Sentences with phrase «cyanide fishing»

Aside from possible effects on human health, cyanide fishing inflicts damage on the coral reefs where it is employed, as the poison kills the reefs and many of the life - forms that rely on them

An agreement was concluded between the fishermen, defining the legal techniques of fishing, limited to certain authorized zones, with the purpose of putting an end to dynamite and cyanide fishing practices.

Sadly, the most pristine reefs, far from the usual threats of sedimentation, coral mining and coastal development, are the primary target for cyanide fishing operations.»

But perhaps the greater damage inflicted by cyanide fishing is to the coral reefs where it is employed, as cyanide kills the reefs and also many of the life forms that rely on them.

Dear EarthTalk: I heard of a practice called cyanide fishing, which is used mostly to collect aquarium specimens, but I understand it is also used to catch fish we eat.

The island and surrounding coast of mainland Bali has been subject to dynamite and cyanide fishing in the past, but an agreement was struck with local fishermen around 10 years ago, granting them exclusive rights to the business of transferring tourists to the island.

And the economic crises that crippled the economies of southeast Asia in the 1990s also set in motion a rapid uptick in environmentally damaging pursuits such as illegal logging and cyanide fishing, according to the World Bank.

«As stocks in one country are depleted, the trade moves on to new frontiers, and cyanide fishing is now confirmed or suspected in countries stretching from the central Pacific to the shores of East Africa.

«Despite the fact that cyanide fishing is nominally illegal in virtually all Indo - Pacific countries, the high premium paid for live reef fish, weak enforcement capacities, and frequent corruption have spread the use of the poison across the entire region — home o the vast majority of the planet's coral reefs,» reports WRI.

Cyanide fishing, whereby divers crush cyanide tablets into plastic squirt bottles of sea water and puff the solution to stun and capture live coral reef fish, is widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia despite being illegal in most countries of the region.

For the aquarium trade, cyanide fishing is «cheap and easy to do,» says Craig Downs, executive director of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in Clifford, Va..

The Gili Islands, whilst now safe from destructive fishing methods such as dynamite and cyanide fishing, still are battling with many threats that affect our beautiful marine ecosystem.

Unfortunately, only 6 % of these reefs are healthy; Destruction comes mainly from human activity: dynamite and cyanide fishing, pollution, global warming, over exploitation and environmentally - unfriendly tourism, and more...

At that time there was a lot of dynamite and cyanide fishing, destroying all the coral and killing the aquatic life inhabiting the reefs.

The reefs survived the 1992 disaster, but years of dynamite and cyanide fishing have destroyed what mother nature couldn't.