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A large school of very small fish or shrimp which comes close to the shoreline or into the mouth of a river, usually when they are migrating or spawning.
Pamagbantay tang mga taw tang dōng ang ipon mga timpong abagat.
People watch for large schools of migrating shrimp during the southwest monsoon season.
The shrimp migrate from the ocean into the mouth of rivers. When a river is full of shrimp, people use a nets with small holes, or something like a dipper, to scoop the shrimp out of the water, and then put them into large tiklis baskets. The shrimp are made into shrimp paste called ipon in Agutaynen and bagoong in Tagalog.
Yadi sing diminōng ang lambiaw don ong may pantalan.
There are many small lambiaw fish which have once again entered the reef in large schools there close to the pier.
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