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Bottom Fishing

An investment strategy in which one buys high-risk stocks in companies that have recently dropped dramatically in price. The investor buys the stock in the belief that the drop is due to panic selling, rather than a serious fault in the company, and that the company will recover. The number of bottom fishers may increase in a prolonged bear market. See also: Distressed securities.

bottom feeder

A derogatory term for someone who buys distressed properties; one who profits from the misfortunes or poor management of others.

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Then, who will do the FFL transfers for bottom-feeding websites?

Killing mom and pop shops

There is less food for bottom-feeding animals like walruses.

Big changes in the Bering Sea

And then there's the bottom-feeding administration bag man, Al "No Controlling Legal Authority" Gore, who never missed a chance to finger his capo as "da greatest I eva' seen."

President Scarface

Stark proof for anyone with common sense now emerges that the lowest (read: bottom-feeding) stratum of the American plaintiff's bar can, when exposed to huge fees gained by lawyers in the tobacco suits, lose all pretense of honor and ethics.

Blood In The Water Smells Like Money

It's normal for bottom-feeding fish such as koi carp to pick up stones and spit them out when rummaging for food - but yours obviously bit off more than it could chew!

My fish nearly had its chips

But when the waters cleared enough to allow light to reach further down, the system "flipped" or re-organized itself into a state favouring benthic (bottom-feeding) fish.

Scariest thing about climate change: climate flips

This is good news for bottom-feeding fish, which take them in abundance as blood worms.

Lure of those wee beasties; Be a fly guy and tickle the trout's taste buds ..

With its gangly whiskers, bulging eyes, and bottom-feeding reputation, the catfish may not be the most comely of fish.

Catfish fillets checked for flavor

From leopard sharks to sturgeon, the Bay's bottom-feeding fish can provide plenty of sport and tasty eating.

Clear-day bottomfishing around San Francisco Bay

Here is one species that gets less respect than a bottom-feeding carp.

Rock bass just doesn't get respect it deserves

For some reason they like the crab at mid depth, like it's trying to get away from the bottom-feeding ray.