Sentence examples for spawning sites from inspiring English sources

Indeed, there is evidence from tagging experiments on Atlantic herring in the Baltic for a high degree of homing to spawning sites, and very low levels of migration between sites at spawning time [ 37], enhancing the potential for local adaptation.

The scientists also noted that other shorter rivers feeding into the Great Lakes could serve as spawning sites for the grass carp and other Asian carp species.

The successful recruitment of eels to Europe depends on the strength of the Gulf Stream to transport them from spawning sites in the Caribbean.

Capelin (Mallotus villosus) in coastal Newfoundland are known to spawn on beaches but deep-water (demersal) spawning sites in close proximity (< 4 km) have recently been documented.

In the present study, spawning sites of Atlantic cod were identified in the Kattegat using a combination of commercial and fishery independent data from 1996 to 2004.

Comparatively less work has occurred on the ways by which fish in lentic systems locate spawning sites, and more specifically, the ways by which displaced fish in these systems locate their broods post spawning.

Drifter simulations conducted with HOPS showed that krill spawned in areas coinciding with known krill spawning sites along the west Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf can be entrained into the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front (SACCF).

Snags are critical habitats and spawning sites for Murray cod.

Spawning sites are usually a bed of fine gravel in a riffle above a pool.

From the model, we quantified how survival rates changed during the warmest and coldest years at four important cod spawning sites in the North Atlantic.

Recent protection of spawning sites has reversed this trend for mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) [102], and may be effective for other species.