Sentences with phrase «fishing quota»

The boats whole purpose was to get their fishing quota and to get paid.

Because the western Atlantic breeding populations have been declining over the past few decades, the fishing quota for nations that fish this unit has been set considerably lower than the quota for eastern Atlantic tuna fishing.

Their findings suggest catch shares (the individual allocation of fishing quota to vessels) can reduce risk - taking and improve safety in commercial fishing.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proposals he has to make changes to the fishing quota system; and if he will make a statement.

Fishermen's livelihoods are at risk from «slipper skippers» and organisations selling fishing quota as a commodity, MPs warned today.

Those that have been in power in Iceland for a long time have been gradually been giving their friends and allies -LSB-... drops out...] So they put forward a bill for this new fishing quota that is really badly written.

Aloha Seafood avoids doing business with fishing vessels based in third - world countries, as they often violate fishing quotas or sustainability practices, he says.

The government has secured an increase in EU fish quotas after fishermen complained they were forced to throw more than half of healthy catches back into the sea.

The entire European system of fish quotas is designed to 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.

In attempting to check the facts behind this assertion, one must assume, therefore, that Nigel Farage is referring to the allocations of fishing quotas which are determined by the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

The government will lobby the EU to increase fishing quotas in a bid to reduce the number of healthy fish being thrown back into the school.

Cod stocks have decreased even though fishing quotas should have maintained a sustainable cod fishery.

The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) uses fisheries stock assessment data in its annual scientific advice concerning the fishing quotas for the Baltic salmon.

The lawmakers also directed Congress to use independent fish stock assessments in addition to NOAA assessments when determining fish quotas.

She said the rule would also help NOAA properly identify caught species, a necessity for monitoring and enforcing shark fishing quotas.

«If future research confirms that an index of species» abundance can be derived from naked DNA extracted from water,» says Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment, «it could easily improve the rationality with which fish quotas are set, and the quality and reliability of their monitoring around the world.»

He has shown that, between 1987 and 2011, European fishing quotas were on average a third higher than scientific recommendations (Marine Pollution Bulletin, doi.org/bwrrgc).

The Common Fisheries Policy, set up in 1970, governs the European fishing industry, with annual fishing quotas for each EU member state.

Scientists say that this is linked to how the areas are managed, how fishing quotas are set and how fish stocks are monitored.

Fish quotas were ostensibly invented to conserve fish by restricting the number of each species a fishing boat could catch.

Everybody has to start, eat less fish, don't eat whale meat, don't allow our government to keep high fishing quotas, make sure our government (the US does have an election coming up...) takes a strong stand on the issue of whaling.

HB Grandi is Iceland's largest fishing and seafood export company, controlling nearly 12 per cent of the country's fishing quotas.

The problem is that governments, scientists and major international organizations like the FAO rely on this faulty data to decide on fish quotas and licensing.

If the fishing quotas are in place to stop overfishing, it seems only common sense that fishermen should make every effort to not land the fish in the first place.

Thus, in effect, cod were overfished because ocean warming wasn't adequately considered in fishing quotas.

Not exact matches

The 6 - page document on Wednesday called for zero tariffs and quotas on goods but placed a rider that the European Union should continue to have full fishing rights in British waters.

The governmental body regulates fishing for private enterprises with quotas in an attempt to conserve the population and preserve the area.

The bill will prevent the controversial 142m Abel Tasman, formerly known as the Margiris, from fishing for its 18,000 tonne quota in seas stretching from southern Queensland to Wester...

It's true the EU used to have a problem with managing fish stocks, which led to many fishermen discarding their catches to stay on the right side of the quota.

The CFP allows EU boats to fish in nominally UK waters and vice versa and puts quotas on how many fish can be caught.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday told the U.S. Secretary of Commerce that the state will sue the Department of Commerce and fishery regulatory bodies if changes aren't made to the fluke quota, which he says hurt New York's economy and commercial fishing families.

The tiny nation unilaterally set its quotas very high and started catching more fish.

Austerity means the UK hasn't had any real fishing policy for years, for instance on the concentration of quotas into ever - fewer hands.

This means that people's lives are now going to be bartered over as part of a trade deal in which we believe they will get lost amid rows about airline slots, trade quotas and discarded fish carcases.

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 EU sets strict quotas for the number of each species of fish trawlers can bring back to port in a bid to prevent over-fishing of protected stocks such as cod.

Fisherman, however, complain these quotas mean they are having to throw back surplus fish, with as much as 60 per cent of catches going back into the sea.

Cuomo issued a letter to United States Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross requesting strong action to fix damaging fluke quotas that are negatively impacting New York's commercial fishing industry.

State officials are asking the federal government to change its quotas to allow New York - based commercial fishing companies to haul in more fluke.

The Democrats say the current quotas unfairly limit the New York fishers» allocation because they're based on outdated data from the 1980s.

To huge applause, the former Ukip leader added: «We didn't fight to win that referendum to argue with a begging bowl in Brussells for better [fishing] quotas.

«The most important thing was setting the quotas at the appropriate level,» Lent says, so that both the fish and the fishery economy can be sustained.

Current management practices for fisheries restrict the size and variety of fish landed (through quotas and minimum size restrictions).

The European Commission proposed an overall cut in quotas for deep sea fishing in the northeast Atlantic for the next two years, but environmental groups said it should have reduced some catch limits to zero to allow stocks to recover

Quotas are annual limits, set by the EU, on the quantities of each species of fish which can be landed for sale.

We found that a ban combined with catch quotas has the greatest potential to incentivise more selective fishing, but only for regulated species such as cod, haddock and plaice.

Catch - quota trials have been funded as have projects to design and use more selective fishing nets.

«The recently agreed reforms to the Common Fisheries Policy took years to secure but the policy now includes a phased introduction of a discard ban (completed by 2019) and legally binding commitments to set quotas at levels that achieve maximum sustainable yields of commercial fish stocks.

The report suggests that one fix could be transferable quotas, an approach that a recent paper in Science showed has been successful in preventing the collapse of fish stocks.