shoals in English

noun
1
a large number of fish swimming together.
a shoal of bream
2
an area of shallow water, especially as a navigational hazard.
Two of the four ships managed to escape while the two others sought shelter in a shallow area of the shoal .
verb
1
(of fish) form shoals.
Those of the 57 entrants in Sunday's Tadcaster open not drawn in the bottom field struggled on a clear Wharfe at Smaws Ings as the fish shoaled up above the weir.
2
(of water) become shallower.
Such vertical facies changes indicate that water depth generally shoaled as sediment supply exceeded the formation of accommodation space, probably as global sea level fell.

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1. Squid travel in shoals.

2. MUSCLE SHOALS — Bradley “Brad” Houston Bolding, 45, Muscle Shoals, passed away on Sunday, February 7, 2021

3. Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands,

4. We could see shoals of tiny fish darting about.

5. La Pérouse then went on to discover French Frigate Shoals.

6. Part of the movie Leatherheads was filmed in Ware Shoals.

7. Local fishermen remember times when shoals of pilchards stretched for miles.

8. Before moving to Barbarise's current city of Muscle Shoals, AL, Barbarise …

9. The tadpoles of some spadefoot toads are gregarious and form large moving shoals.

10. But pirates lurked in the shoals of global commerce, ready to plunder the cargoes.

11. It is believed that Belemnites were built for speed and that they probably lived in shoals

12. Unfortunately it is on these rocky shoals that the commission is likely to run aground.

13. Benares Shoals - Benares Shoals, or Benares Shoal, is a submerged coral reef, an isolated patch located at 5°15′S 071°40′E, just 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west-northwest of Île Pierre, the closest island of Peros

14. Phone: (205) 836-4277 Boilermakers Local Lodge 455 1906 Webster St, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661

15. Second, he navigated his way through complicated channels and delicate shoals without any jarring note.

16. A unit for protecting a propeller of a boat from underwater hazards like shoals, reefs and algae.

17. A Yellow Tangs are very popular aquarium fish and many hobbyists try to keep them in shoals.

18. A stereo Bruvs (with two cameras) sits amongst a rich coral reef habitat at Rowley Shoals, Western Australia

19. Low relief shoals which developed above the regional carbonate platform may be additional targets for small oil accumulations.

20. The algal ridge is an important feature of the shoals and appears to be the largest recorded for the Indian Ocean.

21. Entire shoals are surrounded by nets and sucked in for processing and freezing, leaving nothing left to breed and replenish stocks.

22. The Saya de Malha Bank formed 35 million years ago, and the Nazareth Bank and the Cargados Carajos shoals formed later.

23. In March 1775, land speculator and North Carolina judge Richard Henderson met with more than 1,200 Cherokees at Sycamore Shoals.

24. The Cape Hatteras light marked very dangerous shoals which extend from the cape for a distance of 10 nautical miles (19 km).

25. Whiskey Barrel "Bunghole" Double Guitar Holder, Repurposed Wood Guitar Hanger, Gift for Him, Gift for Groom, Best Man Gift - The Shoals HoltzLeather

26. Big shoals of Acetes, which are just a few centimetres long, crippled the water pumping stations causing units to be powered down on two consecutive days.

27. Four days later, she returned to Bougainville to investigate the shoals along the approaches to Empress Augusta Bay, then, she resumed patrols off Guadalcanal.

28. In the following stories, three Marshallese members share how others helped them navigate life’s rocky shoals and storms to lead them unto Christ.

29. They may occur through a build-up of sedimentation as shoals, and become true islands through changes in the level of the lake.

30. 9 In order to avoid spiritual shoals, rocks, and sandbars, we need to keep up-to-date with our “charts” by a regular study of God’s Word.

31. The reef system at French Frigate Shoals supports 41 species of stony corals, including several species that are not found in the main Hawaiian Island chain.

32. "Pointe aux Barques" means 'Point of Little Boats', a descriptor of the shallow shoals and reefs that lurk beneath these waves, presenting a hazard to

33. The ship's lifeboats and logbook were missing when she was found on 31 January 1921 at the Diamond Shoals, off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

34. Norse’s work helped convince Bush to establish the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in 2006, which limited or prohibited fishing across nearly 140,000 square miles of shoals and Atolls

35. Gazetteer Western Pacific: Moluccas and Philippines to Timor, north to the Mariana Islands, south to Rowley Shoals and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia. Range extends to Pitcairn (Ref. 97.

36. However, French Frigate Shoals and Midway Atoll are exempted from these rules, as they are deemed too altered by humans already to worry about introducing new species.

37. Farther from shore, in sheltered bays or lagoons partly enclosed by offshore shoals and bars of skeletal lime sands, fine-grained carbonates with coral–algal–bryozoan thickets accumulated.

38. And through the years while you're bringing up the Bairns your man's awa' tae here and there followin' the shoals of herring and when he's back there's nets

39. In 1798, the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals which ran 3 miles (4.8 km) into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.

40. The Shoals High Current Combiner series is used to combine multiple strings per circuit up to a 60A fuse size. This means a more than 50% reduction in return cables over a traditional Combiner box.

41. Booty Man Lyrics: Okay, the Shoals Plane is in the air / The landin' gear is up / This is Tim "Booty" Wilson and the Booty Callers / They call it "Booty Man" / Look at that Booty, show me the Booty

42. Spratly Islands, Chinese (Pinyin) Nansha Qundao or (Wade-Giles transliteration) Nan-sha Ch’un-tao, Malay Kepulauan Spratly, Pilipino Pangkat Islang Kalayaan, Vietnamese Quan Dao Truong Sa, large group of reefs, shoals, Atolls, and small islets in the South China Sea of the Pacific Ocean.

43. ‘The blackcap Basslet, a relative of the large species of groupers, uses its bulging eyes to find food while it scavenges on the coral reef.’ ‘We joined the swarming shoals of surgeon, Basslet, butterfly fish, damsel fish, fusiliers and some bemused jack fish.’

44. What, but poor little urchins, whose stomachs are craving, and little old Beldames in shoals; And lice by the thousand, mosquitoes and flies? (I can't count you the cloud as it rolls!) Which keep humming and buzzing about one, a language denying the respite of sleep,

45. We visited Cajun's on our Anniversary while we were staying at the Shoals Hotel and Spa and had a great time at Cajuns, the food was fantastic and the owners were home boys from Thibodaux Louisiana so I know those guys can cook and they know how to treat you to a real seafood platter, unlike some of the other restaurants in Alabama!! we are going to