antisubmarine rocket
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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antisubmarine rocket ASROC a nuclear depth charge or homing torpedo that is launched from a surface ship.
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ABALONE FISHING SEASON TO OPEN APRIL 1
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...season for California's popular red abalone sport fishery will open April 1 in waters...ages who pursue this mollusk to have an abalone report card and to tag their catch immediately...exiting the water. "California's red abalone is a very important and valuable fishery...
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The abalone renaissance: the world's tastiest mollusk is making a tentative comeback--on farms, in restaurants, and maybe, one day, in the Pacific.(The next frontier)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; TO GAZE UPON ABALONE is to be unimpressed. The glistening black...socks hauled from a marsh. The cats here at the Abalone Farm in Cayucos, California, snub them. Glancing at the red abalone resting on a plate beside the stove, Brad Buckley...
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Abalone: the farmed mollusk is a unique product for those willing to pay for it.(Product Spotlight)
Magazine article from: Seafood Business; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...sashimi, chances are you've never eaten abalone. Furthermore, you probably haven't...restaurant that offers it. The supply of wild abalone in North America is all but nonexistent...culprits in the marked decline of wild abalone populations on the West Coast and worldwide...
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Abalone ready to eat
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 2/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...rest, the Roe-eye abalone." The big Greenlip...smaller packs with two abalones. The abalone is not bleached...hampers of Sea Prince abalone products for the festive...RM168. Two big Greenlip abalones in the vacuum pack...
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Abalone mariculture in China.
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research; 12/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...mariculture. Genetic improvement of abalone has drawn much attention...normal controls. KEY WORDS: Abalone, Haliotis discus hannai Ino...INTRODUCTION Six species of abalones are naturally distributed along...clathrata Reeve (Nie 1992). Abalone aquaculture has been dominated...
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Abalone: a devoted following keeps prices high for this marvelous mollusk. (Product Spotlight).
Magazine article from: Seafood Business; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; A lowly sea snail, the abalone is one of the highest flyers in the...restaurants of more than $70 a pound, abalone meat, which must be pounded to be...heyday of the California commercial abalone fishery in the 1950s, divers were...
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Abalone Poachers Fined Huge Sums
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 6/19/1993; 700+ words
; ...which unfortunately is far more uncommon. Abalone, you know, the West coast seafood delicacy...more sublimely delicious than lobster. Abalone has always been expensive and hard to...high that poaching is a problem and so abalone checkpoints. Sam Gugino writes about...
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POPULAR ABALONE SPORT FISHERY SLATED TO OPEN APRIL 1
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...for northern California's famous red abalone sport fishery will open April 1 in waters...July, as it does every year, to allow abalone a break during a traditionally high take period. "Currently the north coast abalone resource appears healthy with densities...
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Abalone dilemma.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 11/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...explain the following: When the listing of abalone on Cites Appendix III was initiated in 2004, the purpose was to protect the wild abalone from the high levels of poaching, and...associated with the legal export of farmed abalone had not been fully taken into account...
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ABALONE FISHING SEASON OPENS APRIL 1 NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...following press release: California's popular red abalone sport fishery season will open April 1 in waters north of San Francisco Bay. Anyone who takes abalone must record their catch on an abalone report card and tag the animal with tags corresponding...
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abalone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
abalone , popular name in the United States for...shell provides a rooflike covering for the abalone and is perforated by a row of holes on...and some shells were exported to Asia. Abalone are classified in the phylum Mollusca...
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Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...divers, had already been established to gather abalone, a gourmet mollusk. From the ranks of abalone divers came the founders of Cal Dive: Lad...to make a living in the dangerous world of abalone diving. Lad Handelman's first venture was...
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Antinuclear Movement
Book article from: Pollution A to Z
...radiation. Chief among these were the Clamshell Alliance and the Abalone Alliance. A coalition of New England activists formed the...beginning in August 1976 and continuing through early 1977. The Abalone Alliance mobilized pacifists and environmental activists in...
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otter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ocean at the mouths of rivers. The sea otter swims on its back and in this position carries its cub and eats its meals of abalone, crab, and sea urchin, sometimes using a rock to smash open the shells. Relentless hunting of the animal led to its near...
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mother-of-pearl
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...are the pearl oyster, found in warm and tropical seas, chiefly in Asia; freshwater pearl mussels, which live in many rivers of the United States, Europe, and Asia; and the abalone of California, Japan, and other Pacific regions.
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