Sentences with phrase «endangered fish species»

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had proposed to limit water release to protect the habitat of two endangered fish species.

This year, red meat and endangered fish species have also been banned.

As part of the response, most of the remaining large wetlands will be drained (some of these are the last refuge for critically endangered fish species and for hard - pressed bird life.

It's also home to four endangered fish 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].

Given the encouraging results, freezing of endangered fish species's spermatogonia has begun.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Reflect for a moment on a few familiar facts: The endangered wildlife list now stands at a record 101 species in the United States — mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles facing extinction.

«We will be working together to deliver environmental water to smaller local wetland and floodplain sites to improve habitat and provide refuges for endangered and threatened native bird and fish species such as the Regent Parrot and the Murray Hardyhead,» Mr Reilly said.

The wetland complex is home for 284 species of plants (including 108 regionally endangered, 11 state - wide endangered and 1 nationally endangered), 171 species of birds (making it a significant bird hotspot in South Australia and Australia), 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, 9 species of fish and 8 species of amphibians.

One of South Australia's natural wonders, Banrock Station is home to 171 species of birds, 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, nine species of fish, eight species of amphibians and 284 species of plants, some of which are endangered.

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Sue the Fish and Wildlife Service for compliance with the Endangered Species Act.

At about the same time that the U.S. House of Representatives was readying legislation to combat poaching and wildlife trafficking for President Obama's signature, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) delivered 90 finger - length giant Thai catfish, a critically endangered species, to Shedd Aquarium.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IIspecies is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IISpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

In fact, the license renewal process is limited, focusing on environmental effects, such as endangered species, the effects of cooling water systems on fish and ground water quality; and, physical plant safety, such as the long term maintenance of coolant system piping or steam generators, as well as motors, diesel generators, and batteries.

Riverkeeper is blasting a recently released federal review that concluded construction for a new Tappan Zee Bridge will not harm the river's sturgeon, an endangered species of prehistoric fish.

Coastal martens were petitioned for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2010, but withdrawn for consideration by the fish and wildlife service in 2015.

«[T] hat another federally endangered bat species, the gray bat, has been confirmed with white - nose syndrome is devastating for anyone who cares about bats and the benefits they provide to people,» U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said in a prepared statement.

A study in Science found that species non-specialists proposed to add to the endangered list were more at risk than species put on the list by experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The team assessed 61 species of fish according to the criteria used by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Gland, Switzerland, to produce its Red List of endangered species.

«Obviously environmental protection and [halting] fishing is the best solution... [but] we need some backup system to conserve endangered species.»

On April 19 of this year, five major wildlife protection groups petitioned the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to list the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) as an endangered species.

If salmon are going to be restored to the rivers of the Northwest, as mandated by the Endangered Species Act, scientists will have to understand where the fish do best.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

The model can help us plan for restoration and management actions to increase survival and abundance of many of the sea - run fish species, including those that are endangered or threatened.»

Given that leatherback turtle populations have declined by 98 % in the past 40 years (mostly due to being caught in fishing nets), this migration map is crucial in helping to save leatherback lives: thanks to this map, the scientists have already singled out 11 countries that can be invited to help conserve this endangered species.

Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Spendangered under the Endangered SpEndangered Species Act.

A 90 % decline in Caspian beluga stocks over the preceding 20 years prompted the fish's addition to the United Nation's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1998.

Although acknowledging that threatened species shouldn't be used for dissection, Kambadur Muralidhar, a professor of endocrinology at South Asian University in New Delhi, says that substituting species in dissections — for example, using the common walking catfish instead of endangered Scoliodon fish — would have addressed the issue.

The team estimates more than 1,200 species of fish make their home in the Mekong, including the giant Mekong catfish and the giant freshwater stingray, as well as the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin.

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to apply the full terms of the Endangered Species Act to all chimpanzees, captive and wild.

It has been a mixed week for fish at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in the Dutch capital, The Hague.

In the entire history of the Endangered Species Act, there has been no similar instance of a split listing, Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said in a press briefing June 11.

Downstream, near where the river empties into the East China Sea, the land around the Yangtze contains some of the densest clusters of human habitation in the world, and overfishing there has already endangered 25 of the river's 177 unique fish species.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the Endangered Species Program, dismisses such charges.

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the whorled sunflower, Short's bladderpod and fleshy - fruit gladecress for protection under the Endangered Species Act because populations of the three are dwindling to critical levels.

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by issuing a permit to Montana allowing it to open the Stillwater State Forest to timber harvests in areas that would damage grizzly territory.

Says biologist Richard Mace of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, «We have a federal law called the Endangered Species Act, and [under this law] the federal government is supposed to help identify and conserve threatened species.Species Act, and [under this law] the federal government is supposed to help identify and conserve threatened species.species.»

The Fish and Wildlife Service is to decide next year if the bird must be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Scientists hadn't realized that the fish — the world's largest at roughly the size of a school bus — frequented these waters, and the gas field soon became a hotbed for studying this endangered species.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

Fewer than 500 whooping cranes live in the wild in the United States, making them the world's most endangered crane species, said Tom MacKenzie a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday.

NOAA Fisheries has authorized Oregon, Washington and Idaho to remove individually identifiable sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam that have been spotted repeatedly preying on fish protected under the Endangered Species Act.

This September, after years of mulling over the decline — and spurred forward by litigation — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed listing the bird as a threatened species under the Endangered Specispecies under the Endangered SpeciesSpecies Act.

For wild fish, scientists take into account how a fish is caught (using nets, polls or harpoons, for example); whether the stock is being managed responsibly; how abundant the breed is (compared with historic levels); and whether fishing methods endanger other species (such as nets used to fish for yellowfin tuna that snare and kill dolphins).

In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined an endangered species listing for greater sage grouse was not warranted in Wyoming or elsewhere.