Sentences with phrase «catch quotas in»

The aim is to complete all West Greenland SLAs before the next Commission review of aboriginal whale catch quotas in 2018.

Not exact matches

The government has secured an increase in EU fish quotas after fishermen complained they were forced to throw more than half of healthy catches back into the sea.

The CFP allows EU boats to fish in nominally UK waters and vice versa and puts quotas on how many fish can be caught.

These meetings have in the past largely ignored scientific advice, setting catch quotas at levels that many scientists believe will ultimately cause tuna populations to crash.

Their findings suggest catch shares (the individual allocation of fishing quota to vessels) can reduce risk - taking and improve safety in commercial fishing.

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

«ICCAT has consistently set catch quotas for the East Atlantic and Mediterranean stock above levels recommended by its scientists and the failure of its management measures is demonstrated by the continuously decreasing population,» Monaco government officials say in their application.

UPDATE: Tuna boats in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean will be allowed to catch a total of 13,500 tonnes of bluefin tuna next year, down from the provisional quota of 19,950 tonnes.

The researchers see particular need for action for high seas fisheries, including a significantly improved international coordination in determining and enforcing restrictive catch quotas.

The European Commission proposed an overall cut in quotas for deep sea fishing in the northeast Atlantic for the next two years, but environmental groups said it should have reduced some catch limits to zero to allow stocks to recover

«A catch quota system provides the potential to remove many of the technical regulations currently in place, which will give fishermen increased flexibility in how they operate their businesses.

The commission's scientifically derived proposals on sustainable catch levels are routinely revised upwards when EU environment ministers meet, traditionally in late December, to set quotas for the year following.

According to Richard L. Haedrich, an ichthyologist writing in a recent issue of Natural History, catch quotas for deep - sea fishes were set «essentially by guesswork, relying on... knowledge of shallow - water species.

Hurt for North Carolina fish processors Kaelin added that with the help of electronic monitoring and reporting, it might be possible to address the problem with greater flexibility — allowing commercial boats to bring fish into port in New Jersey, but tally their catch against North Carolina's quota.

Under the whaling convention, governments are free to set their own scientific catch quotas — even in a sanctuary — so Japan can be expected to kill up to 440 minke whales next season.

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

But the authors did find that a combination of efforts, including economic incentives, ocean zoning and catch quotas, was the most effective in helping stem over-fishing.

U.S. boats have been catching a small fraction of their quota (about 10 to 15 percent of what they're allowed) in recent years.

Led by the French, Spanish, and Italians, joined by Turks and others, Mediterranean fishermen violated official quotas at will and engaged in an array of illegal practices: misreporting catch size, hiring banned spotter planes, catching undersized fish, and plundering tuna from North African waters where EU inspectors are refused entry.

In short, N.O.A.A.'s solution to the incidental catch of bluefin tuna by surface longline fishermen is to allow them a larger share of the quota.

The EU sets quota limits for each Member State to catch bluefin tuna, which is highly sought - after in Japan where the market price can reach $ 500 per kilo.

Despite this suspension, Iceland continues to permit whaling and has a government issued fin whale quota in effect for the 2011 season that continues to exceed catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium was removed.

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.

Two - thirds of the fish caught in some areas is thrown back, usually dead, because fleets exceed their quota, unintentionally catch juveniles or species for which they lack a quota, or because they prioritize higher - value fish and throw away lesser species.

Expedited processes to reach quota ahead of target date and caught machine error, saving company over $ 50,000 in waste