One new bottom-feeder is called PennyMac, and it's looking to snap up gnarly looking loans for pennies on the dollar.

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There can easily be only bottom-feeder offers, or no offers at all.

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While guides from Seafood Watch and the Blue Ocean Institute both say monkfish populations are sufficient to continue harvesting at current rates, each group takes issue with the method used to catch the warty, brown bottom-feeder.

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The filter feeder fish at the bottom of the food chain then ingest these nano-particles of plastic.

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