Sentence examples for brood stock from inspiring English sources

But he's saving them to use as brood stock.

Additional observations of the brood stock showed seasonal fluctuations in reproduction under constant laboratory conditions.

A brood stock, an adult spawning population of shellfish, provides seeds to maintain the wild stock.

The relationship between brood stock nutrition, external cues and reproductive performance is largely unknown and should be studied further.

Lobstermen also notch the tails of egg-bearing females, and return them to sea to join the protected brood stock.

Under the state-federal recovery program, biologists used fish they believed to be descendants of pure greenback cutthroat trout as brood stock.

"Larger lobsters are capable of reproducing greater and healthier numbers of offspring, and Maine lobster harvesters feel very strongly about protecting this brood stock".

As a consequence of mass mortality of adult brood stock in 2016 and 2017 owing to heat stress6, the amount of larval recruitment declined in 2018 by 89% compared to historical levels.

The juvenile scallops, called bugs, were spawned from native brood stock in May at two hatcheries in the Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center in Southold, the center of the county's initiative.

Writer attends a brood-stock auction at the club..

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers are ideal for the validation of maternal inheritance and the identification of brood-stock in aquaculture breeding programs.