Sentences with phrase «for fisheries»

Finding out where the seals spend their time when they're not hunting could be a major boon for fisheries management in the region.
This could mean additional opportunities for fisheries in the high - latitudes, the researchers say.
«That has some important implications for fisheries,» he says.
Understanding changes in the pattern of these waters is important for fisheries, for example.
The authors recommend new institutions for science - based fisheries management, secure fishing access, policy consistency across provinces, educational programs for fisheries managers, and increasing public access to scientific data.
Climate change is also creating problems for fisheries; for example, commercially valuable stocks move in response to warming seas.
The goal is to create a prototype for fisheries managers coping with similar conflicts that are bound to arise as climate change impacts become more evident.
More than a dozen countries are interested in using similar models for their fisheries and conservation planning.
Stock assessment research, which combines statistics, economics, ecology and other disciplines, provides essential information for fisheries management.
It was during this position that he developed a passion for fisheries science.
This city of 100,000 has always been connected to the oceans — in the past for its fisheries — but now much of its bounty lies in offshore oil and gas.
The awareness of environmental threats and the willingness and readiness to stand up to the challenge by local communities is a good starting point for any fisheries or coastal management action.
The fact that young fish as well as adults are moving their habitats could have serious implications for fisheries, the researchers said.
For instance, it is important for fisheries and agriculture.
This project was a 7 million Euro Grant sought for by the late Mrs Gladys Asmah, Minister for Fisheries from the Spanish Government during an ICCAT meeting in Spain in 2007.
Local fishermen, Nova Scotia Mi» kmaq chiefs, and Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan are among those who have voiced concerns about Northern Pulp's plan, saying it could have unintended consequences for fisheries in the area.
The Gili Islands are dependent on a healthy marine habitat for their fisheries, tourism, sand supply, shore protection and marine biodiversity.
«It's an absolutely uncontrolled industry» in Europe, says Willem Dekker of the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research in Ijmuiden.
«Community - led marine reserve produces benefits for fisheries, conservation.»
There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.
He served as Member of Parliament for Tema East from 1996 to 2008, and between that period, he was, first, appointed as Minister of State for Fisheries from 2001 to 2003 by former President John Agyekum Kufuor.
«Sustainable fisheries generate billions of dollars for our economy, help keep saltwater recreational fishing as one of our nation's favorite past times, and help coastal communities remain economically resilient,» said Eileen Sobeck, assistant NOAA administrator for fisheries.
Or is there an economic motive for coastal property owners to do the cleanup because the new shallow / tidal water will be a food source and nursery for fisheries, toxic or not — so we could make it a safe clean part of the ocean.
He was assigned the climate change duties when he was the National Marine Fisheries Service Division Chief for Fisheries Development in the 1970s.
I was assigned the climate change duties when I was the National Marine Fisheries Service Division Chief for Fisheries Development in the 1970s.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency responsible for fisheries management, should seize this opportunity to protect bluefin tuna from dying needlessly on surface longlines.
Part of a 12 - step program for fisheries ecologists?
Riparian rights are very common in agricultural conveyancing and these are that the owners of a fishery have the right of free passage of fish for his fishery together with the right to catch every fish that goes to it.
Patterns of potential catch for fisheries are changing globally as well, with both positive and negative consequences.
October 4, 2013 Climate Change journal focuses special issue on Indigenous peoples as they cope with consequences of climate change This week, the Portland, Oregon based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), a technical support and coordinating agency for fishery management policies of the Columbia River Basin's four treaty tribes, is applauding the publication of the journal Climate Change.
OTTAWA — Newfoundland and Labrador's premier says the prime minister has changed the rules mid-game for a fishery fund to compensate for Canada's free trade deal with Europe.
Governments the world over share responsibility for fishery collapses.
The final bill stripped $ 150 million from the earlier, Senate - approved bill for fisheries disasters stretching from Alaska to Mississippi and New England.
In truth, the final Sandy aid package did not include money for fisheries in Alaska and other states after complaints from conservatives about spending unrelated to the storm.
The targets of these meetings include senior policy advisors within the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Prime Minister's Office, and the chiefs of staff for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Natural Resources Canada.
Its biggest customers are part of the retail, wholesale, construction, agriculture automotive and freight forwarding industries, while it also ships products for fisheries and the U.S. military.
The region is an important one for fisheries, but it has experienced significant declines in shrimp and Dungeness crab that have not recovered despite fisheries closures.
As well as being vital to climate control, it also creates enough oxygen for every other breath we take, and forms the base of the food chain for fisheries so it is incredibly important for food security.
«Sharks management is such a conundrum for fisheries management organizations because they're so used to fish, and sharks don't lend themselves to traditional fisheries management policies,» MacPherson says.
With that in mind, the algorithm presented by Sabo et al. in Science recommends long low - flow periods punctuated by pulses of flooding, which will allow dam operators to co-manage their power generation priorities, while protecting livelihoods for fisheries downstream.
Current management practices for fisheries restrict the size and variety of fish landed (through quotas and minimum size restrictions).
It is the adaptability of the fishermen and their methods that cause some concern for fishery managers and researchers; they say that for those reasons, the sustainability of the marine ecosystems could be in danger of being ruined.
«It is consistent with the tendency for fisheries to first exploit larger species and subsequently move down the food web and target smaller species,» said study co-author Matthew Knope, a former postdoc in Payne's lab who is now an assistant professor of biology at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo.
«As fish move to cooler waters, this generates new opportunities for fisheries in the Arctic,» says Miranda Jones, a UBC Nereus Fellow and lead author of this study.
Preliminary surveys suggest a laboratory primarily used for fisheries research and aquaculture experienced some flooding but avoided major damage, Palmer says.
«Climate change may have costs for fisheries, but you don't have to make bad choices that accentuate it for decades.»
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