Sentences with phrase «cod populations»

Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.

In fact, the panel said that tighter restrictions may be needed to protect cod populations in the Gulf of Maine.

Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds.

But closer to home, the northwest Atlantic cod population, which also collapsed due to overfishing, has yet to recover despite severe limits on fishing.

As climate change causes the Barents Sea to grow warmer, for some years now other fish species like capelin and Atlantic cod have moved further northward, creating new competition that could reduce the polar cod population.

If the polar cod population in the Barents Sea actually does shrink, the juvenile fish under the ice of the Eastern Arctic could become even more important — especially in order to make up for losses elsewhere.

The study shows that when the cod population in the central Baltic increases, it spreads into larger areas and spills over into adjacent marginal systems where it usually does not occur, as for example the Gulf of Riga.

The crisis wasn't solved, and the cod population of the Grand Bank has yet to recover.

Not exact matches

But a report in Nature found cod and haddock populations are approaching pre-collapse levels.

support the dispersal of plants and animals residing in refuge pools along the Great Darling Anabranch, enabling fish, such as Murray cod and golden perch, to disperse, and potentially reconnect with populations in the River Murray

The Lower Darling supports one of the most robust populations of Murray cod in the Murray Darling Basin.

Mass Audubon protected roughly 25 % of the population — 42 pairs from Buzzards Bay to outer Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and north to Boston Harbor.

CATCHING COD Researchers in the Gulf of Maine catch Atlantic cod to study how the fish populations have been affected by temperatuCOD Researchers in the Gulf of Maine catch Atlantic cod to study how the fish populations have been affected by temperatucod to study how the fish populations have been affected by temperature.

He highlights ways to save these four fish, such as making cod fishermen more like «herders» managing particular swaths of water where they have an incentive not to drive the population too low.

They also found that while the NAO - induced population decrease persisted until the fish were 6 years old, it affected cod catch for up to two decades.

I.e. the Finnish coast was a sink population for the southern type of flounders, much as was the case for cods during the same period.

There are, you know, it's possible to do some of those things, but instead we just thought of it as a resource that had no limits and every time we have done that and case after case around the world, we have ended up causing the extinction or, you know, the collapse of the population or cod fishery or whales or whatever it is.

They can for example examine how different populations — such as skrei, Norwegian coastal cod and Baltic Sea cod — compare.

Most of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) sold in Norway comes from wild populations, but it is possible to produce cod in aquaculture.

Wrasse consume many molluscs and crustaceans, and play a key role controlling populations of sea urchins that can deplete seafloor kelp forests — vital sanctuaries for many marine species including young cod.

In some species, like Atlantic cod, populations of older fish fell over 95 per cent (Current Biology, doi.org/cc5t).

Researchers used data from the Cape Cod Family Health Study, a population - based retrospective study designed to examine the influence of prenatal exposure to PCE - contaminated drinking water on multiple outcomes during pregnancy and childhood.

(An important part of Sturgis» efforts to create a diverse student body is recruiting from low - income and immigrant families in neighboring towns, including from the Brazilian population on Cape Cod who speak Portuguese as their first language.)

Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region

This world famous dive site is home to a resident population of friendly, «small diver size» potato cod.

How It Works: As Canada's cod fisheries dried up in the 1990's, so did the prospects for Fogo Island (population 2,435).

Buddy up with dive size fish at the world famous Cod Hole, witness Osprey Reef's shark population including hammerheads and grey whalers and cruise the Ribbon Reefs.

Spend the next two days exploring various reef sites, including the Cod Hole with its resident population of giant, friendly Potato Cod.

Any impact on the populations of tiny crustaceans will affect other creatures higher up the food chain — cod, seals and polar bears — which need fat sources in their diet.

Fishery scientists have concluded, «at least in the short term, the lengthening of the ice - free season presently observed in Arctic seas could result in improved recruitment and larger populations of Arctic cod.»

The book's author, H. Bruce Franklin, compares menhaden to the passenger pigeon and related to me recently how his research uncovered that populations were once so large that «the vanguard of the fish's annual migration would reach Cape Cod while the rearguard was still in Maine.»

With a population of approximately 45,000 people, the Town of Barnstable is the largest community on Massachusetts» Cape Cod.

Only an hour or two from Boston, the population of Cape Cod swells by more than 250 percent in the tourist - heavy months of July and August.

The population was 31,532 at the 2010 census, making Falmouth the second - largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable.