Sentences with phrase «important spawning areas»

Impacts to wildlife in Haverstraw Bay, one of the most important spawning areas and nurseries for fish throughout the Hudson River Estuary and the Atlantic Coast.

Thor - Ivar Guldberg of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Norway says the waters off Runde are also an important spawning area for commercial fish species, including herring and cod.

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The offshore marine habitat was long known as an important breeding area for the commercially valuable Queen Conch, as well as a seasonal spawning bank for Nassau and Yellowfin Groupers, and a variety of other species.

Covering a part of the reef, a shallow area, a beach and a mangrove area, Hol Chan («little channel» in Maya) was declared a national marine reserve in 1987, thereby protecting its abundant marine life and making it an important spawning ground.

The area serves as a vitally important migratory corridor and spawning habitat for several species of salmon and feeding area for a large number of brown bears.

It achieved this status primarily due to it having an astounding coral reef and it being a spawning area for an important fishery species, the pelagic plectropomus grouper.