Sentence examples for mass spawning of from inspiring English sources

A total of 867 offspring from an industrial mass spawning of 66 broodstocks were analysed.

Fry production in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus is typically achieved by mass spawning of males and females stocked in large hapas suspended in ponds.

It also feeds on small fish and the clouds of eggs and sperm during mass spawning of fish.

The same documentary showed footage of a whale shark timing its arrival to coincide with the mass spawning of fish shoals and feeding on the resultant clouds of eggs and sperm.

A similar but much smaller aggregation of whale sharks reported from Gladden Spit, Belize, was related to mass spawning of snappers [15], [16], whereas in the north-central Gulf of Mexico, a smaller aggregation of R. typus was associated with a fish spawning event [4].

Future research should seek to discern the effects of both salmon and cod farms during the spawning season for cod resident in fjords containing farms, as a range of different effects are possible during this period, including mass spawning of farmed cod in cod farms [37] and possible avoidance of fjords containing salmon farms by spawning cod [38].

Due to the rapid development of the zebrafish eggs and the demand to inject in at least similar egg stages to assure similar distribution patterns of the contaminant within the embryo, we advise to favor group spawning over mass spawning for further applications.

Aspects of the unique mass spawning aggregations of giant cuttlefish in this region of South Australia may have contributed to the evolution of this behaviour through both high abundances of spawning and weakened post-spawning cuttlefish in a small area (>10,000 animals on several kilometres of narrow rocky reef), as well as potential long-term and regular visitation by dolphin pods to this site.

At mass spawning aggregations of giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) in the Upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia, a wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) was observed and recorded repeatedly catching, killing and preparing cuttlefish for consumption using a specific and ordered sequence of behaviours.

This is the largest-scale mass spawning event of coral in the world, and is triggered by changes in sea water temperature, tides, sunrise and sunset and by the intensity of the moonlight.

This flow is strongest in autumn (April/May) (Holloway and Nye 1985; Holloway 1995), during the time of the major mass-spawning of corals and was thought to create unidirectional gene flow between the regionally separated coral reef systems (Simpson 1991).