Meaning of spatfall | Babel Free

Definitions

The arrival of spat at the beach during spawning season for shellfish;

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Based on these results, spatfall in Ban Laem would occur from July to September and again from December to February.”

“For example, inter-tidal mussel beds in the Wadden Sea almost disappeared during the late 1980s due to a combination of exploitation and low spatfall.”

“Fluctuations in annual yields of our cockle, mussel and oyster fisheries are largely but not entirely due to good or poor spatfalls.”

“For the long-term data set, spatfall events and the amount of spatfall increased markedly with strong offshore winds. On days with high tidal range, there tended to be an increase in the amount of spatfall, but this trend was not significant statistically.”

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