The court heard he went to check on his fish stocks in 2009 but all he found was fish bones after the animals had stripped the flesh off them.

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Inside are the bones of countless fish and birds, along with several species of protected sharks and crabs.

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On Easter Island, fish hooks were fashioned from the thigh bones of deceased fishermen.

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The small, soft, edible bones of fresh sardines and smelts and canned bone-in fish like salmon are valuable sources of calcium.

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But what could be more naturally strange than plucking bones from your mouth, as Marina and Spyros do over bowls of fish soup?

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While fish are very efficient machines (unlike chickens and cows, they don't use metabolic energy by growing strong bones to fight gravity), they still eat a lot.

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