Sentences with phrase «fish habitat»

In some communities I've seen them used as fish habitat in lakes, which is green enough.

But fishing industry officials are urging them to reject it, noting that regulators are already under a federal court order to produce comprehensive regional plans for protecting fish habitat.

The programs centered around the dumping of outdated military tanks into coastal waters with the intent of creating artificial reefs as well as fish habitats.

Some steel mesh (chicken wire) is attached to some parts of the structure to provide fish habitats.

Maintaining fish habitat and promoting species diversity in each lake will create better fishing on a consistent basis.

Today we are increasing our commitment to protect even more sensitive fish habitat in the future.

Healthy fish habitat is important for fish and for the people and businesses that depend on them.

Based on the available information, the EPA in 2014 determined the mine would result in a complete and irreversible loss of fish habitats in some areas of the bay.

This expansive network of wetlands, lagoon, and dunes is being restored by increasing the capacity of the creek, removing sediment from the creek bed, and improving fish habitat in the tidal lagoon.

A recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Montana Trout Unlimited (MTU) found that global warming is shrinking cold - water fish habitat, threatening the trout and other fish that depend upon it.

In 1996, lawmakers passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which called for an immediate stop to overfishing, a reduction of bycatch — fish that are caught inadvertently — and protection of essential fish habitats.

Last week, a former fisheries official leaked documents suggesting that the government wants to reword its Fisheries Act so that it no longer prohibits activity that harms fish habitat.

Completed in 2013, the project restored fish habitat along a 1,000 foot stretch of the stream.

As a result, the protection for fish habitat generally, found in subsection 35 (1), will be replaced by a narrower prohibition on «any work, undertaking or activity that results in serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or Aboriginal fishery, or to fish that support such a fishery.»

Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish habitat permits and other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.

Commonwealth environmental water will contribute to increased barrage flows between March and June 2014 to support improvements in water quality in the River Murray channel, aquatic vegetation, macroinvertebrates, waterbird and fish habitat within the Coorong and Lower lakes, and contribute to flows to support an open Murray Mouth.

«Beavers, they're really good at making a mess of a system, and it's that messiness that's exactly what we're looking for, by creating more complex fish habitat.»

«The hurdles for behavioral changes are far lower than the hurdles for life and death,» said Bigford, who worked with fish habitats at NOAA for more than three decades.

The new analysis acknowledges that other ecosystems, such as coral reefs and kelp forests, provide valuable storm and erosion protection, key fish habitat and recreation opportunities, and thus deserve protection.

Coastal oceans affected by suspended sediment tend to overlap critical fish habitats and nurseries.

«It's one of the most extreme fish habitats I've ever seen in nature.»

His thesis researched coral dwelling fish habitat selection in relation to corals characteristics and in response to other fish inhabiting the corals.

«Urban stormwater runoff carries a complex mixture of chemicals into fish habitats,» said McIntyre, who is based at the WSU Research and Extension Center in Puyallup, Wash. «We have seen that stormwater runoff can kill adult coho salmon in urban creeks, and we know that it can cause defects in the hearts of developing fish.»

This study highlights the potential importance of considering water chemistry and microbiology when constructing artificial fish habitats — and the team hopes that the information will provide a valuable contribution to the continued survival of the Devils Hole Pupfish in captivity.

More than a century of landscape modifications for agriculture, recreation, and construction had filled the creek bed with sediment, altering fish habitat in the tidal lagoon.

Grows new corals and provides new fish habitats, as well as anti erosion reefs to break the waves energy, these wave breakers stop the erosions and help us to get our beaches back!

Catalina Island's many coves and reefs provide an amazing fishing habitat.

An ecoroof significantly decreases stormwater runoff, saves energy, reduces pollution and erosion, and helps preserve fish habitat.

Hydroelectric dams planned for the tropical rivers of Mekong, Amazon and Congo could destroy local fish habitats and cause human populations to relocate, too.

Since 2001, nearly 5,600 barriers have been removed, opening up 3,800 miles of historic fish habitat.

Named Houseboat H, the high - end floating dwelling features significant environmentally - friendly design, including a burgeoning fish habitat.

Conservation groups and native tribes have proposed broad changes to water use in the Klamath Basin, primarily focused on the removal of those four hydropower dams to expand fish habitat.

But the Sierra Club has actively lobbied against large - scale hydropower because the plants could disrupt fish habitats.

«Until recently, it was widely assumed that coral would bleach and die off worldwide as the oceans warm due to climate change,» explained Jessica Carilli, a coral researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, «this would have very serious consequences, as loss of live coral — already observed in parts of the world — directly reduces fish habitats and the shoreline protection reefs provide from storms.»

For example, under BC's Riparian Areas Regulation (or RAR), development should be set back from fish bearing streams and lakes, to ensure that no harm to fish habitat results.

development being authorized in close proximity to fish habitat despite government staff believing it will impact fish habit.

«The previous act covered protection of fish habitat wherever they occur throughout Canada whether in salt water or fresh water.

Suddenly, the Fisheries Act no longer protected fish habitat; the NEB Act exempted the National Energy Board, when reviewing pipeline applications, from any duty to minimize impacts on species at risk under the Species At Risk Act; and the decision - maker for the project changed from the Joint Review Panel to the government itself, where the «record» of the decision could be held secret as a cabinet confidence.

The more we learn through this project, the better positioned forest managers will be to help maintain fisher habitat.»

However, we support stream restoration projects that improve fish habitat and access by fish to areas blocked by artificial structures such as undersized road culverts and obsolete dams.

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On this last point, the BC Court of Appeal has ruled that government does not have the power under the RAR to intervene to prohibit development where the hired professional has authorized it, even when they believe that the development will harm fish habitat.