Sentences with phrase «fishery experts»

Many biologists and fisheries experts say it's vital to leave the region alone because big, poorly - understood ecosystem shifts are under way.

«The shift is already happening, we've been measuring it for the last 20 years,» said Daniel Pauly, a renowned fisheries expert at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

That's the reaction of fisheries expert Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) when PR consultant Harriet Chetwode - Talbot (Emily Blunt) tells him that billionaire Sheikh Muhammad (a wonderful Amr Waked) wants to bring fly - fishing to the desert — damn the cost!

After years of overfishing and rampant dam - building, a senior fisheries expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spoken out against the ecological threats facing the Yangtze River by calling for a 10 - year fishing moratorium and joining environmentalists in decrying the proposed Xiaonanhai Dam.

In Colorado, for instance, state and federal fisheries experts were recently spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year over five years to restore populations of a threatened subspecies of trout, the greenback cutthroat.

According to American fisheries expert Elliott Norse, studies have shown that up to 50 - 80 per cent of the catch in shrimp trawl fisheries is discarded as trash, and estimates suggest it is as high as 19 million tonnes, or up to 20 per cent of the world's entire sea fish catch (Marine Biological Diversity: A Strategy for Building Conservation into Decision Making, edited by Elliott Norse, Island Press, 1993).

«Our strategy was to develop a rapid assessment instrument that would organize the knowledge of local fishery experts to help us understand how harvesters and processors are performing economically and how the fishery is supporting its community.

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.

The sardine collapse puzzled fisheries experts.

As global fish stocks continue sinking to alarmingly low levels, a joint study by marine fisheries experts from within and outside of China concluded that the country's most recent fisheries conservation plan can achieve a true paradigm shift in marine fisheries management — but only if the Chinese government embraces major institutional reform.

«There are a lot of redundant layers of strict confinement,» says Virginia Tech fisheries expert Eric Hallerman.

In a paper published Thursday in Science, a Worm - led team of fisheries experts updated those findings, providing the most comprehensive analysis to date of global fisheries.

With the new report, published by the non-profit organization maribus gGmbH, again with support from the magazine mare, the International Ocean Institute and the Cluster of Excellence «The Future Ocean», scientists from Kiel together with other leading international fisheries experts have produced one of the most comprehensive investigations into the state of worldwide fisheries.

Fish supplies more than 3 billion people with at least 15 percent of their average animal protein intake, says Richard Grainger, senior FAO fisheries expert.

It's really pretty hard to put a positive spin on what's happening down in the Gulf of Mexico, or really even see a good outcome, but in an interesting interview on the potential effects of the spill over at OnEarth fisheries expert Daniel Pauly from the University of British Columbia points out one small thing that may make cleaning up this spill easier than the iconic Exxon Valdez: WATCH VIDEO: Planet 100 - How to Clean An Oil Spill?

Under the unit's plan, the Scottish Office would lose its source of advice on agriculture, and MAFF would have no fisheries experts.

Fisheries experts have long suspected that the catches reported by China to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome are too low.

To do this, our research partners and fishery experts have manually classified thousands of vessel tracks as training data to «teach» our algorithms what fishing looks like.

UK cod collapse due to overfishing and political failure, says fisheries expert.

Another study authored by Daniel Pauly, a fisheries expert at UBC, has found that fisheries catches in some tropical island countries may be up to 17 times higher than officially reported, writes IPS's Stephen Leahy.