How To Use catadromous In A Sentence
- This migration towards saltwater, in order to spawn, occurs in all catadromous species.
- Finally, there was a September eel fishery in the rivers that sustained large runs of these catadromous fish, followed by fall hunting for elk and beavers, and by December, ice-fishing for tomcod.
- Anguillid eels are catadromous, meaning that maturing individuals spend most of their lives in estuaries or freshwater but migrate to the ocean to reproduce.
- This migration towards saltwater, in order to spawn, occurs in all catadromous species.
- Most arctic diadromous species are actually anadromous (i.e., use estuarine and/or marine environments for feeding and rearing; and freshwater environments for spawning, early life history, and, in the case of most arctic species, overwintering); only freshwater eels (Anguillidae) and some lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are catadromous (i.e., breed at sea and rear in freshwater). Effects of climate change on arctic anadromous fish
- Finally, there was a September eel fishery in the rivers that sustained large runs of these catadromous fish, followed by fall hunting for elk and beavers, and by December, ice-fishing for tomcod.
- Anguilla rostrata is a catadromous species that spawns in the Atlantic Ocean and ascends streams and rivers in North and South America.
- Anadromous and catadromous species such as salmon, herring and eels are more vulnerable than cod, however, because large numbers can be taken with a few strategically placed weirs.
