Sentences with phrase «fish nursery habitats»

As cattle ranches have displaced biologically rich rainforests, fish farms have displaced mangrove forests that provide important fish nursery habitats and protect coasts during storms.

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Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

These functions include soil stabilization and erosion control; storm surge and flood protection; biodiversity; food production; and the provision of nursery habitat for economically important seafood species, including shrimp, crab and fish.

Coastal oceans affected by suspended sediment tend to overlap critical fish habitats and nurseries.

Seagrass beds provide food and shelter to a wide variety of marine life and are particularly important as nursery habitat for young fish and invertebrates such as kelp bass and California spiny lobsters.

Its marine reserve is also zoned to protect fishing, nurseries and inimitable habitats and is a mecca for snorkeling, fishing, diving and educational activities.

The Marine Reserve at South Water Caye is zoned to protect fishing nurseries and unique habitats; however it provides extensive multi-use areas for snorkeling, fishing, diving and educational activities.

Regulating no - fishing zones and limiting tourist access to critical habitats including breading grounds, nurseries, and congregation areas to maintain and regrow identified target zones throughout the reserve.

There are four marine turtle species that live in the shallow waters which are also an important habitat and nursery - area for a large number of fish, crustaceans, and others marine life.

The Turneffe Atoll is the largest atoll with fascinating mangrove and seagrass habitats; its waterways a nursery for fish, shellfish and crocodiles.

Sea ice is critical for polar marine ecosystems in at least two important ways: (1) it provides a habitat for photosynthetic algae and nursery ground for invertebrates and fish during times when the water column does not support phytoplankton growth; and (2) as the ice melts, releasing organisms into the surface water [3], a shallow mixed layer forms which fosters large ice - edge blooms important to the overall productivity of polar seas.

With coastal vegetation's improvement of water quality by filtering becoming more evident, it is also necessary to point out how young fish very often use these nursery areas to thrive; storms are buffered and even how many other (species such as manatee) are dependent on these habitats.

Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19

They damaged the seafloor and maimed coral and kelp forests — vital nursery grounds for fish and shellfish — crippling the habitat necessary for a healthy marine ecosystem.