The fact that the metarule is profusely violated elsewhere, as in the body,gannetand heaven classes, is declared irrelevant.
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Its northern boundary is the sea, with wild life ranging from the grey seal to thegannet.
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I should personally need to take some advice on the taking of young gannets.
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For a number of years past it has been the local practice to take gannets outside the close season for food and other purposes.
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They are in particular the guillemot, the puffin and thegannet.
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When these were protected they felt quite sorely about it, and then they were allowed to take their gannets.
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Gannets and other diving seabirds have no chance of seeing them because they are invisible under water.
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Is it not a fact that gannets are quite common, and are increasing?
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Gannets and sea-diving birds have no chance of seeing them because of their invisibility under water.
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There were very few gannets affected.
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On the lower deck "gannet" has always meant someone greedy and noisome who ate up someone else's food the whole time and had no graces at all.
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When a net breaks it lingers in the sea still trapping everything in the sea as well as birds such as gannets and other diving birds.
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As they reach offshore islands, we should recognise the impact that this alien introduction will have on the population of sea birds, including gannets and puffins.
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It is a migratory bird sanctuary for the northerngannet, and has over 110,000 nesting birds, the second largest in the world.
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In 1959, 45,000 pairs of gannets were counted on the island and the two stacks.
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