Sentences with phrase «catch shares fishery»

One sought to restrict the choices available to fishery management councils by gutting funds for catch shares fishery management programs that have been proven to help fisheries and fishing jobs.

Not exact matches

The safety benefits observed in the sablefish fishery could also be expected in other fisheries managed through catch shares, the researchers concluded.

Catch shares, a form of «rights - based» fisheries management adopted for several fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, may put an end to the kind of daring exploits chronicled in the Deadliest Catch.

They said «rights - based» management such as catch shares resolves «many of the problems associated with the competitive race to fish experienced in fisheries around the world.»

Indeed, the safer practices corresponded with an 87 percent reduction in the rate of safety incidents the U.S. Coast Guard reported for the sablefish fishery before and after catch shares went into effect.

A new study of fishing practices found that the «risky» behavior that makes fishing one of the most dangerous lines of work dropped sharply following the adoption of catch shares management in the West Coast fixed gear sablefish fishery.

NOAA Fisheries has since expanded catch shares management to other West Coast fisheries, including the groundfish fisheryFisheries has since expanded catch shares management to other West Coast fisheries, including the groundfish fisheryfisheries, including the groundfish fishery in 2011.

Catch share programs, in which regional fishery councils divvy up quota shares to fishermen, could help ease this burden.

But not perfect: Echoing recommendations in an NRC report released last month (ScienceNOW, 9 December 1997), the panel recommended changes in the way that government scientists collect, analyze, and share catch statistics and other fisheries data, and called on them to submit their work to more rigorous independent review.

Last September he and his colleagues reported that when governments, instead of merely trying to limit the total catch in a fishery, assign individual fishermen a specific share of it, the fishermen stop racing each other to catch as many fish as possible.

«Fisheries managed with «catch shares» don't just slow the collapse, they prevent it,» Costello says.

And when fisheries switched to catch shares, fish populations stopped declining and, according to some analyses, may have reversed course.

The researchers analyzed more than 11,000 fisheries over 50 years and found that those being managed using catch shares were about half as likely to collapse as those without catch shares.

Setting up a system of controlled fishing permits — known as catch shares — has helped protect fisheries.

This legislation manages fishery resources, improves innovative catch share programs, and preserves essential habitat, and in 2011 it implemented limits to end overfishing in all U.S. fisheries.

The Budget advances the President's National Ocean Policy with funding for coastal zone management and planning, competitive grants in support of regional ocean partnerships, integrated ecosystem assessments, catch - share based fisheries management, and research on ocean acidification.

The quotas divide a limited total catch exclusively among fishermen who work a fishery, and allow them to sell the rights to their share.

One form of catch shares is «individual transferable quotas» (ITQs), which give individual fishermen ownership rights stake in a set percentage of a fishery's overall catch quota.

Catch shares programs have been successful in rebuilding threatened fisheries while improving economic returns and job safety for fishermen.