Pelagic

Definition: Pelagic

Pelagic

Adjective

1. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean; "oceanic islands like Bermuda"; "oceanic currents"; "oceanic birds"; "pelagic organisms"; "pelagic whaling".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pelagic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Pelagic \Pe*lag"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression pelagicus.]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Pelagic

Ocean

Adjective: oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing; hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal.

Crosswords: Pelagic

Romanian (pelagic).

Books

• Dynamics of Pelagic Fish Distribution and Behaviour: Effects on Fisheries and Stock Assessment (reference)

• Eutrophication and the Baltic Sea : studies on phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, and pelagic nutrient cycles (reference)

• Factors Controlling Pelagic Communities of Freshwater Ciliates and Heliozoans (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations, 454) (reference)

• Long-Term Variability of Pelagic Fish Populations and Their Environment: Proceedings of the International Symposium, Sendai, Japan, 14-18 November, 1 (reference)

• Managing Transboundary Stocks of Small Pelagic Fish: Problems and Options (World Bank Discussion Papers, No 329) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Peruvian purse seiner fishing for small pelagic fish. Credit: Fisheries.

Scientist displaying pop-off electronic tag. This tag is inserted into a fish's flesh and pops off when it has been programmed to do so. It transmits a signal to an ARGOS satellite for tracking large pelagic fish species. Credit: Fisheries.

Fishmeal plant at La Planchada processes small pelagic species for consumption by the aquaculture industry, chickens, pigs, and ruminants. Credit: Fisheries.

On average, FAO statistical area 87 provides around 45 per cent of the World's catch of small pelagic species. Credit: Fisheries.

A wide variety of fish and shellfish species support a mostly small-scale fisher y, operating near to the coast. Over 40 types of gear are used in the Mediterran ean. Most common type is trawlgear for benthic species; coastal purse seiners for small pelagics; trammel and gillnets for inshore species; and purse seines, long surface gill nets, and longlines are used for large pelagic fish. Credit: Fisheries.

High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploit ed by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seiner fishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrh enian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating in the Mediterranean. Credit: Fisheries.

Coastal Pelagic Fisheries: Small coastal pelagic species are exploited by coast al purse seiners. Top: Coastal purse seiners in the harbor of Fuengirola, Spain . Bottom: Anchovies caught in the Alboran Sea by coastal purse seiners and landed in Fuengirola, Spain. Credit: Fisheries.

A pelagic puffer caught by a dipnet in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Credit: Fisheries.

Figure 5. The large Bouree bathypelagic net invented by Henry Bouree and used on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1910. This vertical sampling net was tested in 1910 between the depths of 0 and 4900 meters off the coast of Spain. It was meant to capture pelagic animals from the greatest depths of the sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 11. Meter for use with Buchet plankton net, devised by Gaston Buchet in 1892. Left: front view. Right: side view. This instrument was designed to capture pelagic animals while being towed at a relatively high rate of speed. It was tested off Iceland in 1892 and also used in a number of expeditions of Prince Albert I of Monaco. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "pelagic": pelagic bird ♦ pelagic deposit ♦ pelagic sediment ♦ pelagic trawl ♦ pelagic zone. Additional references.

Ending with "pelagic": non-pelagic.

Albanian

oqeanik (neptunian, oceanic), i detit të hapur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏أوقيانوسي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

океански (ocean, ocean-going, oceanic), морски (marine, maritime, nautical, saltwater, sea, seaborne, seagoing, seaside), живеещ в открито море, пелагичен. (various references)

Chinese 

远洋. (various references)

Danish

pelagiske organismer (pelagic organisms), pelagiske fisk (pelagic fish), pelagisk zone (pelagic division, pelagic zone), pelagisk trawl (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagisk notfartøj (pelagic seiner), pelagisk art (pelagic species), violet pilrokke (pelagic sting ray, pelagic stingray), Stillehavs-rævehaj (pelagic thresher), oceanisk fugl (oceanic bird, pelagic bird), flydetrawl (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), dybhavssediment (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment). (various references)

Dutch

pelagische zone (pelagic division, pelagic zone), pelagische trawl (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagische soort (pelagic species), pelagische pijlstaartrog (pelagic stingray), pelagische organismen (pelagic organisms), pelagisch trawlnet (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagisch net (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagiale zone (pelagic zone), pelagiaal (pelagic division, pelagic zone), vrij zwemmende vis (pelagic fish), voshaai (pelagic thresher), visser med pelagische zegen (pelagic seiner), violet pijlstaartrog (pelagic sting ray), kleintand-voshaai (pelagic thresher), diepzeeafzetting (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment). (various references)

