Sentences with phrase «cyanide fishing in»

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.

Not exact matches

He despised the new sort, the gangs who worked the big river in low - water summer conditions, driving up from the industrial cities of south Wales, putting on scuba suits to drive salmon and sea - run trout into fixed trammel nets, or using cyanide bombs to suffocate the fish and send them drifting downstream to a collection point.

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 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 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..

But after a fish, human or other organism is exposed to the toxin, it will excrete a cyanide metabolite, thiocyanate, in its urine.

Recently, Downs and Rene Umberger, director of the nonprofit organization For the Fishes, wanted to get an idea of how many fish sold in pet stores were caught with cyanide.

And Downs suspects that cyanide use for the fish in his study may be higher than he and his colleague are now reporting.

But in others, there aren't enough laws or enforcers to prevent disturbing, destructive practices, such as fishing with explosives or cyanide.

Detecting the illegal use of cyanide in fishing is being studied.

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

Humans have indeed tipped the balance in favor of COTS and in addition to destructive over fishing with dynamite and cyanide, those causes of coral death are the only factors we can remedy.