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Marine bony fish. It is about 30 cm/12 in long and less than 2 kg/4.4 lb in weight. It occurs in the North Sea and the Arctic Ocean. The bib is of little commercial importance, but the young fish are often found close inshore in large shoals where they may be caught by anglers.

Classification

The bib Trisopterus luscus belongs to the order Gadiformes (which also contains the cod, whiting, and haddock), class Osteichthyes.



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It's risky, of course, to extol the pleasures of wine bibbing because so politically correct are we expected to be that praising the gentle art of wine drinking is seen as a slight to alcoholics everywhere.
Where once men took pride in never going to bed sober, and might indeed take pride in a reputation for uncontrolled bibbing, they came within a few generations to regard drunkenness as a sign of loss of self-control, which itself was supposedly the distinguishing feature of the civilized man when compared with the barbarian.
I don't know whether they batter effigies of their bosses in the company basements to calm down but you never see them arguing or bibbing their horns.
 
 
 
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