Finnish

pintatrooli (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagiaali (pelagic zone), pelaginen organismi (pelagic organisms), pelaginen sedimentti (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment), pelaginen trooli (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelaginen vyöhyke (pelagic zone), pelagiset lajit (pelagic species), vapaan veden vyöhyke (pelagic zone), syvänmeren sedimentti (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment), avovesi (open water), ulappaeliö (pelagic organisms), ulappakala (pelagic fishes), ulappakettuhai (pelagic thresher), välivesitrooli (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), vapaa vesi (pelagic zone), avovesikala (pelagic fishes), sinikeihäsrausku (pelagic stingray). (various references)

French

pélagique. (various references)

German

pelagisches Schleppnetz (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), pelagisches Nahrungsnetz (pelagic food web), pelagische Zone (pelagic zone), pelagische Ringwaden (pelagic seiner), pelagische Organismen (pelagic organisms), pelagische Art (pelagic species), pelagialer Bereich (pelagic zone), Pelagial (pelagic division, pelagic zone), Violetter Stechrochen (pelagic sting ray, pelagic stingray), Tiefseelager (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment), Tiefseeablagerung (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment), Indopazifischer Fuchshai (pelagic thresher), freies Wasser (pelagic division). (various references)

Greek 

πελαγικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian

nyílt tengeri. (various references)

Italian

pelagico. (various references)

Manx

mooar-varrey, eaghtyragh (shallow, skindeep, superficial, superior, surface feeding, top-level). (various references)

Pig Latin

elagicpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pelágico (pelagian), relativo ao pélago (pelagian). (various references)

Romanian

pelagic, oceanic (oceanic), marin (marine, sea). (various references)

Russian 

пелагический (pelagian). (various references)

Spanish

pelágico. (various references)

Swedish

pelagiska organismer (pelagic organisms), pelagisk zon (pelagic zone), pelagisk region (pelagic zone), violett spjutrocka (pelagic stingray), stillahavsrävhaj (pelagic thresher), flyttrål (floating trawl, midwater trawl, pelagic trawl), djuphavssediment (deepsea deposit, deep-sea deposit, pelagic deposit, pelagic sediment). (various references)

Ukrainian

морський (marine, maritime, nautic, nautical, naval, neptunian, pelagian, salty, water), пелагічний (pelagian). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ở biển khơi; l� m ngo� i biển khơi. (various references)

Alopias pelagicus, Dasyatis violacea. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "pelagic": archipelagic, bathypelagic, epipelagic, mesopelagic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pelagic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: besagic, ellagic, Palagi, Palagio, palargic, Pallagi, panavic, Parlagi, Pelagi, Pelagia, pelagica, pelagikos, pelagin, Pelagio, pelago, pelargic, pelasgic, pelegic, peligic, Perleihc, Phellatio, Xpelair. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: epical, plaice, plicae.

-2 letters: agile, glace, ileac, pical, pilea, place, plage, plica.

-3 letters: alec, cage, cape, ceil, clag, clap, clip, egal, epic, gale, gape, glia, ilea, lace, laic, leap, lice, lipa, lipe, pace, page, pail, pale, peag, peal, pial, pica, pice, pile, plea, plie.

-4 letters: ace, age, ail, ale, alp, ape, cap, cel, cep.

+2 letters: coliphage, emplacing, parceling, pleaching, replacing.

+3 letters: apologetic, beclasping, calipering, coliphages, enclasping, epipelagic, escaloping, opalescing, paraplegic, parcelling, peculating, phlegmatic, prelogical, preplacing, reclasping, spanceling.

+4 letters: acceptingly, apologetics, archipelago, callipering, encapsuling, escalloping, exculpating, explicating, genotypical, geophysical, mesopelagic, panegyrical, paraplegics, pedagogical, pedological, penological, percolating, plagioclase, plangencies, praelecting, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, replicating, spaceflight, spancelling, speculating, telegraphic.

+5 letters: archipelagic, archipelagos, backpedaling, bathypelagic, calligrapher, epexegetical, epigraphical, escapologies, escapologist, flexographic, geographical, geopolitical, heliographic, hypoglycemia, lexicography, organoleptic, paleographic, palingenetic, petrological, phenological, placekicking, plagioclases, precanceling, profligacies, quadriplegic, spaceflights, spacewalking, specialising, specializing, unapologetic.