Sentences with phrase «blast fishing»

The idea was to find a badly damaged reef, where the worst problems, such as blast fishing, had stopped.

Given that marine scientists have previously identified significant problems with over fishing, exploitation and unsustainable practices such as blast fishing, this marine park could not come soon enough.

A reef called Magsaysay had been ravaged by blast fishing.

For example, try typing «destructive fishing practices» into Google, and news headlines such as «Blast fishing hurts Sawu Sea's marine habitats,» referring to a place in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), or «Dynamite fishing, trawl - nets ravaging Tomini Bay,» referring to a place in North Sulawesi, will show up in the search results.

Blast fishing is «like hitting the reef with a sledgehammer,» Harrison says.

By 2013, the blast fishing had stopped.

Jim and his group had a blast fishing a wide diversity of habitats — kelp beds and paddies, boiler rocks, sandy bottom, reef, grass beds, high spots, and drifting through the kelp fishing lanes and pockets.

Blast fishing has been abandoned, and environmentalists on the islands have pioneered a technology that uses a small electric current to accelerate coral growth, leading to a rebirth of marine life.

Our friends at Hookset BC having a blast fishing BC bulltrout!

Coral mining, blast fishing, over-population are the core reasons for its deterioration.