sculpins
- plural of sculpin.
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Affected species include the brown and rainbow trout, mountain whitefish and sculpins that are a food source for the larger fish.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
In the algae-filled ponds of the New Delta East—land created by the undammed Elwha—we netted hundreds of knuckle-size sculpins, sticklebacks, snails, and baby flounder, along with lots of perfectly round beaver poop.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 26, 2016
Two poisonings have also hurt the fish population and trout food sources, including sculpins and other marine wildlife trout eat.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 5, 2016
The very air was fishy, being perfumed with dead sculpins, hard-heads and dogfish strewn plentifully on the beach.—You see, children, the village is but little changed since your mother and I were young.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
To use a Rivermouth saying, he was always catching sculpins when everyone else with the same bait was catching mackerel.
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
