Sentences with phrase «juvenile fish finding»

Moore Reef - Located 55 km offshore from Cairns, Moore Reef seems to act as a nursery for the surrounding nearby Great Barrier Reef area with juvenile fish finding shelter in an assortment of rock formations.

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Sallan and Michael Coates of the University of Chicago also were able to identify juveniles of Fouldenia, a rare find that allowed them to show that the body shape of these fish changed dramatically as they developed.

Johnston said that whenever researchers examine a lionfish specimen they are finding all sorts of juvenile fish they've eaten, and therein lies the problem.

Later summer surveys by Brodeur's group found very high abundances of juvenile hake off northern Oregon and southern Washington, which is highly unusual and suggests that many of the commercially important fish survived beyond the larval stage.

«It was astounding to find juvenile commercial fish species like bream and tailor 150 kilometres offshore, as we had thought that once they were swept out to sea that was end of them.

None of the 13 companies who responded currently restrict purchases of juvenile fish or those caught just before spawning, but Hanaoka says they did find some reason for optimism.

They found 17 - 25 per cent of all juveniles collected in the managed area were from this particular group of parent fish, as were 6 - 17 per cent of all juvenile groupers caught in four neighbouring fishery areas.

I have opened up canister filters to find live juvenile fish, gravel, plant matter, fragments of filter material and, of course, bits and pieces of dead fish.

At the north, you'll find a shallow sandy bottom with a colorful coral reef and a huge range of juvenile fish life.

Here you will also find a variety of juvenile fish among the dense stands of lettuce coral.

A huge variety of juvenile reef fish inhabit the shallow waters found here before moving off to the more dangerous deeper waters further offshore.

You can find dragonettes here, ghost pipefish, frog fish and many juveniles use this as their safe harbour.