Sentence examples for spawning population from inspiring English sources

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

The species has been overfished for years and the spawning population is now down to 16% of its original size, according to the Oceanic Fisheries programme manager, John Hampton.

But researchers now say the survey might have sharply overestimated the number of young cod; the new data suggest the spawning population is at only about 20 percent of the rebuilding target.

Conventional tagging data were used to estimate the proportion of the spawning population density function encompassed by the closed area.

There was a very large (seven-fold) increase in estimated biomass of southern blue whiting at the Bounty Platform from 2006 to 2007, which was due to the recruitment of one very strong year class (2002) into the spawning population.

Speaking today at a press briefing, Japanese officials provided details on a plan agreed to last week that aims to rebuild the spawning population by halving the catch of juveniles and limiting takes of mature fish as well.

Due to Florida's location upstream of many other Caribbean reefs, genetic diversity of these corals might be influenced, and possibly increased, by receipt of immigrant larvae from upstream spawning populations [27].

While such a scenario might seem extreme, many rivers in North America within 300 km of extensive salmon aquaculture now harbour exclusively farm spawning populations or populations composed of a mix of spawners that include a very high proportion of farmed individuals (Morris et al. 2008).

As always when lucrative projects spawn populations of mobile men with money, prostitution rises.

Sampling in the spawning season allows to identify the spawning grounds and to target relatively homogeneous spawning populations.

ICCAT announced a multimillion-euro research program on the biology of spawning populations in the Mediterranean.