Sentences with phrase «population of juvenile fishes»

They provide a home for a large population of juvenile fishes which remain in the safety of the networks of mangrove roots and trunks until they are large enough to survive in open water.

Dr. Mark A. Hixon, Professor of Zoology, and a team of graduate and undergraduate students from Oregon State University have demonstrated that a single lionfish can reduce the population of juvenile fish on small coral reefs by 80 percent in just five weeks.

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If the polar cod population in the Barents Sea actually does shrink, the juvenile fish under the ice of the Eastern Arctic could become even more important — especially in order to make up for losses elsewhere.

Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.

Speaking today at a press briefing, Japanese officials provided details on a plan agreed to last week that aims to rebuild the spawning population by halving the catch of juveniles and limiting takes of mature fish as well.

Reducing the take of juveniles that haven't yet spawned is one key to achieving the plan's initial goal of rebuilding spawning stock biomass — the fish population able to reproduce — to the historical median of 42,592 tons within 10 years.

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