Sentences with phrase «fish as a carrier»

Despite the noted impact of fish on cognitive development, researchers just used fish as a carrier for omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acid intake.

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The product was acid phosphate containing some 16 percent P 2 0 5, to which, in the earlier days were added small quantities of nitrogen carriers, such as guano, slaughterhouse tankage, garbage tankage, fish scrap, and lowanalysis potash salts of foreign origin, to be replaced gradually in subsequent years by the higher grades of nitrogen carriers, ammonium sulfate and sodium nitrate, for years likewise largely of foreign origin, and the more concentrated potash salts.

They are also reputed carriers of salmonella — not as true as some might have you believe, but true enough to warrant attention to cleanliness — and do not tolerate cohabitation with fish, snails or any other typical aquarium specie, almost all of which they consider food.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

To keep them fishing there for as long as possible, large carrier ships are sent out to resupply them with fuel and provisions and to collect the catch, which is frozen on board and brought back to port.»