesting rockweed in the bay too. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
I picked up a couple of clams and examined them, poked at the rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [BC Bloggers] Reference
Some seaweed - rockweed - can lose 90\% of water and live when water comes back. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Julie Keene makes her living harvesting periwinkles from the rockweed that grows in the bay. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
Keene noticed a larger number of rockweed harvesters in the bay and immediately grew concerned. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
They spent the summer taking photographs of areas of the bay where they say rockweed was harvested. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
State regulations require rockweed be cut no less than 16 inches to the holdfast, where it attaches to rock. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
According to Sheehan Acadian Seaplants Limited harvests no more than 17 percent of all rockweed biomass in a harvest area. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
We also saw rockweed floating; and a small land bird came on board the ship, from which we concluded we were approaching land. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680] Reference
Sheehan works for Acadian Seaplants Limited, a Canadian company that harvests rockweed for use in everything from food additives to fertilizers. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
"I hope that our children can go out, our boys and my daughter ... will go out someday and make their college tuition by raking rockweed," said Sheehan. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
Acadian seaplants limited says it has been harvesting rockweed in Canada for more than three decades and it gets high marks from some Canadian officials. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
The rockweed coalition has gathered support for a moratorium from several downeast communities including Pleasant Point Reservation, The Town of Pembroke, and Washington County Commissioners. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
But now the great event has come off, I'm going to break training and give the rockweed a rest. ". From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
"Now," continued he, "I'll tell you why I've been up into the woods every afternoon with that sweater of rockweed. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
A phosphorescent trail of fire all night, the rockweed and sea leek floating past by day telling their tale of some far land. From Wordnik.com. [Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward] Reference
I was eleven years old when he went out for cigarettes, a warm evening with men playing pinochle inside a storefront club and radio voices everywhere on the street, someone’s always playing a radio, and they took him out near Orchard Beach, where the shoreline is crannied with remote inlets, and they dropped him into the lower world, his body suspended above the rockweed, in the soft organic murk. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
"With this rockweed harvest i can definitely see the birth of an industry here and someday we may be growing this marine algae here in the bay. From Wordnik.com. [WCSH6.com - NEWS CENTER Local News] Reference
More rockweed!. From Wordnik.com. ["...I heard the earth inhale, moments before..."] Reference
Still more rockweed!. From Wordnik.com. ["...I heard the earth inhale, moments before..."] Reference
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