Sentences with phrase «fishery minister»
A "fishery minister" is a government official responsible for overseeing and managing the fishing industry in a country. They make decisions and set policies to ensure sustainable fishing practices, protect fish stocks, and promote the well-being of fishermen and the fishing community. Full definition
Although the federal government has shown no inclination to become involved in any effort to save ELA, Broten says that she has had «very productive» talks with Federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield.
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One Shark Hazard Committee member emphasized that a special exemption from the law is required by Fisheries Minister Norman Moore to pursue the recommended shark murdering method.
Last year, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea assured reporters her department was doing everything it could to help fisheries get certified, saying, «the cost of not doing it would be, well, we can't even talk about that.»
And Japanese fisheries minister Masami Tanabu remarked this month that «if we protect them too much, the oceans will eventually be full of whales».
However, Mr. Aquinas Quansah who is also a former Fisheries Minister alleged that «If it were Chairman Wontumi who found himself in this situation, he would be told to go and correct the wrongs and come back, why can't same thing be done for Ibrahim Mahama».
Feb. 14, 2014: Federal Court finds federal environment and fisheries ministers broke the law by failing to enforce Species at Risk Act in a lawsuit brought in relation to pipeline route.
During the referendum campaign the then fisheries minister George Eustice said those crucial laws — which protect so much of the natural world - were so rigid they were «spirit crushing» and would go.
Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw was hit in the face with animal innards at a protest against the hunting ban yesterday.
Fisheries minister Jonathan Shaw welcomed the EU's support for UK proposals as a «fair deal» for the UK.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, fisheries minister Jonathon Shaw said it was an «absolute waste» to throw good quality fish back into the seat to die and confirmed the government will be pushing for an increase to its quota.
The measures are up for comment by the European Union's fisheries ministers in April, after which they would head in the direction of being enacted as national legislation.
AS THE world's fisheries ministers promised tough action to conserve the oceans» fast - diminishing fish stocks last week, researchers were providing still more evidence of a crisis that threatens everything from plankton to porpoises.
Fisheries minister John Crosbie said it was the only way to save the stock.
A positive sign also comes from the recent Declaration on the sustainability of Mediterranean fisheries signed by 15 fisheries ministers of riparian countries (MedFish4Ever).
When Japan announced its scientific whaling program in 1987, Japanese Fisheries Minister Moriyoshi Sato told its citizens, «The government will do its utmost to find ways to maintain the nation's whaling in the form of research or other forms.»
Jim Anderton, New Zealand Fisheries Minister, says that the country would support a global moratorium on bottom - trawling, but only if the international community followed suit.
According to Israel21c, a series of panels and discussions integrated some of the world's leading international desertification experts and included Ghana Fisheries Minister Gladys Asmah, Jordanian Director General of Sustainable Development Dr. Khaled Nassar and India's Dr. Gurbachan Singh, Director of the country's Central Soil Salinity Research Institute.
Vice fisheries minister Masahiko Yamada has already hinted Japan will opt out of a ban by taking a so - called «reservation,» as it has done on whale species in the past.
However, in a remarkable volte - face last week, the country's fisheries minister indicated it may cease this year's commercial hunt.
Probably not, but that's not stopping the Western Australia Fisheries Minister from trying to make it so.
(See, for example, the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, and former Conservative Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon.)
Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield and Ted Menzies, the Minister of State for Finance, have asked to be kept out of cabinet, while former Public Safety minister Vic Toews has resigned and Environment Minister Peter Kent has signalled he expects to be frozen out.
Fisheries minister Norman Moore has imposed new restrictions on the rock lobster industry in a bid to halve the annual harvest from its long - term average of 11,000 tonnes to 5,500 tonnes.
Fisheries Minister Keith Colwell says the fish farm is owned by New Brunswick - based Cooke Aquaculture, which reported the damage last Wednesday after a massive storm.
Employment Minister, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Fisheries Minister, Afoley Quaye, Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid, Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh all came up as part of the worse performing Ministers in the Akufo - Addo government.
When quizzed on her role in the scandal by Citi News, the Fisheries Minister, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, said the NPA was in a better position to act on the widespread diversion of premix fuel, because her Ministry did not have a tracking system to identify culprits.
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.
Lisbeth Berg - Hansen, the country's fisheries minister, announced on Friday that Norwegian whalers would be allowed to catch 1286 of the marine mammals in 2010 — up from 885 this year.
The Parliament must also negotiate the legislation with member states, and fisheries ministers haven't even started discussing the issue.
In a letter to Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield and Environment Minister Peter Kent, Schindler says the federal Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario would be ideal for studying specific chemical impacts on fish in the wild.