Sentences with phrase «fisheries around»

Fisheries around the world have suffered from similar histories of collapse caused by irrational exploitation encouraged by pricing based on greed and thin air.

The Patagonian toothfish (often sold as Chilean sea bass) fisheries around Crozet, Prince Edward and Marion Islands were fished to commercial extinction in just two years.

Of course, many fisheries around the world remain in crisis, particularly the bluefin tuna, a longtime focus of Dr. Safina.

Ensure sustainable use of the fisheries around Ascension Island (Ratcliffe 1999).

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

Overfishing is a concern in many fisheries around the world with negative impacts on habitats and causes water pollution.

As sea lice became a problem in fisheries around the world, an unfortunately common solution was employed: pesticides.

Reefs also provide protection from storm surge and for crucial fisheries around the globe.

Their numbers in fisheries around the US and Europe have fallen by an average of 72 per cent.

As part of the study, UBC researchers created a database that examines the long - term vulnerability of marine species that are important to fisheries around the world.

If the trends continue, he reported, all fisheries around the globe will collapse by 2048.

Today, numerous industrial and artisanal tuna fisheries around the world exploit this «aggregating phenomenon.»

These principles could be applied to fisheries around the world, and many small fishing communities already diversify naturally, the authors explained.

Steve Simpson at the University of Bristol, UK, looked at 25,612 trawls in fisheries around the UK and in the North Sea between 1980 and 2008.

They said «rights - based» management such as catch shares resolves «many of the problems associated with the competitive race to fish experienced in fisheries around the world.»

Not exact matches

In a move that stunned and appalled scientists around the world the Harper government laid off as many as 40 scientists associated with the legendary program working out the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Winnipeg's office.

Fisheries and aquaculture are important sources of food, nutrition, income and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Known as the «silver darlings», North Sea herring is one of the most sustainable types of fish around and carries the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel for the responsible way the fishery is managed.

The relentless onslaught of cheap imported produce onto the Australian market has shown no signs of abating, with a new report from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) indicating that processed fruit and vegetables contributed the majority of food imports between 2010 and 2012, a figure of around 15 per cent.

Sector Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Sherry Hanny Ayitey, who announced this to Radiogold90.5.com, said the Shrimps farm project would be a flagship programme of the John Mahama - led administration to turn around the fortunes of the fisherieFisheries and Aquaculture Development, Sherry Hanny Ayitey, who announced this to Radiogold90.5.com, said the Shrimps farm project would be a flagship programme of the John Mahama - led administration to turn around the fortunes of the fisheriesfisheries sector.

The notorious sea creature shipped around by ballast waters devastated Black Sea fisheries in the 1990s.

Kevin Fitzsimmons, a fisheries biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who has consulted with tilapia farms around the world, says it's unlikely but possible, «especially if [MT] was mishandled or accidentally released.»

ICCAT, one of many regional fishery management organizations around the world, used a different tool to rebuild Atlantic swordfish populations (pdf) last September — namely, quotas.

As she juggles family life with interviews with the world's leading jellyfish researchers, Berwald also documents her travels to places around the globe where jellyfish and humans intersect, such as Israel's coral reefs and Japan's fisheries.

Around Cape Cod, a similar array will monitor the ecosystems crucial to local fisheries for up to five years, after which the moorings will be moved to study other coastal ecosystems, including the Gulf of Mexico.

In an article in the March issue of the journal Fisheries, ecologists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and colleagues from around the world explore ways to protect fish from the phenomenon, known as barotrauma.

«Hydropower is a tremendous resource, often available in areas far from other sources of power, and critical to the future of many people around the globe,» said Richard Brown, a senior research scientist at PNNL and the lead author of the Fisheries paper.

Anderson and 26 co-authors at the World Bank and other universities and organizations around the world chose 61 fisheries as initial case studies to build the assessment tool.

In the 1980s, commercial fishers from around the world flocked to the Bering Sea between U.S. and Russian territory, which was effectively a «doughnut hole» without any fisheries regulations.

These methods «contribute only around one per cent of the EU's total catch, yet suck up millions of euros in subsidies, destroy large areas of fragile sea - floor and overfish many deep - sea species,» Greenpeace fisheries expert Saskia Richartz said in the statement.

A new study has found that 42 countries or territories around the world permit the harvest of marine turtles — and estimates that more than 42,000 turtles are caught each year by these fisheries.

Cashion spent a year tallying up fishery catches around the world from 1950 to 2010, figuring out who caught which species and where the fish went after it was taken out of the sea.

With improved technologies and a reduction in sea ice around Antarctica, Hemmings, Ainley and many other experts believe its fisheries will be further threatened without policy changes.

Cashion is a researcher for the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecFisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecfisheries on marine ecosystems.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries found the turtle around 6 p.m. last night in heavy oil mousse, 33 nautical miles offshore.

Modelling studies suggest that around Llyn Brianne reductions of between 30 and 50 per cent in the acidity of rainfall will be necessary to prevent further acidification of soils and streams and only a 60 to 90 per cent reduction would allow recovery of fisheries, river invertebrates and fishing birds such as dippers.

«Shad are continuing a downward trend that began around 2000,» says Michael Hendricks, a fisheries biologist who leads the Anadromous Fish Restoration Unit at the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

The work is detailed in a paper in Nature Communications by fisheries researchers Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and it builds on a decade - long project that has drawn in hundreds of researchers from around the world.

However, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food wants to study the Soviet dump to improve understanding of the behaviour of radionuclides around a disposal site.

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.

The team compiled four decades of data from research vessel surveys of fish and invertebrates conducted around the continental shelves of North America by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).

In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

«Increasing demand for seafood has contributed to a global fisheries crisis, with consequences for marine ecosystems around the world,» Österblom adds.

Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on fish and fisheries in the tropics.

Daniel Pauly, the study's lead author and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us at the Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, explains that as fish grow into adulthood their demand for oxygen increases because their body mass becomes larger.

Originally from Liverpool, Martin first came to the Falklands as a fisheries observer in 1990, but left after a year to undertake a PhD investigating the ecology of squid around the Irish Coast.

Krill is central to the ecosystem around South Georgia, feeding numerous colonies of marine mammals, seabirds and penguins, as well as sustaining plentiful fisheries within South Georgia waters.

A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches.

Abstract: Diverse and abundant, marine invertebrates have essential roles in ocean ecosystems and provide vital food and export resources for millions of people around the world through small - scale artisanal to large - scale commercial fisheries.

Webster examines how fisheries are evolving both politically and economically around the globe.