Sentences with phrase «fishing effort management»

Fishing effort management is a combination of limitations to the fleet capacity and the amount of time that can be spent at sea by that fleet.

Not exact matches

«The responses of fish species to extreme weather events will need to be considered when planning management strategies to ensure efforts are appropriately targeted to maintain key population segments and critical evacuation routes,» said Dave Secor, the study's co-author at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

«We went on to investigate whether a discard ban in conjunction with different management scenarios would work — such as reducing fishing effort and limiting the amount of fish that can be landed.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services has played a leadership role in this effort by convening an advisory group including representatives from industry, state and tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations that made comprehensive recommendations on appropriate wind farm siting and best management practices [7].

In a last - ditch effort to save the Central Valley's collapsing chinook salmon populations, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to recommend the closure of fishing operations this past Thursday, reports The Sacramento Bee's Matt Weiser.