Sentences with phrase «water feeding grounds»

In habitat where sea ice either melts completely or recedes beyond the limits of shallow - water feeding grounds, bearded seals simply come ashore.

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But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

The museum ran a whale - watching boat that plied the waters between Long Beach and the Channel Islands, searching for gray whales on their way from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to their calving shoals in Baja California Sur in Mexico.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

Approximately 4,500 Humpback Whales visit the Hawaiian Islands each year to bask in the warm waters, breed and give birth before migrating back to their Alaskan feeding grounds.

Humpback whales migrate from their warm, winter breeding grounds off the coast of Central America to feed in the nutrient - rich waters of the Monterey Bay throughout the spring, summer and fall.

Each year between December and April, thousands of gray, humpback and other whales migrate from their Arctic feeding grounds to Mexico's Baja Peninsula's warm waters to mate and give birth.

Clean natural mineral rich water fed from underground springs flows throughout the grounds and is collected for daily for.

Every year, humpback whales swim 3,000 miles from their summer feeding grounds in Alaska to mate and calve in Hawai`i's clear, warm waters.

Their common name alludes to the thick coat that is needed by the species for protection from the cold weather and frigid waters found in both their feeding grounds and the majority of their breeding grounds.2

During June and July you may be lucky enough to catch a sighting of a humpback whale as they migrate north from their feeding grounds in Antartica to warmer waters.

From the end of December through March, great gray whales from Siberian and Alaskan waters swim 6,000 to 10,000 km to the warm waters of Baja's lagoons to give birth and raise their calves for three months before starting their long journey back to their feeding grounds.

Humpback feeding grounds are in cold, productive coastal waters.

The whales begin their journey at their summer feeding grounds off Arctic waters of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

From November to March, Banderas Bay is home to humpback whales, migrating from their polar feeding grounds to breed and play in these safe warm waters.

The celebration is all about the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale with their newborn calves from the protected lagoons of western Baja to their ancestral feeding grounds in the cold waters of the Bering Sea.

These are feeding grounds for migratory shorebirds and home to several rare and threatened species: sea turtles, dugong and inshore dolphins to the lesser known mangrove - dwelling butterflies and false water rats.

The slopes of this canyon provide very productive waters and feeding grounds for marine mammals, so we are in the perfect position to find whales quickly.

These amazing cetaceans will enjoy the warmer water of the Great Barrier Reef to calve and mate before returning on their 10,000 km round trip back to the feeding grounds of Antarctica.

Each year, the Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) migrates from its feeding grounds in the Arctic to the warm Mexican waters and Lagunas, a journey of 8,500 to 11,000 miles.

Findings include that increasing ocean acidification reduces the availability of carbonate minerals in seawater, important building blocks for marine plants and animals, and that by 2100, 70 % of cold - water corals, key refuges and feeding grounds for commercial fish species, will be exposed to corrosive waters.