Sentences with phrase «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.

Catastrophic ecosystem failures can destroy industries and threaten food supplies — just think of the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fisheries in the early 1990s or insect outbreaks that devastated Northern spruce and fir forests in the 1970s.

Waldman points out that cod fisheries off Newfoundland, Canada, and Georges Bank, New England, crashed decades ago and remain threatened.

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.

The collapse cost thousands of Canadian fishers and plant workers their jobs, and the northern cod fishery has never recovered.

It has been 16 years since the demand for cod led to the collapse of the once superabundant cod fisheries in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland.

Two years later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration instituted an unprecedented six - month closure of the entire Gulf of Maine cod fishery to allow stocks to recover.

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

As their collaborative scientific work grew, it informed management of the major cod fishery in the Barents, said biologist John Waldman.

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.

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).

I think the US should establish a marine recovery university in Gloucester Massachusetts to experiment with restoration of the George's Bank cod fishery, among other things.

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

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

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

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.

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

The new finding sends a message that past sustainability levels for the cod fishery won't necessarily work in managing future cod populations, says Ray Hilborn, a fisheries ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who was not involved in the study.

Examples would be the salmon fishery of Alaska, the cod fishery off the Lofoten islands or the tuna fishery of the Eastern Pacific.

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.

«The Atlantic cod fishery has been the poster child of fishery science and challenges in the field,» said co-author Kimberly Oremus of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

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.

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

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.

Instrumental records of Greenland's air temperatures, also recorded the fastest rate of warming during the 1930s and 40s44 coinciding with increased inflows of warm Atlantic water.53, 54,55,56 Accordingly intruding warm waters also transported more southerly fish species, prompting the birth of Greenland's Cod fishery.59 CO2 driven models have completely failed to simulate this Arctic warming.60

Closing the cod fisheries in Newfoundland was akin to banning corn production in Iowa.

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.

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

If it were also to explain plankton decrease, the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery and the paucity of European eels then that would be a bonus.