Assertion: halibut | /r/HasProperty | abundant
Facets:
value: relatively
type: DEGREE
value: in the pacific
type: LOCATION
value: in colonial days
type: TEMPORAL
value: in u.s. waters
type: LOCATION
value: seemingly
type: DEGREE
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: on nantucket shoals
type: LOCATION
value: on georges bank
type: LOCATION
value: between cape
type: LOCATION
value: between gloucester
type: LOCATION
value: to eating live prey
type: PURPOSE
value: between cod
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In U.S. waters, halibut were abundant on Georges Bank, Nantucket Shoals, and between Gloucester and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and were occasionally found as far south as New Jersey (Goode 1884, 1887).
text: Halibut, while considered bottom feeders, are very predatory and as such are accustomed to eating live prey.
text: In Colonial days the halibut was a familiar fish and seemingly a very abundant one on the coast of northern New England, but was considered hardly fit for food.
text: While the accuracy of the catch might be suspect, it is clear that halibut were abundant and that Europeans were familiar with this species at a very early stage of exploration.
text: Cod, pollock, flounder, halibut, sole, and plaice are still relatively abundant in the Pacific but seriously depleted in the Atlantic.