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• n  very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes

• Some naturalists view this destruction with alarm, but Newfoundlanders say that if they did not keep the herds down the seals would eat up all their cod, capelin and herring.

• capelan
• caplin

Quotes

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• Loyola Hearn in Victoria Star
  Hearn told a talk show on VOCM radio that the province is living in a dictatorship under Williams, and that collectively the provincial cabinet doesn't have the "guts of a capelin" for kowtowing to the premier.