spawning trigger

spawning trigger
an environmental cue or change which stimulates a fish to spawn. Often temperature (increase or decrease) but can be a salinity change, increase in food supply, water level or daylength. Some fish do not have triggers, breeding continuously or only at a certain point in their life cycle

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