Sentence examples for fish die off from inspiring English sources

When large animals or fish die off, the population of their natural prey may soar, but unsustainably so, leading to overgrazing or the extinction of other species in the food chain.

Fish die off or leave.

During the 1960s, high levels of phosphorus caused massive algal blooms, accompanied by oxygen depletion and marked fish die offs [ 82].

In 2001, he divided his stock of 50,000 fish and moved half of it to a farm that he opened north of Seoul, hedging against the risk of his fish dying off together in an accident, like a power outage disabling temperature regulation systems.

But in the weeks since, Mr. LaPlante and others in the region have noticed varied species of fish dying off — not in big numbers as with the round gobies, but far more than usual.

Also included are "Dead Zone" data where fish tend to die off when they enter these areas.

He said a decision about this year's flows would not be made until studies of the fish die-off are completed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Academy of Sciences.

By now, we have become practically inured to these sorts of losses and depredations, skimming past news about the hole in the ozone, or the latest mysterious fish die-off, or the recent study warning that as many as half the planet's plant species are in danger of extinction.

At least in some quarters, the sudden death of large numbers of wild animals has been read as a dire message to humanity: scientists have pointed out that the first biblical plague of Egypt, a fish die-off in a blood-red Nile, is an apt description of the effects of the acidification of the river's water.

Algal blooms and fish die-offs almost always follow this sort of nitrogen fertilization event.

Dunkard Creek, a stream that follows the Mason-Dixon Line, had recently suffered one of the worst fish die-offs in state history, and he wanted to know what had happened.