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For example, fish could potentially reach satiation and cease to feed before reaching a critical energy level, or energy used to digest low-benefit macrophyte material may outweigh any energy gained by eating more profitable fish eggs. In conclusion, our data support the concept of a widening of perch diet in spring in the Hamry Reservoir to take advantage of a seasonal increase in an easily obtained and profitable prey source (fish eggs).
Consumption of plant material by perch (Perca fluviatilis)
First, natural variation in morphological features of fish eggs, within a species, is common because of the effects of both maternal (Chambers and Leggett, 1996; Marteinsdottir and Steinarsson, 1998; Marteinsdottir and Begg, 2002) and environmental (Chambers and Leggett, 1996; Kucera et al., 2002) factors.
Integrating DNA barcoding of fish eggs into ichthyoplankton monitoring programs
The population density of fin fish eggs observed during the study period (January-2011 to December-2012) is given in Figure 45.
Distribution and abundance of finfish eggs from muthupettai, south east coast of India
Anchovy eggs and unidentified fish eggs were less numerous.
Importance of the Rio de la Plata estuarine front (southwestern Atlantic Ocean) in the feeding ecology of argentine anchovy, Engraulis anchoita (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae)/Importancia del frente estuarial del Rio de la Plata (Oceano Atlantico sudoccidental) en la ecologia trofica de la anchoita argentina, Engraulis anchoita (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae)
It establishes new controls on the importation of fish eggs and new rules to raise sanitary and environmental standards, as well as reduces the density of the fish raised through cage farming.
Swimming upstream: Chile's salmon industry is responding to mounting threats
Individuals were observed eating smaller prey items off the surface of the kelp which were later identified as fish eggs, most likely belonging to Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi).
Aggregations of sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) feeding on fish eggs and kelp in Prince William Sound, Alaska
Local schools each received 100 fish eggs in January and students have since been rearing wild brown trout in special aquarium hatcheries in their classrooms.
Return of the baby trout
The fish eggs - flown in from Iran to her salon - cost pounds 235 a time.
TASTY ZETA'S A HOT DISH
For many years, a fungal removal agent called malachite green was commonly used to control parasitic water mold on fish eggs. However, a revision in Japan's Pharmaceutical Affairs Law banned the use of this substance in August 2005.
Kobe Steel's Antibacterial Coating Improves Fish Yield at Commercial Fish Farms
Regarding "A Warning Label About Nothing" (Opinion/Analysis by Dan Berger, March 2007): Although I thoroughly enjoy caviar (fish eggs) with many wines, especially Champagne, I have not embarked on the practice of consuming isinglass (a form of collagen derived from sturgeon air bladders) in any appreciable amounts with or without my favorite wine.
Ado About "Nothing"
Reptile eggs, bird eggs, fish eggs, insect eggs, and even dinosaur eggs are all strikingly represented in watercolors and ink.
Aston, Dianna: An Egg Is Quiet
Fish eggs, in contrast, have a tinyhole--a micropile--that a sperm must find and enter.
Saving sturgeon: ancient fish face increasingly tough times

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