spawning

State officials say the Newsom administration’s ongoing efforts to help salmon populations recover include restoring tidal habitats, modernizing infrastructure, removing barriers that hinder fish migration and reintroducing salmon in traditional spawning areas upstream from dams.

Both sunlight and moonlight play roles in regulating the spawning and migration of Japanese eels.

But some of the massive, velvety echinoderms began the spawning process spontaneously — three days before the group would arrive.

And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so.

In many ways, the so-called "monster shark" is regularly featured in TV marathons like "Shark Week" while spawning horror films like "The Meg."