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alevin
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alevin [ˈælɪvɪn]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a young fish, esp a young salmon or trout
[from French, from Old French alever to rear (young), from Latin levāre to raise]


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Out of 4,500 alevins, only 650 fry will make it to the parr stage.
Eggs are incubated and the hatched alevins - tiny fish with yolk sacks - are reared in tanks where plastic material mimics the
Responses of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) alevins to dissolved organic carbon and dissolved aluminum at low pH.
 
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