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large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

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Site fidelity and seasonal movement patterns of adult California Sheephead Semieossyphus pulcher (Labridae): an acoustic monitoring study.
For example, in our study, age-5 sheephead ranged from 212 to 465 mm FL, and 350-mm-FL specimens ranged from age 2 to age 8.
Freshwater Drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) also known as sheephead, grinder, croaker, and gaspergou are widely distributed across the Central United States, South Central Canada, and Eastern Mexico.
They can boast TV steeplejack Fred Dibnah, radio babe Sara Cox, number crunching Johnny Ball, World Cup voice Kenneth Wolstenholme, drama queen Ian McKellen, ex-Crackerjack wimp Stu Francis, two of the Buzzcocks, the Flitcroft Brothers, Francis Lee, Frank Finlay, Hilda Baker and 'Sheephead' from Soccer AM.
IN a devastating snub to Peter Kay, Soccer AM's stripped-to-the-waist Sheephead - aka Joe Worsley - switched on Bolton's Christmas lights this week.
Metteba also had the division's Big Fish--a 1.09-lb sheephead. As a result, he also took home a Wilderness Inquiry gift certificate, $300, and another Berkley Rod and Reel Combo.
With only his paranoid thoughts for company the former heroin addict, nicknamed 'sheephead' by local youngsters because of his wild blond hair, started to see George Harrison as the 'phantom menace'.
For example, the sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher), a wrasse that normally inhabits waters south of Point Conception, California, appeared in Monterey after both the 1982-1983 and 1992 ENSO events (Lenarz et al.
The effects of sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) predation on red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) populations: an experimental analysis.
Home range and habitat utilization of adult California sheephead, Semicossyphuspulcher (Labridae), in a temperate no-take marine reserve.
However, the magnitude of this variation was not unusual, as Spot-tail Shark (Carcharhinus sorrah) in Australia used areas varying between 1 and 7802 ha as home ranges (Knip et al., 2012), and home ranges of California Sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher), another protogynous hermaphrodite, spanned 2 orders of magnitude (Topping et al., 2005).
It was created, written, directed, produced, and acted by the De La Rosas and Navajo folks from the community, and was funded and distributed by Sheephead Films, a company founded by Shonie and his wife Andee De La Rosa.
Abram - nicknamed Sheephead for his untamed blond locks - believed Harrison was the devil and had possessed him.
Other local fisheries were exploiting "fat-heads" (California sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher), "whitefish" (ocean whitefish, Caulolatilus princeps), and "red rock-cod" (likely the yelloweye rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, formerly known as the red snapper).
On this occasion she provided us with a number of images of one of the individuals that was red and she described it as quite territorial as it chased off a California sheephead and lunged at Ms.