spawner

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• Rehabilitation of this stock may now depend upon transplanting spawners or releasing hatchery-reared juveniles.

  Academic text (1997)

• The healthy female salmon is a vital spawner that ensures the next generation thrives by laying thousands of eggs.

• For growing juvenile coho, fuel provided by dead spawners comes at a critical time.

  Academic text (1997)

• Up to 95% of the stomach contents of a rapidly growing young fish are likely to be spawner-derived.

  Academic text (1997)

• Within hours of a spawner's death, its carcass is invaded by invertebrates.

  Academic text (1997)

• For Pacific salmon, suitable habitat may severely limit the potential number of spawners and hence the carrying capacity of small streams.

  Academic text (1991)

• The fleet encounters a mass of fish that may include several species, spawners from a variety of creeks within the same species, and juveniles.

  Academic text (2007)

• Both studies show the dependence of populations upon upstream spawners.

  Academic text (1997)

• Like coho, young sockeye overwinter in their home waters and rely on nutrients from adult spawners during a crucial growing period.

  Academic text (1997)

• During the mid-October to mid-January spawning season, field technicians counted the number of live adult spawners and fresh carcasses.

  Academic text (2001)

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