How to Use billfish in a Sentence

billfish

noun

• Use a lip gaff in the front lower jaw, or a snooter for billfishes.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2018
• Points will be awarded for up to three billfish releases.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• For example, circle hooks must be used for billfish, sharks, reef fish, and striped bass in some areas and situations.
  — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
• These hostile zones also likely afford refuge for Humboldt squid from many of their own predators, such as tuna, billfish and sharks, Field points out.
  — Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2010
• The council has jurisdiction over the waters where 140 long-line vessels based in Hawaii — as well as a handful in American Samoa — fish mostly for tuna and billfish.
  — Christopher Pala, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Sabin actually caught and released 10 billfish during her 11-month trek, including a shortbill spearfish and roundscale spearfish.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2018
• Prince, a billfish expert who has since retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was stumped.
  — National Geographic, 4 Jan. 2018
• PSATs have been used in multiple studies of billfish and tunas, species that are notoriously difficult to study with conventional methods.
  — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
• A vast treasure trove of information on the secret lives of ocean predators is being revealed through pioneering efforts to monitor the movements of sharks, billfish, and bluefin tuna using cutting-edge technology.
  — Gary Strauss, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
• Fishing tournaments have to obtain federal permits to target highly migratory fish species including sharks, tunas and billfish, Jenkins said.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2017

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