Until then the family had viewed the eggs as a nuisance that would "fall out of the fish on the processing room floor and create a yucky mess, " says Eason.

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It also led to a smaller volume of fertile floodwater entering the Mediterranean Sea, which in turn produced a sharp fall in the number of fish being landed by Egypt's fishermen.

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As we pass the stilt houses of the fish farmers, I let my hand fall into the water.

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Snapper, grouper, amberjack and many other fish join the list before the season winds down in the fall.

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And then also, the other one is the "Other Fish in the Sea, " which always helped me out when - whenever you fall, , whenever you lose the person that you love the most, you got to remember that there other people out there for you.

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At one point I stopped for a swig of water, and when I slapped at the whining mosquitoes that danced on my neck and hands, I slipped and slid over some tumbled pieces of rock, grabbed at branches to stop my fall, and landed just in front of a bas-relief of warriors, maidens and fish alive in stone.

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In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumping fish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.

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