How to Use hatchery in a Sentence
hatchery
noun-
Hired by hatcheries, chicken sexers are able to tell the gender mainly by intuition.
— Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 7 July 2017 -
State officials blamed a faulty wire switching off a pump at the Thermalito hatchery.
— Ryan Sabalow, sacbee.com, 11 May 2017 -
That information could help the hatcheries figure out ways to deter whale predation.
— Author: Steph Yin, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 July 2017 -
Protecting wild fish as opposed to hatchery fish provides a tougher more resilient fish able to withstand hard times, the scientists said.
— Denis Cuff, The Mercury News, 16 May 2017 -
The hatchery annex was never designed to hold so many fish long-term, and there were no auxiliary pumps or pump failure alarms, Hughan said.
— Washington Post, 11 May 2017 -
Lakes have been well stocked with both Department of Fish and Wildlife hatchery rainbows and larger trophy trout from Oregon.
— Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2017 -
The hatchery is in limited operation, and the Donaldson trout are getting larger.
— sacbee, 3 July 2017 -
The goal of reopening the seasons is to harvest targeted fish while protecting others, such as wild Chinook and adults needed for broodstock at hatcheries.
— idahostatesman, 2 June 2017 -
The seeds are put in a hatchery where the kelp can grow.
— Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 3 May 2021 -
Learn more about the hatcheries at michigan.gov/hatcheries.
— Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2017 -
The hatchery closed in 2008 due to heavy rain and fire damage.
— Roberto Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023 -
Warm weather months are the top time for birds to raid the hatchery ponds.
— Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 21 May 2018 -
Powell phoned the hatchery and asked his staff to call around.
— Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2021 -
The hatchery, 30 feet long, is built in the shape of a giant green sea turtle.
— New York Times, 7 July 2018 -
The trout pond is back, too, to provide a chance to catch dinner fresh from the hatchery.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2018 -
In 1994, the Nez Perce Tribe began restoring the fishery with the aid of hatcheries.
— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 Oct. 2023 -
With a turn of a wheel, the hatchery’s flowing water was cut off.
— Alexis Stevens, ajc, 6 June 2018 -
Some of those wild springers are being passed along to the hatchery for in-basin broodstock.
— Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 30 July 2022 -
The wounded half-cylinder of the hatchery gaped open high above the pampas grass.
— Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018 -
Plus, the state hatchery system doesn’t raise all the species currently found in the wild.
— Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021 -
Pretty soon the back seat was a bird hatchery, and even dad couldn’t suppress a smile.
— Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 28 June 2018 -
The hatchery is located in Cornville, two hours north of Phoenix.
— Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022 -
From there, the feds dole out the eggs to multiple Game and Fish hatcheries in Arizona.
— Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 9 May 2018 -
The Matunuck hatchery will have two main floors and a third-floor mezzanine.
— Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023 -
In the 1800s, the site held a farm and what’s believed to have been the nation’s first freshwater fish hatchery.
— Grant Segall, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2019 -
The limits remain the same, but now one of the salmon in the daily bag can be a chinook, hatchery or wild.
— oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021 -
And those draw baby fowl from just about half a dozen large hatcheries across the country.
— Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017 -
Behind the hatchery is a drawing of a Chippewa Chief carved in 1937.
— Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024 -
The pot includes money for restoration of kelp forests, removal of obsolete dams, and fish hatchery expansions.
— Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024 -
Some hatcheries will also provide fish for additional stockings this fall.
— Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024
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