Sentence examples for fish exploit from inspiring English sources

In contrast, fall-run fish exploit the highly productive marine environment for growth and returned with well-developed gonads to spawn shortly after entering the lower stretches of the river.

The islanders also supported themselves through fishing, exploiting the high-quality catches that were to be made around the island's coasts.

Alternative reproduction tactics (ARTs) enable fish to exploit a wide spectrum of resources and to respond to conditions such as an imbalance of sexes in the population [ 1].

Kinematic experiments have confirmed that fish can exploit high pressure generated on the upstream side of a cylinder (Liao et al. 2003b).

Increases in swimming speed in warmer waters, although often physiologically induced, can promote behavioural thermoregulation and enable fish to exploit more optimal thermal niches.

The feeding habits of these Baikal cottoid fishes all exploit potential food resources; the pelagic species feed mainly on various pelagic crustaceans and make daily vertical migrations accompanying their prey, and the benthic forms feed chiefly on certain species of benthic copepod crustaceans.

When standardizing the population growth rate by generation time of the random fish, these differences revealed that the population growth rate of small-selected fish was 25.5% lower than the one of random fish in the absence of fishing, while it was 40.5% higher than the one of random fish when exploited with a minimum-length limit.

Last year, the World Wildlife Fund published a report showing that the population of fish species exploited by humans has fallen by half since 1970.

Numerical abilities have recently been investigated in fish by exploiting the natural tendency of social species to select the more numerous of two available social groups [13], [28], [29], [30].

Such vessels employ a range of fishing techniques to exploit demersal and pelagic fish species (e.g. dredging, beam trawling, pair-trawling, gill netting and longlining).

He tells lots of heroic stories about his fishing exploits.