Sentences with phrase «fisheries commissions»

The group hosts planning workshops and provides technical assistance to local utilities, city councils, tribal fisheries commissions, and a menu of relevant state and the federal departments.

The skipjack population in this area is managed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and in many areas, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), which have put in place conservation measures to help prevent overfishing.

A status update of the striped bass stock hasn't been completed since 2011, said Mike Waine, a coordinator with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which helps to set fishing quotas for commercial operations to protect fish populations.

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Two years ago, a habitat management plan, commissioned by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, found that the populations were at best stable and probably declining.

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission conducts stock assessments of 23 key coastal fish stocks, and completed a major benchmark stock assessment for river herring in May 2012.

An important fish for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem is getting more protection under a new target set today at a meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC).

For decades, the fishery commission and a team of scientists and advocates across the public and private sectors have been developing measures to control sea lamprey populations.

A subcommittee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) agreed to the Japan - sponsored draft at a meeting last week in Fukuoka.

Biologists on a multi-state Fisheries Commission committee have found that warmer waters, disease and fishing have depleted lobster stocks, and they recently recommended a five - year ban on lobstering from Cape Cod to Virginia.

He attributes some of the success of Barents Sea cod stocks, by contrast, to a system in which scientists from either country «can provide a check» on each other's management decisions and fishing behaviors, since the Fisheries Commission formalizes a mechanism to share the resource.

This led to the implementation in 1976 of the Joint Fisheries Commission between Norway and the Soviet Union, which sets harvest control rules.

The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission voted Thursday to change the way large vessels trawl for shrimp in the Pamlico Sound.

• The Gray whale was delisted on the basis of a short letter from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, representing 14 commercial fishing groups and 19 tribes.

Meridian is facilitating a collaborative process with NOAA Fisheries and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to plan and convene the 2018 National Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Summit.

There are also a range of government bodies that represent Māori interests, such as the Ministry of Māori Development, the Māori Office Trust, the Waitangi Treaty Tribunal and the Waitangi Treaty Fisheries Commission.

The Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission or Te Ohu Kai Moana (TOKM) came about after an arrangement between the Crown and its Māori population between 1989 and 1992 to establish a settlement which provided the basis for Māori ownership for a proportion of New Zealand's commercial fishing industry.

In addition Māori interests are represented through other offices and commissions such as the Maori office trust, the Waitangi Treaty Tribunal and the Waitangi Fisheries Commission.

Not exact matches

Commission Regulation 665/2008 establishes the Data Collection Framework (DCF), a community framework for the collection, management and use of data in the fisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries Polifisheries sector and support for scientific advice regarding the Common Fisheries PoliFisheries Policy (CFP).

Under this regulation, the European Commission requires Member States to collect data on biological and economic aspects of many European fisheries and relate fisheries sectors.

The UK is actively engaged with the European Commission's current activities to reform the Common Fisheries Policy, which will include consideration of the quota and fisheries access managementFisheries Policy, which will include consideration of the quota and fisheries access managementfisheries access management systems.

«Under the Fisheries Sector Infrastructural Development Programme, the Ministry of Fisheries will commence the development of three landing sites at Winneba, Mumford and Axim; rehabilitate three public hatcheries at Vea, Sankana and Dormaa - Ahenkro; rehabilitate three fish health laboratories at Takoradi, Koforidua and Kumasi; complete and commission the Anomabo Fisheries College; and refurbish the Tema Boat Yard to increase productivity of fisher folk,» he added.

Any decision will have to be agreed on by the European Parliament, the commission, and member states, in this case represented by their fisheries ministers.

The vote is just the first step in negotiations with the European Commission and member states over the large package of fisheries reforms.

But many of the actual decisions on fisheries are taken at the management organizations» individual meetings — such as that of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, which met on 4 - 8 July in La Jolla.

Pressure to ban lead - based ammunition in the U.S. intensified last year with the release of a report on threats to wildlife commissioned by The Wilderness Society and the American Fisheries Society.

The next year, Paul Christman, a fisheries biologist with the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, found proof that Atlantic salmon were spawning: He located six new gravel nests sheltering the bright red eggs of the Atlantic salmon as far as 18 miles upstream.

The study, by scientists at WHOI, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and NOAA Fisheries, was published online May 21 in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

The Commission, established in 1982 and tasked with regulating the fisheries governed by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty (which protects all the territory below 60 degrees south latitude and oceans south of the Polar Front), had a meeting of the Ecosystem Monitoring and Management working group in Moscow in July.

«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.

Interest in the crop is such that the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has commissioned ADAS to carry out a six - year trial at a cost of # 45 000 in the first year.

They do that very efficiently,» says John Dettmers, director of fisheries management at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

«If you want to take deep - sea fish, you have to do it in a sustainable manner,» says Oliver Drewes, a commission spokesperson for maritime affairs and fisheries.

The commission's proposal is part of a larger effort to improve the management and health of European fisheries.

In 2008, MSC commissioned DNA testing of three certified fisheries: Alaskan salmon, Alaskan pollock, and toothfish from South Georgia.

The animal house and animal facilities at the CNB - CSIC have been registered at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, regarding the use of animals in experimentation, with nº 28079 -29-A; and at the Ministry for the Environment, through the National Commission on Biosafety, regarding the experiments with genetically modified mice (both transgenic and knockout) under risk type II, with nº A / ES / 03 / I - 5.

When I wrote recently about the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's decision to begin trapping cats at the Barnett Access on the Little Red River, I suggested that AGFC fisheries biologist Tom Bly had «been drinking TNR opponents» Kool - Aid.»

National Marine Fisheries Service Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Hubbs Sea World Research Institute Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Key management partners include but are not limited to: Channel Islands National Park NOAA Office of Law Enforcement, Southwest Division NOAA Fisheries Service, West Coast Region California Natural Resources Agency California Department of Fish and Game California State Lands Commission

Channel Islands National Park NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, West Coast Region California Natural Resources Agency California Department of Fish and Wildlife California State Lands Commission The Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz Island

William T. Hogarth, the outgoing chairman of the International Whaling Commission and a former senior American fisheries official, said something knowingly provocative to Richard Black of the BBC as the latest international talks on whale management ended:

Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to manage harvests of tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for bluefin tuna that conservation groups and United States fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.

There have been shifts in policies, including the decision in September by the European Commission to close the purse seine fishery in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Americans say they want healthy seafood, clean beaches, stable fisheries, abundant wildlife and vibrant coastal communities (all identified by Americans to the Pew Oceans Commission during our hearings around the nation).

Mr. Takebe, the agriculture minister, approvingly noted that «competition between whales and fisheries» is to be studied by the fisheries committee of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, though he did not mention that the panel's head is a colleague, Masayuki Komatsu, Japan's deputy delegate to the International Whaling Commission.

Managing krill fisheries is crucial, executive secretary of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Denzil Miller told the New York Times in 2005.

2008 On June 10, the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Subcommittee Chair Madeleine Bordallo (D - GU), holds an oversight hearing on the 60th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Santiago, Chile from June 23 to June 27, 2008.

Well before moving to the state of Alaska in 2014, Dr. Baker was focusing on marine Arctic issues for entities such as the Alaska Arctic Policy Commission, Arctic Council, Inuit Circumpolar Council, U.S. Department of State and the Alaska Regional office of the National Marine Fisheries Service.