That sale was the spawning ground for "rex disease" according to Richard Polsky, author of Boneheads, a new book about the fossil market.
Another surprise was the discovery of drifting eggs as late as September, contrary to previous belief that the spawning season ends in July.
"There's an awful lot of fish in Tweed and now the urge to get up into the spawning grounds is increasing, " said Mr Yonge.
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The spawning habits of the eel is the exact opposite of the other migratory river users - the salmon and the sea-trout which migrate upstream to spawn.
The spawning stock of tuna is only 36% of its level 30 years ago, and ICCAT's scientists warned in September that the Mediterranean bluefin was on the brink of collapse.
Steppenwolf, the spawning ground of the superstars John Malkovich, Joan Allen and its cofounder Gary Sinise, takes 39 interns a year, and they learn, hands-on, the workings of a professional theater.
But dams, diversions and recent drought have combined to push the spawning salmon population in the Klamath well below the 35, 000-fish threshold deemed necessary for the river to maintain a sustainable salmon population.
The spawning process takes about 45 minutes, during which a female will emit anywhere from 10, 000 to around 60m eggs, only a small fraction of which will be lucky enough to meet their mates.
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He also led a crusade to free up another huge chunk of spectrum, culling it from military airspace and idle swaths to create the same sort of anything-goes turf that served as the spawning grounds for Wi-Fi.
In the Winnebago system, the fish were helped by state laws and a period in the 1970s and 1980s when the polluted waters were so murky that they were hard to catch, except during the spawning season.
Female sturgeon don't become sexually mature until their 20s and spawn about every four years, so the spawning season, in which they surface from the depths to lay their eggs on rocky shores, is an extremely important time for the species.
The bust, the result of a seven-year sting operation, happened in the Chesapeake Bay, the primary spawning and nursery ground for striped bass on the east coast.
The global economic crisis is spawning the plaint that there is a lack of leadership.
For the past 18 months, Mr O'Neal has led the firm's vast stockbroking arm, the traditional spawning-ground for its leaders.
But not all of the reports carried by the social network proved accurate, with the crisis spawning a flurry of fake stories.
Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males.
Toad populations are in decline across the UK, and so information on the location of spawning ponds, hibernation places and the migration routes is vital.
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The nine-year-old site is best known for spawning the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous, and all manner of Internet memes and elements of Internet culture.
He shared a Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and later went on to refine transistor technology, spawning the modern age of semiconductors and of Silicon Valley.
Among the company's motivations to settle before a trial would be to avoid the higher end of that range, which U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier could impose if he ruled the company acted with gross negligence before the well blowout on April 10, 2010, that triggered an explosion, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
As we strolled the pier with his staff and clambered down onto the beach, a seal swam just offshore between us and the silk curtains deployed to prevent winter flounder from spawning near the construction site.
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The song, sung so slowly that the syllables start spawning syllables, lasts for a few seconds less than five minutes.
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Souther worked with The Eagles, spawning several of their hits including Heartache Tonight, Victim of Love and New Kid In Town.
For instance, military demand went off a cliff in the 1990s, just as the dot.com boom was spawning unprecedented prosperity in the commercial sector.
James Nagler, a University of Idaho assistant professor of zoology who led the study, said the results of the genetic testing on the natural-spawning chinook came as a surprise.
Polymeropoulos, when he was at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, pinpointed a gene that causes a rare inherited form of the disease by spawning mutations in a protein called alpha-synuclein.
The growing success of the tourney is spawning imitators.
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Officially unveiled on May 21, the Leap immediately caught the attention and imagination of consumers, developers and media around the globe, spawning nearly overwhelming numbers of pre-orders and developer kit requests from over 150 countries.
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If some somehow made it to the ocean, they would die in the warm currents thousands of miles from their spawning grounds in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
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