Sentences with phrase «fisheries in»

The native title holders would not obtain any particular rights in relation to the introduction of any new law for the management of the fisheries in the area but they would have a right to be notified and to comment on the grant of a commercial fishing licence.

[36] Altman, J.C., Arthur W.S., and Bek H.J., Indigenous participation in commercial fisheries in Torres Strait: A preliminary discussion, Discussion Paper 73/1994, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, p1.

The Agency claimed that these conditions were necessary for the protection of salmon fisheries in the River Wye, a Special Area of Conservation.

Adaptation to fisheries in areas prone to enhanced flooding in North East and Central Region through adaptive and diversified fish culture practices.

Compensation for the moratoria will go to projects geared toward redirecting commercial netsmen to alternative sustainable fisheries in Greenlands's inshore fishing industry.

The Hudson River was one of the most polluted waterways in the 1960's, and you couldn't eat the fish that swam there; now you can eat the fish, and it's one of the most productive fisheries in the Northeast.

Rainer Froese, a fisheries biologist, and Alexander Proelß, an expert on public law, looked at data on major fisheries in the North Atlantic.

According to a new study coming from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, two of the most important recreational fisheries in Southern California have collapsed — barred sand bass and kelp bass.

Did you know that the Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body in the world, and supports some of the largest fisheries in the world?

«If the Asian carp make it to Lake Michigan, the damage to fisheries in the lakes and tributaries will be profound and irreversible.»

The aid money some of these groups funnel to fisheries in developing countries often ends up benefiting large commercial - scale fisheries, the study also found.

The hypoxic zone forms in the middle of the most important commercial and recreational fisheries in the coterminous United States and could threaten the economy of this region of the Gulf.

The divergent climate states were first discerned in arctic fisheries in 1996 but have since been discovered in changing abundances of anchovies and sardines in Monterey Bay (having given rise to John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row) and in Australian multi-decadal rainfall trends.

We just have to commit to consistently implementing these tools in fisheries in U.S. waters and around the world to promote sustainable fisheries with reduced bycatch.»

For example, the Pacific - Arctic Gateway through the Bering Strait would be an ideal monitoring area because of increased heat and freshwater flow, increased marine mammal migration, declining sea ice cover, increased oil and gas exploration, exploratory fisheries in the last decade, and flow of pollutants, especially persistent organic pollutants largely from Asia.

Science Alert: Ocean warming has already affected global fisheries in the past four decades, a new international study has found, driving up the proportion of warm - water fish being caught and posing a threat to food security worldwide.

She's highlighted the damage BP's oil spill did to coral reefs, mangrove forests and sea grasses, and pointed out that these habitats are critical for healthy commercial and recreational fisheries in the Gulf.

-- Freshwater fisheries in small rivers and lakes, in regions with larger temperature and precipitation change

From the establishment of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson to the formation of the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the 1870s, much of America's scientific heritage is rooted in NOAA.

In 2007, legislative reauthorization introduced substantial changes to the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the primary federal law that governs conservation of fisheries in U.S. federal waters.

Yet the authors marshal clear examples of ecological disasters that have already had serious effects on human society: the collapse of cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, for instance, and the outbreaks of mountain pine beetles that are devastating forests in the West.

This summer, the Obama Administration is expected to issue new bluefin tuna regulations for U.S. fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

While these dead zones are often caused by fertilizer runoff currently, it seems the decreasing ability of the oceans to hold dissolved oxygen with continued warming will increasingly become a problem for marine ecosystems and fisheries in the coming decades.

30 years of temperature increase, have been partly responsible for boosting high latitude fisheries in the North Pacific and North Atlantic.

The application of meta - analysis to agriculture, forestry and fisheries in order to identify trends and consistent findings across large numbers of studies has revealed important new information since the TAR, especially on the direct effects of atmospheric CO2 on crop and forest productivity (e.g., Ainsworth and Long, 2005) and fisheries (Allison et al., 2005).

Total environment of change: Impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska

El Niño, the giant patch of unusually warm water, can persist for several years, disrupting fisheries in the eastern Pacific, producing sustained rough weather along the West Coast of the United States and causing harsh droughts in places like Indonesia, which several years ago battled enormous wildfires resulting from El Niño.

Alaskan River Riches Southeast Alaska has one of the healthiest salmon fisheries in the world, thanks to strict regulation and bountiful wild rivers for fish to spawn.

For Alaska pollock, the white fish primarily used in fish - sticks and one of the most economically valuable fisheries in the world, climate change is a one - two punch.

But global fisheries are facing a number of challenges: changes in markets, demographics, and over-exploitation will significantly impact global fisheries in the near future, while climate change is expected to pose a major challenge over the longer term.

Below is an infographic summarizing the report, and naming the nine worst — as in most wasteful — fisheries in America.

I just re-read the short section on world fisheries in Bjorn Lomborg's Skeptical Environmentalist, and noted that the level of analysis shown there is low enough to cast doubt on the rest of the book.

Significant changes in the circulation of the ocean could likewise impact fisheries in the United States that can be devastated by warming waters, thereby affecting livelihood and food source.

Courtney Carothers is an associate professor of fisheries in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

With a rise in annual global temperature (e.g. of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 °C) fisheries in North West Africa and the East African lakes are shown to be impacted (see ECF and Potsdam Institute, 2004; Warren et al., 2006).

Together with ADESO and with the guidance of her mother, Degan is currently leading a program that restores fisheries in Somalia's coast by training communities in sustainable fishing practices, revitalizing critical habitat such as mangroves and coral reefs, and developing community - led responses to illegal fishing.

Refuting lower - resolution results, high - resolution ocean modelling has predicted climate change will have little impact on western Pacific tuna fisheries in the 2060s.

Tuna fisheries in the warm pool are vital to many Pacific Island nations.

«The collapse of fisheries in much of the world would be a sideshow.»

Skipjack tuna fisheries in the western Pacific warm pool will not be drastically impacted by climate change in the next 50 years, according to projections with an ocean model that divides the ocean into a high - resolution 10 km grid.

«This is the equivalent of three to five times the annual harvest of marine capture fisheries in the world.»

This used to be one of the best herring fisheries in our state now there is nothing.

A well - studied example is the oxygen minimum zone that develops off the west coast of South America and is generally thought to be due to the high nutrient inputs and the very productive fisheries in the region; in addition in this region the bottom waters tend to stay oxygenates — the zone develops in the mid-ocean depths.

More fisheries are relying on smaller prey fish such as anchoveta - with more than 10.7 million metric tons pulled in, depriving seabirds and other marine animals of food (FAO «Ten Biggest Fisheries in the World» 2006) It seems that humanity's

The study also highlighted information gaps that are blocking further assessments of impacts, and found that bycatch rates in small - scale fisheries in nearshore areas rival those of large - scale fisheries in the open ocean....

Southeast Asia is home to the biggest fisheries in the world for mantas and so we're trying to figure out connectivity, where they are, how close they are to fisheries and what we can do about it.

The Gowla is one of the best Sea Trout Fisheries in the West of Ireland, and consists of two chains of Loughs, which are drained by the Owengowla River.

ReefCI is working with the department of Fisheries in Belize to help protect the marine life and sustain fish stock and fishing.

Before the OPC, Paige worked as a Research Fellow with the Sustainable Fisheries Group at UC Santa Barbara, where she served as the Lead Consultant on a markets project to facilitate the sustainable management of small - scale fisheries in the developing tropics.

A registered non-profit organisation, Sharklife addresses the alarming exploitation of both shark populations and ocean fisheries in South African waters.