Sentences with phrase «in spawning grounds»

Not exact matches

Sometimes entrepreneurial companies are spawning grounds for new ideas about how to run a business — ideas that then spread, in one form or another, to more established enterprises.

WISE scanned the whole sky 1.5 times before running out of coolant in February 2011, but the data it beamed back continues to reveal our galaxy's hidden spawning grounds.

What is clear is that in coastal areas around the world, people have unwittingly created spawning grounds for huge numbers of jellyfish simply by building docks and other structures that quickly multiplying jellyfish polyps can attach to.

By the time Pacific salmon close in on their spawning grounds, they are senescent and naturally immunosuppressed.

These tags lead crews to spawning grounds, where lake trout gather annually in large numbers.

They drift along with the ice, which is most likely how they make their way from their spawning grounds in the waters of northern Siberia to the central Arctic.

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.

«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.

Early declines, dating as far back as the 1700s, were probably the result of overharvesting in the rivers, dam construction blocking access to spawning grounds, and water pollution.

Because juvenile salmon, or smolt, leave their freshwater spawning grounds to spend an average of two to three years maturing at sea, the boom in 2001 was right on schedule.

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.»

Desert societies, with their far - flung members tending goats and camels, are classic spawning grounds for warrior classes and the accessories of militarism: military trophies as stepping stones to societal status, death in battle as a guarantee of a glorious afterlife, slavery.

Next they plan to do similar experiments with other tissues, such as the retina, and additional species that live in the ocean but travel to their freshwater hatching grounds each spring to spawn, such as American shad.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

[29] Reproduction in the sockeye salmon has to be accomplished with the energy stores brought to the spawning grounds.

I found the film engaging because it's the antithesis of that to which recent genre entries Spawn and the latter Batman sequels had conditioned us, and I recommend it on the grounds that it is gentle and sincere in its confab with a generation — my generation — of disenfranchised youth.

Developers have damaged creek spawning grounds, county agencies have inadvertently cut down hundreds of shade trees the students have planted, and, despite all the volunteer cleanups the United Anglers have conducted along the 7 - mile waterway, people persist in using Adobe Creek as a refuse dump.

Heavy use of this road caused erosion and deposited sediment in Redwood Creek — damaging the spawning grounds of the endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout.

In the winter of 2009, scientists estimated that a total 45 adult coho salmon returned to the Redwood Creek spawning grounds.

In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

Jimmy Carter In 1978, through presidential proclamation, President Carter expanded Katmai National Monument by 1.3 million acres to protect «a viable gene pool population of the Alaska brown bear... headwaters of the drainages which provide the spawning grounds for red salmon... and the unique subsistence culture of the local residents.

The Campbell River has crystal clear water that provides a unique opportunity to snorkel with thousands of salmon as they swim up - river in search of their spawning grounds.

Home to five different species of salmon, the river is most prolific in summer when thousands of salmon complete a four year quest, returning from the ocean to swim upstream against the current, returning to their spawning grounds.

Half of the income generated for Shorebank from the card goes to «Salmon Nation» an economic, cultural and ecological community collective in the bioregion that contains Pacific salmon spawning grounds.

Fred is deeply concerned about proposals to build the largest coal export terminal in North America near Bellingham, Washington, and the herring spawning grounds of the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve.

Every year salmon swim up the Snake river, struggling over 900 miles and up 7,000 vertical feet to their spawning grounds — the highest in the world and among the most important in North America.

To my mind both situations are the spawning grounds for the human greed response; it is just a matter of degree as to what lengths one will go to in order to «survive».