milt

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They grabbed fish, one after another, by the tail and slid them down a chute into the hatchery building, to be stripped of their eggs and milt.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2020

“Green” means that the fish could produce milt or eggs, but the biologists are unsure.

From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2017

They’re so full of milt and roe that there’s no room in their stomachs for food.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2016

Another staff member picked up each dead male and squeezed milt into the eggs.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016

This is a favorable circumstance, since the milt of a single male is fully equal to the impregnation of the ova of many females.

From New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century by Various