Translation of "Coupe des nageoires " (French → English) :

fin clipping [ fin-clipping ]

multiple fin-clipping

cutting force | cutting pressure

Cut | Injured by bayonet | Stabbed | during legal intervention

bump | first weight | mine percussion | mine shock | rock burst | weighting

leather goods automated cutting system operator | leather goods automatic cutting system operator | automated cutting machine operator | automated cutting machine tender

Definition: A disorder characterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient. It occurs most commonly in adolescent girls and young women, but adolescent boys and young men may also be affected, as may children approaching puberty and older women up to the menopause. The disorder is associated with a specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness and flabbiness of body contour persists as an intrusive overvalued idea, and the patients impose a low weight threshold on themselves. There is usually undernutrition of varying severity with secondary endocrine and metabolic changes and disturbances of bodily functi ...[+++]on. The symptoms include restricted dietary choice, excessive exercise, induced vomiting and purgation, and use of appetite suppressants and diuretics.

This practice is repulsive, immoral and is largely driven by an underground market controlled by organized crime that exploits threatened and endangered species to maximize profits.

Mr. Bruce Whipple: Of the early run fish, the June fish, 20% were clipped fish that we had stocked, and it's significant on the Miramichi when you get those kinds of numbers in any stocking program.