Sentence examples for spawning condition from inspiring English sources

Gross morphological examination, in addition to necropsies conducted by DFO employees, showed that the recovered salmon were sexually mature, and in spawning condition.

For example, cod spawning grounds are defined for assessment purposes by the proportion of females in spawning condition present at a given location [28].

All sampled individuals were of reproductive age and most were in spawning condition.

Individuals ranged from fish in spawning condition to recently spent, indicating the sampling of actively breeding individuals.

With the exception of Arctic and northern locations where sampling was restricted to summer months, most fish were in spawning condition.

However, the fish analyzed here were in spawning condition and thus a large proportion could reproduce locally with uncertain consequences for future separation and distribution of the genetic groups.

Paddlefish are also finicky about spawning conditions, reabsorbing their eggs if flow is too low and cold and waiting up to three years to spawn again, Mr. O'Bara said.

Calm waters and warm temperatures this spring have provided ideal spawning conditions for the crabs, which deposit their clusters of eggs on the sand.

Natal-river homing facilitates local adaptation because salmon return to environments with favorable spawning conditions [ 12].

To increase the odds of all spawners contributing to the next generation, we mimicked natural spawning conditions (Hutter et al. 2010) by transferring small groups of individuals to spawning boxes.

Multiple factors likely contribute to the phenomenon that hatchery-origin fish and wild-origin fish with hatchery ancestry are less productive under natural spawning conditions (Araki et al. 2008; Chilcote et al. 2011).