WORD OF THE DAY
shark
My guess is that you accept the slim possibility that a shark might get you, and swim in the ocean anyway.
There are also important fisheries for cod, caplin, halibut, red fish (Sebastes) and nepisak (Cyclopterus lumpus); a shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is taken for the oil from its liver; and sea-trout are found in the streams and small lakes of the south.
($12,940); shrimp, 306,500 lb ($ 12,452); terrapin, 27,521 lb ($5,580); mullet, 138,000 lb ($3782); jewfish, 79,500 lb ($373 8); channel bass, 102,000 lb ($355 0); squeteague, 85,700 lb ($3 0 59); shark, 90,000 lb ($1800).
Though fruit-trees will not bear there is an abundance of edible berries; the rivers and lakes abound with trout, perch, pike and other fish, and in the lower waters with salmon; and the cod, herring, halibut and Greenland shark in the northern seas attract numerous Norwegian and Russian fishermen.
Western Australia, again, is not favoured with many inlets, Exmouth Gulf and Shark's Bay being the only bays of any size.
From its habit of coming to the surface in calm weather, showing its high dorsal fin above the water, it has also received the name of "sun-fish," which it shares with Orthagoriscus and the basking shark.
Once a fed-up loan shark who'd had enough hog-tied the one he caught—he didn't care which—and branded a "B" on the left cheek of his backside.
My guess is that you accept the slim possibility that a shark might get you, and swim in the ocean anyway.