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

“Even one drop of milt can fertilize 1,000 eggs,” Nehring said.

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

Traditionally, the practice entailed killing fertile salmon and hand-mixing eggs and male milt, or sperm, then raising the offspring packed in containers or pools.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016

One male and two females that I examined on that date were ripe or nearly so; eggs seemed well developed and milt flowed freely from the male.

From Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas by Minckley, W. L.