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> Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct What does this mean?
by jacksonkmarley 5y ago
> Yangtze dam separates Paddlefish, largest, from spawn, now extinct
What does this mean?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- Y_Y 5y agoThe spawn of the paddlefish look a lot like commas.
- pvaldes 5y agoFish embryos look often like that
- bombcar 5y agoAfter reading the article it parses out as “dam separates the largest paddlefish from its spawn, fish is now extinct”.
- Chris2048 5y agoBut it's not "largest paddlefish", it's "paddlefish - the largest fish"
- jacksonkmarley 5y agoIt seems like a poor HN title for a very interesting article (which has a perfectly serviceable actual title btw). The saddest thing is that there are apparently technical solutions to this that could have potentially saved the species. The article mentions fish ladders and bypasses for dams. I'm not sure if the ladders are suitable for a huge fish like this, or whether it has the necessary jumping ability, but some sort of fish bypass seems like a good idea. Hopefully this can be implemented in the future for other similarly endangered species.
- msrenee 5y agoThey could even have been saved by a captive breeding program. Their American cousins are the subject of a lot of breeding programs. There's a number of state and federal hatcheries that capture breeding adults, strip the roe and milt, and return the adults to the wild. The fertilized eggs hatch into tiny paddle fish and they're raised in ponds until they're big enough to be released in the wild. The same is done with the pallid sturgeon, whose breeding habitat in the US is more or less destroyed due to the channelization of rivers for use by boats. It wasn't inevitable, but now it's impossible to bring them back.
- jacksonkmarley 5y agoThey did mention in the article some captive breeding attempts, but not sure if that was a case of 'too little, too late'.
- gadf 5y agoBlame the title limit. Thanks!
- Arubis 5y agoWe’ve found an instance where a semicolon would be clarifying: > Yangtze dam separated Paddlefish, largest (fish), from spawn; now extinct.
- cptskippy 5y agoThat still confusing and seems like something only a machine would produce.
- DubiousPusher 5y agoOr a 19th century novelist.
- cptskippy 5y agoI could see Joyce doing it, and also I could see myself stabbing Joyce with a plastic fork.
- doggodaddo78 5y agoCorrection: a plastic spork.
- chapium 5y agoFwiw, I understood it immediately.
- tommica 5y agoPlease come this way, there is a captcha that we need you to solve...
- kingofpandora 5y agoThat's an incorrect use of a semicolon ... and it doesn't fix the problem in the sentence.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoLargest fish (Paddle) extincted by dam separating spawn. ......nope still doesn't make sense.