Sentences with phrase «about fish populations»

If you are truly concerned about fish populations and would like to see them return to normal levels, stop eating them.

For anyone who is concerned about fish populations (and that should be everyone who likes to eat fish!)

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They don't care that the planet is overloaded and the seas are fished out, and if they ever think about our resources, they have the comeback that the total population of the planet could live in Texas.

Researchers report in Conservation Letters this week that the monk seal population in Hawaii's Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument is shrinking by about 4 percent a year, while a sub-population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands next door — where fishing, development and boat activity are permitted — is increasing by 7 percent a year.

Tagging data reveal that, among other things, many of these creatures regularly traverse the Atlantic and mix with the population on the other side, thus raising questions about current fish management policies.

«Rachel was right about the drastic effect DDT was having on populations of birds, fish, and other wildlife,» Robbins says.

The nine animals removed for reintroduction represented about 20 percent of the study area's fisher population.

Commercial fishers have long resisted quotas and moratoriums that would allow fish populations to rebound, and governments have not done much about it.

It feeds on tiny plankton, devastating their populations — and in turn it brings about crashes in the numbers of fish that depend on the plankton for food.

It turns out that within five to 11 generations of fish (about 25 to 50 years), the foreign genes introduced into wild populations through hybridization are removed by natural selection.

It may have a population level effect and that is what the Fish and Wildlife Service is concerned about.

With the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of GM salmon (SN Online: 11/19/15), for example, scientists agree that there is a slim possibility that escapees could harm native fish populations; that risk could be curtailed, however, with strict oversight about where and how such fish are farmed.

POPULATION crashes in many species of reef fish may be linked to an excess of males brought about by fishing — and imposing quotas won't remedy the situation.

«A fully annotated salmon genome will provide important information about the impact of cultured fish escapees on wild populations, about preservation of populations that are at risk, about strategies for fighting pathogens, and about environmental sustainability issues,» says ICSASG chair Dr. Steinar Bergseth at the Research Council of Norway.

Alnes is a tiny fishing village with a population of about 200 people.

The King Cruiser wreck, which sank in May 1997, about halfway from Phuket to Phi Phi is a more advanced dive due to its resting point at 30 meters, it has created a fantastic artificial reef with many fish circling the area including a growing population of lionfish and scorpionfish, barracuda, schools of snappers.

But this article is about the Mediterranean and its local asset used to be fishing but now the fish populations have been wiped out so I was wondering.

There is an interesting article in Science News about modeling fish populations.

He was a recent speaker (from 37.20) at the 2011 Heartland Institute conference, and can be counted on to produce a contrarian take on any particular issue that anyone might care about — ranging from climate, to mercury in fish and polar bear population dynamics.

[Soon] was a recent speaker (from 37.20) at the 2011 Heartland Institute conference, and can be counted on to produce a contrarian take on any particular issue that anyone might care about — ranging from climate, to mercury in fish and polar bear population dynamics.

Using new technology scientists learned that the fish population at depths below about 200 meters is far more dense than previously believed.

We're sitting at about half the pre-industrial fish and plankton populations.

The Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission or Te Ohu Kai Moana (TOKM) came about after an arrangement between the Crown and its Māori population between 1989 and 1992 to establish a settlement which provided the basis for Māori ownership for a proportion of New Zealand's commercial fishing industry.