Last April, staff from the Oregon Coast Aquarium rescued more than a dozen yellowtail jacks and one striped beakfish from a half-sunk, fiberglass wreck coated in seaweed. It was the front half of a roughly 15-meter-long commercial fishing vessel.

Tom's shirt has magenta stripes on it.

Mary likes to wear clothes with vertical stripes, because she heard they make you look thinner.

Sami wore a black-and-white striped shirt.

Decorated with blue and yellow stripes, the tie was very unfashionable.

There are stripes on the American flag.

I like this striped shirt.

The tiger's stripes make it difficult to see because they merge with the vegetation and break up the outline of the body.

Zebras have stripes.

Off the coast of New England, fishermen have caught too many striped bass and blue crabs. These species used to keep native crab populations in check. Without predators to hold them back, native crabs are devouring the marshes.