Sentences with phrase «endangered fish»
The phrase "endangered fish" means that the fish species is at a high risk of becoming extinct or disappearing from its natural habitat. Full definition
It's also home to four endangered fish species.
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This year, red meat and endangered fish species have also been banned.
Saving three species of endangered fish along the Oregon - California border will take more than just regulating irrigation water, according to a report released yesterday by the National Research Council (NRC).
The divers in the water and the experts at the surface counted just 87 of the critically endangered fish in the species» only native habitat, 90 miles west of Las Vegas.
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Asia's Endangered fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) went missing in 2003, and was thought to be extinct in that nation.
A new report says a broader strategy is needed to preserve endangered fish in the Klamath Basin.
Prior to working for the department, he worked for three years at California Department of Fish and Game as a Scientific Aide and two years at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a Biological technician working on endangered fish projects.
The law calls for pumps «to maximize water supplies for the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project,» and may run into conflict with provisions in the Endangered Species Act that limit pumping at certain times to protect endangered fish species.
By spearing predatory Lionfish, you save endangered fish indigenous to south Belize waters while you have a great time, learn a new skill and help rid the area of unwanted aquatic interlopers.
Also, the regulations on diverting water for agriculture use are very tight — rivers can't be pumped if it means endangering fish stocks or other wildlife.»
Further, trout offspring of these altered salmon were totally normal and able to reproduce as trout — some eliding their salmon ancestry even in their appearance — thus raising hopes for spawning endangered fish species within more common ones.
They claimed that efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to manage water releases from upstream dams to benefit endangered fish and wildlife habitat exacerbated floods in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014.
Endangered fish seem to have undergone virgin births — cloning themselves in what might be a last - ditch ploy to avoid extinction
Naturally, Eddie's plan backfires and he resorts to Plan B - collecting endangered fish that his sister is trying to protect and selling them to a mystery buyer.
The report also focused on an issue I've written on periodically — how the vaquita death rate has been driven up by unrelenting Chinese demand for the dried swim bladder of the totoaba, a large endangered fish found in the same waters.
Five students from Arizona State University Colleges at Lake Havasu City got up close and personal with endangered fish conservation efforts during this year's «razorback roundup» on Lake Havasu.
From endangered fish releases to sustainable community events to poster design — and let's not forget tree planting — turns out April 22 is a busy day for the green Twitterverse.
February 23, 2011 — «Survival of Endangered Fish Calls for Protection,» Ileene Anderson, The San Bernardino County Sun
Given the encouraging results, freezing of endangered fish species's spermatogonia has begun.
Hogan travels to the most endangered environments, striving to save critically endangered fish and the livelihood of people who share their habitats.
Yoshizaki and his colleagues at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology have been searching for a method to preserve endangered fish species for years.
Loutan noted that many hydroelectric dams are required to meet strict cold - water flow requirements at certain times of the day to protect endangered fish.
The only way to save the bluefin tuna, one of the most marvelous and endangered fish in the ocean, may be to domesticate the species
Water development, including damming, harms 91 percent of endangered fish species and 22 percent of endangered birds in the United States, according to a study published in Bioscience [subscription required].
In February 2015, a sub-population of Murray hardyhead were translocated to this site from the South Australian Riverland, as part of ongoing efforts by several agencies to restore the population of this endangered fish species.
One allegation involves monitoring an endangered fish species.
Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.
Man - made deluge scours Grand Canyon in the name of endangered fish To survive, the humpback chub — an endangered fish with a prominent hump of flesh immediately behind its long - snouted head — needs sandbars in the Colorado River.
The toxicant may deal a death blow to the already - endangered fish, a living fossil that the Chinese government considers a «national treasure.»
An endangered fish along the coast of California — the tidewater goby — may actually be two species rather than one, according a study published July 27, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Camm Swift from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US, and colleagues.
If California hopes to prevent further extinctions of native species of endangered fish, the state should abandon efforts to take desperate measures to save individual species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and instead look to bolster entire aquatic ecosystems.
The Rio Yaqui flows south from the refuge into Mexico and supports a number of endangered fish.
The endangered fish lives in the river right outside the museum's doors.
The launch of Springfield's Summer Reading Club included an endangered Fishing Cat from the city's Forest Park Zoo, a local author dressed as his costume superhero, and top readers from a fifth - grade class at the Milton Bradley Elementary school, who created a cheer for summer reading.
Population numbers have declined during the past several decades and even though the endangered fish is found in the Redwood Creek watershed in Muir Beach, less than six adult fish were seen in 2009.
That restricted range has made this species, the world's smallest porpoise, particularly vulnerable to fishing boats wielding gill nets — many supplying illicit Asian markets for the swim bladder of an endangered fish, the totoaba.
In my latest piece on how Chinese appetites for an endangered fish are indirectly driving Mexico's tiny porpoise, the vaquita, to extinction, I passingly mentioned the world's other deeply imperiled toothed whale — New Zealand's Maui's dolphin.
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to request that the Pacific Walrus be added to the list of protected species in the Endangered
Last year, the government ruled that too much water was being pumped out of the Delta - the central water source for much of this region - thus causing an endangered fish (the Smelt) to become seriously threatened.
Swim bladders of the critically endangered fish are prized in China, apparently as a prestigious gift in business circles, with purported medical value.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had proposed to limit water release to protect the habitat of two endangered fish species.