Sentences with phrase «mudge cod fishery»

For more than 100 years, the cod fishery had used broad - based profit sharing to give the crews of ships incentives for their performance and teamwork.

Jefferson, Washington, and the Congress chose to help the industry get back on its feet by what was essentially a tax cut (in lieu of tariffs paid for supplies coming from outside the U.S.) to the owners and workers of the cod fishery on the condition that the ship owners share the tax credits with all the workers.

In so doing, they rejected government ownership of cod fishery on the basis of Britain's failure to strengthen its whaling industry by nationalization, and they rejected outright subsidies to the wealthy owners who controlled the boats and warehouses on the basis that any government tax credits had to include workers.

Cod stocks have decreased even though fishing quotas should have maintained a sustainable cod fishery.

Unfortunately, as dogfish numbers have boomed in recent years, international markets have slumped, owing to a rebounding Northeast Atlantic cod fishery and changing tastes.

Within the past century, however, humans have flattened the coral reefs on the continental shelves and scraped the sea grass beds bare; a dead zone bigger than New Jersey grows at the mouth of the Mississippi; all the world's cod fisheries have collapsed.

Canada has banned cod fishing in what was once the richest cod fishery in the world, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador.

There are, you know, it's possible to do some of those things, but instead we just thought of it as a resource that had no limits and every time we have done that and case after case around the world, we have ended up causing the extinction or, you know, the collapse of the population or cod fishery or whales or whatever it is.

The collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery in the early 1990s saw the most abundant fish in the North Atlantic disappear due to overfishing.

Maintaining scientist - to - scientist ties can lead to official international programs with governments funding partnerships, as has happened in the Barents Sea cod fishery and NESS.

Unfortunately it turns out that cod stocks are in increasingly short supply as the effects of global warming play havoc with North America's primary cod fishery.

The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition.

Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region

In the 19th century, such retrieving dogs were especially popular with the cod fisheries around Newfoundland.

Mr. Matsunaga repurchased the boat after the war and continued to fish with it until declining stocks closed the Cape Mudge cod fishery in the 1980's.

How It Works: As Canada's cod fisheries dried up in the 1990's, so did the prospects for Fogo Island (population 2,435).

That's why this short film on the once and future New England cod fishery, produced by the Pew Environment Group, hits home:

The cod fishery off Newfoundland, Canada collapsed in 1992, leading to the loss of some 40,000 jobs in the industry.

The North Sea cod fishery has been declining owing to overfishing since the late 1960s.10 The North Sea cod catch fell 75 percent from 1987 to 2002, for example.11 In the past two decades, Bridlington fishermen shifted to shellfishing, 2 but the nearby town of Whitby is still known as the cod capital of the United Kingdom.12 England's coastal communities can ill afford further damage to the fishery from climate change.

Agricultural production, including dairy, fruit, and maple syrup, are likely to be adversely affected as favorable climates shift, while the center of lobster fisheries is projected to continue its northward shift and the cod fishery on Georges Bank is likely to be diminished.

Overfishing off the Atlantic coast, in part owing to the federal government's willful ignorance of its own best science, would lead to the catastrophic collapse of the cod fishery.

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.

We determined this would impact the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, but nobody would listen.

Not exact matches

The provincial fishery is a shadow of what it was before the 1992 commercial cod moratorium.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, for example, presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod stocks in the 1980s.

Cod fishing was the third largest export industry of the colonies, with salted cod mainly from New England fisheries sent to EuroCod fishing was the third largest export industry of the colonies, with salted cod mainly from New England fisheries sent to Eurocod mainly from New England fisheries sent to Europe.

However, this has allowed cod stocks to replenish themselves, meaning fisherman are finding it easier to haul in large trawls, especially in mixed fisheries.

But cod and other iconic New England seafood species are disappearing because of overfishing, and fisheries managers have drastically limited the amounts fishermen can catch.

Salmon and sea bass come mostly from fish farming, while cod and tuna stem from wild - capture fisheries.

Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.

Around Cape Cod, a similar array will monitor the ecosystems crucial to local fisheries for up to five years, after which the moorings will be moved to study other coastal ecosystems, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Commercial fishermen harvest a wide variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, carp, and salmon to shrimp, krill, lobster, clams, squid, and crab, in various fisheries for these species.

Since 2010, they have visited and studied fisheries ranging from Alaska halibut and Oregon Dungeness crab to Norway cod, Louisiana shrimp, Nile perch in Uganda and blue swimming crabs in Indonesia to gather information and refine the tool.

There is currently no significant commercial fishing in the area, but fisheries managers expect it to become a target for commercial fishers chasing cod and snow crab as ice melts and fisheries shift north.

That's led to a global collapse of many fisheries, such as cod in the North Atlantic.

Four Fish by Paul Greenberg (Penguin Press) Salmon, bass, cod, and tuna — through this troubled quartet of dinner - table mainstays, journalist Greenberg skillfully tells the tale of how the world's fisheries got to be in such a precarious state.

«Cod and climate: Researchers use the North Atlantic Oscillation as a predictive tool for managing an iconic fishery.»

And it contributes in a predictable way that may enable fishery managers to protect cod stocks from future collapse.

Last week the Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Scientific Advisory Committee reported that the tonnage of spawning cod on the Banks was «among the lowest ever observed».

These are known to be major spawning grounds for commercial cod, haddock, saithe and herring fisheries, and protecting the ecosystem there is important.

Now Canadian research vessels sweep the seas in vain, finding not a single school of cod in what was once the world's richest fishery.

«The Eliminator,» a fishing net, was a winner in 2007, designed to reduce bycatch of cod in the haddock fishery.

Biologists on a multi-state Fisheries Commission committee have found that warmer waters, disease and fishing have depleted lobster stocks, and they recently recommended a five - year ban on lobstering from Cape Cod to Virginia.

He attributes some of the success of Barents Sea cod stocks, by contrast, to a system in which scientists from either country «can provide a check» on each other's management decisions and fishing behaviors, since the Fisheries Commission formalizes a mechanism to share the resource.

And of course the history of this fish, and fishery, is beautifully explored in «Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World,» and «Four Fish.»

Cod are top - of - the - food - chain hunters that will find plenty to eat in their new turf, while the Pacific coast fishing industry will have a new and lucrative fishery to exploit.

Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist at Canada's Dalhousie University and lead scientist in this study, says: «From giant blue marlin to mighty bluefin tuna, from tropical groupers to Antarctic cod, industrial fishing has scoured the global ocean.

For example, cod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expectcod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expectCod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expected.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Mr. Lowe was a retired member of the RCMP engaged in an organized fishery protest involving fishing for cod out of season.