Sentences with phrase «spawning grounds of»

The plumes are also direct evidence that the oil is mixing at every level of the ocean, from the fragile coral reefs at the bottom of the Gulf to the shallower spawning grounds of the bluefin tuna.

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.

Beyond killing adult animals, the spawning grounds of endangered bluefin tuna and other iconic species is contaminated.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

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.

The group believes that the species, whose last remaining stronghold is the Caspian Sea, is on the brink of extinction after decades of overharvesting and damage to its natural spawning grounds.

It is still too early, however, to measure the next hoped - for benefit of such preserves: serving as spawning grounds to replenish populations outside their boundaries.

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.

Sockeye salmon that sprint to spawning grounds through fast - moving waters may be at risk, suggests new research by University of British Columbia scientists.

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.

River herring include two related species, alewife and blueback herring, which migrate between freshwater spawning grounds and the ocean, where they spend most of their lives.

Overfishing, pollution, and the blocking of spawning grounds by dams once devastated their populations.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing that can save this film for me now is if Godzilla continues to cycle through the colours of the LGBT flag and is cutting a path to the ancient heretofore unknown Zilla spawning grounds where He Godzilla is going to give birth to Godzuki.

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.

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

They have returned to their natal spawning grounds to lay and fertilize millions of fragile eggs that will hopefully survive the next several perilous months to hatch sometime after the New Year.

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.

Sockeye salmon carcasses litter the shores of spawning grounds.

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.

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.

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.

There are plenty of human related activities which negatively impact oyster hatcheries, coral reefs, salmon spawning grounds, etc..

On the undammed Sandy, salmon and steelhead will soon have renewed access to over 100 miles of their historic spawning grounds.

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.

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».