Sentences with phrase «for shark fishing»

The town is also a centre for shark fishing, and is the home of the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain.

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Tiger sharks were fished out of the ocean for blood samples before being thrown back.

The numbers are getting lower each year as more sharks die as by - catch in fishing operations and get hunted for their dorsal fins.

STEP 5 Sometimes the cable is left to sink to the ocean floor and rest on the sandy bottom, but for the best protection from ship anchors, fishing nets and shark attacks, a sea plow or remotely operated vehicle may be used to bury cable between 1.5 and 3 metres below the bottom.

On the contrary the fishing of sharks for their fins by humans has brought many species to the brink of extinction.

It is partially for this reason that a distressed fish that is flapping around a lot attracts sharks so fast.

He is either sealed forever in a steel container, with a signal producing gadget beaming it's location to a monitor somewhere, or he was shark bait, and was the hors d'oeuvres for some fish last night.

Furthermore, sensory receptors for these chemicals have been found in all vertebrates except cartilaginous fishes such as sharks.

The marine based capsule that is ideally suited for dietary supplements such as fish oil, DHA, EPA, salmon liver oil, shark cartilage and glucosamine

Here is a tasty option for cooking shark, or, for that matter, any firm fish that is big enough to have steaks cut from it, such as swordfish.

Any firm fish such as Mahi Mahi, tuna, halibut, or shark could be substituted for the swordfish.

In Theaters: Jackass: Number Two Johnny Knoxville and the boys return for more of their own unique brand of funand games, including shark fishing (using a human as bait, natch) andboa - constrictor wrestling.

Just watch out for fish known to contain harmful levels of mercury, such as shark, swordfish, and king mackerel.

Eating up to 12 ounces of most types of fish and seafood per week is good for you and your baby, but avoid fish with high levels of mercury, such as shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish.

It is okay to enjoy sushi again, but watch out for tuna, mackerel, shark, swordfish, and tile - fish because these fishes contain high amounts of mercury which can be toxic to your baby's nervous system.

Kent is passionate about ancient sharks and rays, but he could not do that work because UMD's Department of Entomology, where he had his post, did not have a position for cartilaginous fish paleontology.

In Fishes of the Open Ocean, Pepperell writes that historic accounts tell of thresher sharks attacking whales, and notes that while these stories seem highly unlikely, they do make for fascinating reading.

Marine ecologist Boris Worm of the Institute for Marine Science in Kiel, Germany, tackled the problem with Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and others as part of a long - term project that has documented dramatic declines in fish and shark species worldwide (ScienceNOW, 14 May).

Although the authors don't know for sure whether shark numbers have gone up, they speculate that the population could have been boosted by fishing discards before all fishing in the area was banned in 2006.

For example, the Whale Shark and Regal Koi designs actually resemble the patterns of a whale shark or koi Shark and Regal Koi designs actually resemble the patterns of a whale shark or koi shark or koi fish.

«Even a «low - mercury» variety of shark,» says Edward Groth, a former senior scientist at the Consumers Union and an independent scientist who consults for the Mercury Policy Project (MPP), «is still a very high - mercury fish.»

That goes for every large predatory fish: sharks, tuna, sailfish, cod... It's only through fishing that we have any idea how many fish are out there.

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Just a couple of sharks can pay for a day's worth of fishing.

«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,» MacPhersonSharks 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,» MacPhersonsharks don't lend themselves to traditional fisheries management policies,» MacPherson says.

Carefully designed marine reserves and a reduction in fishing, they write, «could hold promise for safeguarding sharks and other large pelagic predators from further declines and ecological extinction.»

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During that time, the La Paz area became a hub for soup - bound shark fishing, especially hammerheads, which fishermen say have especially large fins.

«If sleeper sharks are involved in predation, it creates something of a dilemma,» said Horning, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «In recent years, groundfish harvests in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lions.

That seems to be the feeding strategy for sharks and other bony fish that thrive in the western Mediterranean Sea, at depths exceeding 2000 metres.

At the press conference the fishermen gave last August after they returned to Mexico from the Marshall Islands, reporters asked them if they had really been running drugs, not fishing for sharks.

Sharks are sensitive to overfishing, both as bycatch for fisherman seeking other fish and as targets for sport or in areas where shark meat is a delicacy.

As microorganisms consume the methylmercury, the metal accumulates and migrates up the food chain; that is why the largest predator fish (sharks and swordfish, for example) typically have the highest concentrations.

And other fish are aged by measuring calcareous bodies that grow in their ears, but this doesn't work for sharks.

Photographs of a Ganges river shark snapped at a fish market in Mumbai are the first confirmed record of the species for more than a decade

Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish

Declining populations of native aquatic fauna such as euryhaline bull sharks, sawfish and tarpon, important for sport fishing and tourism, could also suffer.

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

The boneless octopus must avoid becoming lunch for sharks, eels, fish and even killer whales.

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The second type is a 20 - centimeter - long robo - fish designed to move more like a tuna or shark, which swim faster and for longer distances.

Either way, she says, the work shows that «something seemingly unrelated, like fishing all the trout from a pond or removing sharks from the ocean, could have big consequences for greenhouse - gas dynamics».

Threats to the species include incidental capture as bycatch in fishing nets, which in some parts of the range has turned into direct hunts for either human consumption or shark bait.

But the return of commercial fishers — especially long - line tuna boats — outside the 12 - mile zone is bad enough, says Richmond, who predicts a heavy toll on sharks as well as tunas, as the bycatch rate is one shark for every two tunas.

«Reef fish that conquer fear of sharks may help control excess algae: Coral reef fish willing to risk life and fin for a good meal.»

Fishes» fear of sharks helps shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific, according to new research by a scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

In the meantime Moore has some advice for any shark - o - philes going on vacation: «Always go to the fish market with a camera, especially in tropical countries where there is little data — there is always the chance that you could find something new.

«This study highlights two major issues for Europe's fish: the threats to large fish species, including sharks and rays, and the severe overfishing in the Mediterranean, which is in contrast to the improving picture in the northeast Atlantic.

While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.