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If you swim upstream in the river and struggle against the flow you give yourself a hard time and achieve nothing.
But in the Loire, migrating fish such as salmons and eels find it difficult to swim upstream because of the dams.
Fish swim upstream in search of cleaner water, particularly during the monsoons.
We need some people with guts, with the courage to swim upstream, swim against the tide.
During these times the fishes swim upstream to spawn and they consume less food.
Every fall, Arctic char swim upstream to lay their eggs in freshwater lakes and to spend the winter.
The eels swim upstream to the extremities of various tributaries including the Gatineau River.
The alewife must swim upstream to spawn and are vital to the food webs and nutrient cycles of marine, freshwater and land habitats in the basin.
Salmon stop eating and rely on stored fat when they enter fresh water for the swim upstream.
The school appeared to swim upstream with the rising tide each day and went back out to sea on the ebb tide where they could be seen about a mile off the land.
So we have to swim upstream and that takes a lot of effort.
Not all salmon swim upstream, spawn, and die, we learn.
It's like the salmon that swim upstream to reproduce.
It's hard to swim upstream, to resist peer pressure.
I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.
Trying to navigate a stretch of river lacking in oxygen is a big hazard to any fish that might try to swim upstream or downstream at this location.
Open up your arms, your hearts, to the strength of the Eucharist and then you will be able to swim upstream in this world and become nourishment for others.
These freshwater eels spawn in the ocean, and then enter estuaries as glass eels and swim upstream to live in fresh water during their juvenile growth phase.
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