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How to pronounce capelin in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms capelan, caplin
Type of smelt

Examples of capelin

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Harp seals eat fish like capelin, which may themselves eat young cod, he says.
From the newscientist.com
They also have a diverse diet, including krill and herring, capelin and other fish.
From the stltoday.com
Cod prey on smaller, plankton-eating fish like capelin and Atlantic herring.
From the newscientist.com
The zooplankton feeders include young cod, capelin, polar cod, whales, and Little Auk.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Capelin are a forage fish of the smelt family found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Puffins and razorbills feed on small fish including sand eels, herring, hake and capelin.
From the independent.co.uk
This recovery was accompanied by a decline of capelin and cod stocks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Around Iceland maturing capelin make large northward feeding migrations in spring and summer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Meanwhile, the elderly capelin population was quickly fished out.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
  • The capelin or caplin, Mallotus villosus, is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. Larger capelin also eat a great deal of krill and other crustaceans. ...
  • Small, smelt-like fish, such as Mallotus villosus, Osmerus mordax mordax or Trisopterus minutus