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Why fish lay so many eggs?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

fish eggs and young fish tend to have many predators that want to eat them so many of them don't survive. By laying large amounts of eggs, adult fish increases the probabilty that one of those eggs will survive to grow into a full grown fish and reproduce.

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