Sentences with phrase «fishing pressure»

The explosive growth of the Asian middle class has driven extraordinary fishing pressure on sharks — which are slow to mature and reproduce.

It wants the total allowable catch reduced to a level providing an 80 % probability of stocks recovering and demands other steps to reduce fishing pressure.

Marine life is superb thanks to the lack of fishing pressure with angelfish, snapper, parrotfish, seahorses, and frogfish, kingfish, turtles and all in exceptional numbers.

Like most oceanic islands, the Galápagos have a history of increasing fishing pressure dating back to European whalers, and culminating in recent news of the Ecuadorian government seizing a Chinese fishing vessel with more than 6,000 sharks taken from protected waters around the islands.

This species has been under intense fishing pressure in recent years from longline fishing.

Fishes can rebound when fishing pressure is removed, just as Maine haddock and Washington State coho salmon both have.

«Simply stated, fish biomass in coral reefs is being reduced by fishing pressure.

The MSC, however, disagrees: it claims «there is general agreement that commercial fishing pressure is not the cause» of recent poor runs.

Approximately 4,500 people live in adjacent communities, with additional fishing pressure stemming from poachers.

Marine migrants, on the other hand, are better able to maneuver around barriers or to skirt fishing pressures.

The purpose was to reduce competitive fishing pressure on overfished stocks.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

Although sardines have been subject to limited fishing pressure, anchovies were much more lightly fished prior to 2013; yet both populations have declined.

Opening up the pink urchin to fishing could help relieve fishing pressure on other species, the researchers say.

By knowing where fishing activities are more intensive, it is possible for example to assess the impacts from trawling on the seabed floor and derive the indicators on fishing pressure envisaged by the Maritime Strategy Framework Directive.

But whale sharks can not replenish their numbers under heavy fishing pressure because of the species» long life span, slow reproductive rate, naturally low abundance, and highly migratory nature.

«But there is too much fishing pressure on a lot of them.

What may happen to cephalopod populations in the future is difficult to predict, particularly if fishing pressure continues to increase.

Paper co-authors Abel Valdivia at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco and Courtney Cox at Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida, surveyed 143 fish species at 110 sites across 43 Caribbean coral reefs that varied in the amount of fishing pressure sustained — ranging from marine preserves that banned all fishing to heavily fished reefs where large predator fish are almost gone.

«In most cases, when you reduce fishing pressure enough, the stock rebounds.

Advantages of overnight fishing include fishing locations that receive little fishing pressure, more fishing time including times during peak morning and afternoon hours, and a huge selection of fishing areas to choose from.

While fishing pressure has made huge changes, these presumably are somewhat reversible if we let nature «rest»; in contrast, the mixing of species (invasive species, fish farming, etc.) might seem to lead to more one - way trajectories?

With unique and threatened marine habitats set aside for the future, the state's fish and wildlife are more likely to withstand assaults over time, like fishing pressure and climate change.

When fishing pressure is high, the fish evolve to reproduce when they are younger and smaller, and thus tend to have fewer, smaller offspring.

«The collapse may be the result of fishing pressure and the overexploitation of the species due to their natural reproductive behaviors.»

NOAA researchers, in a study published last month, said reduced fishing pressure — not a warmer Atlantic — is the reason more fluke are found further north.

This fertility encourages Brazilian ichthyologists to believe that no matter what the fishing pressure the dourado will survive.

The reason was that there was no fishing pressure on the top predators because people stopped fishing after the spill.

From the 1970s to 1990s, the population dropped by 80 percent, and similar to other exploited species the fish have started to aggregate in smaller regions of the sea, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure.

Increasing aquaculture production can relieve wild fish stocks; however this positive effect will probably be overwhelmed by a greater demand and technological progress in the fishing industry — both increasing the fishing pressure on wild stocks.

Targeted removal is the only management strategy that seems to help, and many hope to establish a food fishery to increase the fishing pressure on these ravenous predators.

The team developed a computer simulation model of the North Sea marine ecosystem and used it to investigate the effects of changes in the fishing pressure and the proportion of fishery catch which is discarded at sea.

The researchers began their work in 2007 by investigating sheephead population dynamics and life histories in response to fishing pressure.

The scientists don't know if fish population increases beyond the MPA borders are related to reduced fishing pressure, spillover from MPAs, favorable environmental conditions or a combination of all three.

Already, this fishing pressure has caused species to evolve new growth patterns and behaviors.

Increased age at maturity would make white sharks more sensitive to fishing pressure than previously thought, given the longer time needed to rebuild white shark populations.

Biological monitoring had included crocodile surveys, turtle nesting surveys, fishing pressure, coral cover surveys, birds and other wildlife surveys.

Fishing pressure has reduced the lobster population in recent years and these spectacular migrations are rare.

The immense size of these flats, and the lack of fishing pressure has left these tarpon with an very aggressive nature, and they move readily to almost any properly presented fly.

Marine conservation groups want it even more, chief among them Oceana, which released a report yesterday tallying the various subsidies and mapping the intense fishing pressure that this level of government support produces.

Finds that water quality and fishing pressure had minimal effect on the unprecedented bleaching in 2016, suggesting that local protection of reefs affords little or no resistance to extreme heat

Ocean - lovers from all walks of life came together to create marine protected areas because MPAs have been proven to enhance the resilience of ocean ecosystems to withstand cumulative impacts of human and natural stressors (e.g., pollution, coastal development, fishing pressure, climate change, etc.).

Depending on an ecosystem's composition and the other environmental factors affecting it — fishing pressure and pollution, for instance — some will likely fare better than others.

Giant manta rays (Manta birostris) are considered to be «vulnerable with an elevated risk of extinction,» due to fishing pressure and growing international demand.