How to Use paddlefish in a Sentence

paddlefish

noun
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  • Bring a rod on the 8.8-mile Hell’s Half Acre loop, rich in paddlefish.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Koerner fills the lakes with young paddlefish and pays the owners of the lakes a portion of her proceeds.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2018
  • The overfished paddlefish, a cousin of the sturgeon, once ranged the Yangtze River before the river was dammed and polluted.
    — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
  • This is where the American paddlefish comes into as the team used sperm from this fish to start the gynogenesis in the sturgeon.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
  • During was after the secrets inside the bones of the paddlefish and sturgeons preserved at Tanis.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But experts say unless action is taken – and soon – more species will follow the fate of the baiji and Chinese paddlefish.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The paddlefish may be a harbinger for many other giant fish.
    — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
  • For one thing, Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish live on opposite sides of the globe.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • The paddlefish is another close cousin to sturgeons and produces caviar that looks very similar.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The samples included three lower jaw bones and teeth from paddlefish and three sturgeon pectoral fins.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Much like their modern counterparts, the ancient sturgeons and paddlefish of the Hell Creek Formation grew in cycles.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The article told the tale of a lucky angler who snagged a 100-pound-plus paddlefish (another name for spoonbill) while fishing for bluegill at Jacomo.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 13 June 2018
  • Keystone Lake in Oklahoma isn't the only place where huge paddlefish reside.
    — Wes Johnson, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
  • The baiji, a Chinese river dolphin, is likely the first dolphin species driven to extinction by humans, and the Chinese paddlefish, which can grow 20 feet long, has not been seen in over a decade.
    — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Notable species have been declared extinct, including the Chinese dugong, the Chinese paddlefish and Yangtze sturgeon, and the white-handed gibbon.
    — Vanessa Hull, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The Chinese paddlefish was one of only two paddlefish species in existence.
    — National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2020
  • That could mean the last roe-bearing paddlefish may have already been pulled from the Ohio River by Indiana commercial fishermen.
    — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2020
  • The evolutionary paths of paddlefish and sturgeons diverged 184 million years ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Perhaps a Triceratops was lying in the sun, while in the river freshwater paddlefish, mouths gaping, were foraging plankton.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The bones of paddlefish and sturgeons who died in the Chicxulub Impact indicated that the asteroid struck in the spring, and a hadrosaur in Blagoveshchensk was presumed to have broken its ulna while eating leaves or mating.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Experts have also noticed a drastic decline of many native freshwater species of fish, like the now extinct Chinese paddlefish and sturgeon.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But the move, aimed at reviving inland fisheries, comes too late for the giant Chinese paddlefish, which was declared extinct late last year, seen off by overfishing, river damming and heavy pollution.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Open river conditions often benefit native species like lake sturgeon and paddlefish, which can swim hundreds of miles in search of preferable habitat.
    — Steve Hoffman / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
  • Construction on the Yangtze also fragmented the paddlefish's habitat.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2020
  • But that raises the question of why previous hybridization attempts between sturgeons and paddlefish failed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
  • There’s big fish magic in the waters of Tennessee’s Cherokee Lake, where yet another astonishing American paddlefish has been caught from the deep, clear reservoir.
    — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Scientists made this determination after studying the bones of paddlefish preserved in rocks in North Dakota.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
  • This is unlike the paternal paddlefish who feed on various zooplankton.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2020
  • The green paddlefish caviar in question is sourced sustainably in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Conservation.
    — Leah Bhabha, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2021
  • National Geographic reports that an average of 25 tons of paddlefish were harvested each year that decade.
    — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020

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