Sentences with phrase «fish spawning grounds»

Last summer the Tortugas Ecological Reserve was established 80 miles west of Key West; it covers just 197 square miles of coral reefs and fish spawning grounds, but that makes it the largest reserve yet in American waters.

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This «imprints «the harbors as the natural spawning grounds of the fish, so that they return to spawn when they reach adulthood.

Diadromous fish that survive passage at the Milford fish lift will emerge into historic spawning, nursery and rearing grounds that have not been accessible since the early 1900s.

It has long been surmised that the young fish reach the Central Arctic from their spawning grounds under drifting ice.

«Days after sockeye passed through extremely fast - moving water, we started to see fish dying only a short distance from their spawning grounds,» said Nicholas Burnett, a research biologist at UBC and lead author of the study, published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Tagged fish were released in the high flows downstream of a dam in southwestern British Columbia and tracked as they navigated through a fishway and two lakes to their spawning grounds.

The totoaba's spawning grounds coincide closely with vaquita habitat, and fish poachers often snag porpoises in illicit nets.

The combined motion of many of these small cyclones in the Agulhas Current creates a countercurrent running northeast that fish like sardines and anchovies likely rely on to travel to their spawning grounds.

Such oil production will take place in some of the haddock «s important spawning grounds and the haddock is an economically important species of fish.»

Why they are attracted to this part of the reef is uncertain, but it may be because this exposed point is one of the premier spawning grounds for groupers and other fish.

Dang, and here I thought the eco-mentalists were certain it was dams keeping them from their spawning grounds, leading to the destruction of dams for the benefit of the fish.