"female" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Amid all this poaching, many male fish were killed, as were female sturgeon who had not yet reached reproductive age.
- Attempts to fertilize the eggs of a rare female sturgeon caught in the Chesapeake Bay last year proved unsuccessful.
- As a general rule, 10 percent of the weight of a female sturgeon consists of eggs (although pollution-related diseases have helped lower the figure in the Caspian.)
- Besides the depredations of poachers, up to a third of the female sturgeon are suffering from chemical poisoning severe enough to render them infertile, scientists report.
- And the proportion of female sturgeon reaching spawning grounds has also fallen, to just 20 or 30 percent.
- "By the start of the caviar harvesting season in February of next year, we will be ready to take about one ton of caviar from our female sturgeon."
- It is an economically crucial point, because every batch of caviar costs the life of a female sturgeon, so a fingerling must be raised to maturity to replace it.
- One female pallid sturgeon that was caught in the upper Missouri River was estimated to be carrying 170,000 eggs, representing over 11 percent of its total body weight.
- Usually, everyone grabbed handfuls from the first female sturgeon caught and gorged themselves.
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