Sentences with phrase «catching illegal fishing»

Applications of the technology include catching illegal fishing, tracking hurricanes and typhoons, detecting forest fires and monitoring volcanoes as soon as they begin.

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Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

The Parliament also approved so - called conditionality rules: If fishermen are caught infringing CFP rules — for instant using illegal gear, overfishing, or illegally discarding low - value fish — they will not receive subsidies.

And some nations have over - or underreported catches for political reasons, or ignored illegal landings, further complicating efforts to understand how fish stocks — a key source of protein — are faring.

In a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, they demonstrate that for countries where illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is prevalent, addressing such activity could kick - start fishery recovery without reducing local fishing effort, catch and profit.

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We host three rangers from the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association (TASA), whose conservation efforts curtail illegal fishing, fishing methods and undersized catch.

If you keep coming back you can also catch a fish so big that it's deemed «illegal» by the guy who runs the place — and, if you're feeling particularly mean, you can steal his hat and throw it in the pond.

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.

The world's oceans are under threat from both illegal and mass industrial fishing, in which millions of fish are caught and discarded, experts warned Tuesday.

Their findings — based on analyzing automatic identification signals, which show movements of krill trawlers, and cargo and tanker vessels — found vessels that appeared to be transferring catch at sea to large refrigerated cargo ships, a practice called transshipment that has raised concerns about illegal fishing elsewhere.

Illegal boats were caught with over 350 dead sharks in the Galapagos where shark fishing is banned, and an estimated 2,000 sharks were slaughtered in the Malpelo wildlife sanctuary in Columbian waters.

So far, it's been easy for fishing vessels to carry out illegal fishing activities like catching more than is regulated, fishing during off - seasons, fishing in protected waters or with illegal methods because it's hard to monitor ships that are far out in the ocean, out of sight.