Sentences with phrase «illegal fishing»

The initiative has already led to positive outcomes in the fight against illegal fishing in protected marine environments.

In 2016, massive new ocean protected areas and transformative policies to fight illegal fishing brought hope.

Yet these marine structures are quite fragile and susceptible to changes in temperature, climate, pH values, illegal fishing practices and careless land use.

We've exposed illegal fishing and human rights violations at sea, illegal timber trading across the globe, and tracked how dirty energy money in politics affect the policies around climate change.

Another effective factor for decreasing illegal fishing has been the increasing of tourism activities in park areas.

His story is not unique, and although he gave up such fishing practices more than 20 years ago to become an underwater guide, he thinks illegal fishing is commonplace.

«Indonesia's tough stance on illegal fishing not only jump - started recovery in their waters but also provided a viable example for countries all over the world that are plagued by overfishing driven by illegal behavior,» said co-author and Bren School professor Christopher Costello.

The NPP candidate said an NPP government would strengthen and enforce the Fisheries Act 2002 (Act 625) and establish a coastal guard unit that would collaborate with the Ghana Navy, to protect the country's territorial waters from illegal fishing practices.

In addition, the analysis demonstrated that in Gambia — a country that experienced high levels of illegal fishing from foreign fleets — a policy that banned all forms of industrial fishing in 2015 is working and has the potential to help local fisheries.

It was reported that the PUB had issued about 400 summonses for illegal fishing in 2015, and close to 500 in 2014.

With the limited fish stocks and the amount of debt fishermen are facing, we have been expecting something like this to happen for some time now,» said Koryürek, whose Slow Food Istanbul group is part of a committee fighting against illegal fishing on which Aslan has been active.

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

Several former illegal fishing boats have been sunken around the island.

Since the museum initiated a conservation operation last year, its vessel has succeeded in retrieving more than 900,000 linear feet of «ghost» and illegal fishing nets.

«Indonesia did a fantastic job of controlling illegal fishing in their waters.

In order to make the Gulf safe for the vaquita in the future, experts agree it's important to prevent illegal fishing of the also - endangered totoaba fish and to support alternative economies for the fishing community.

This included an extensive survey of fishermen which revealed their desire for better management of their fishery including improved enforcement to stop illegal fishing.

Though critically endangered, stocks have decline 80 % in the past three decades, the high prices paid for bluefin tuna in the Japanese market mean that quota levels are continually not set low enough to allow the fish to recover, as well meaning that there is extensive illegal fishing going on.

Applications of the technology include catching illegal fishing, tracking hurricanes and typhoons, detecting forest fires and monitoring volcanoes as soon as they begin.

Speaking to a group of fishermen and stakeholders in the fishing industry at Ekon near Cape Coast as part of his «Accounting to the people tour» in the Central Region, the president revealed that he had instructed the navy to arrest fishermen who engage in pair trawling and other illegal fishing activities.

The plan involves relocating some of the remaining vaquitas to a temporary sanctuary, while crucial efforts aimed at eliminating illegal fishing and removing gillnets from their environment continue.

A free Web service combats illegal fishing by exposing the movements of commercial vessels to public view

Year - by - year observation of the population in these areas and lack of population in others suggests to researchers how illegal fishing and lack of conservation can impact aggregation.

Professor Bob Pressey, also from Coral CoE, says authorities could use this knowledge to match patrols to the time and place when illegal fishers are most likely to be in action.

In other marine reserves illegal fishing has been a problem, but in this case any suspicious activity has been reported to the authorities and in several cases fishing boats have been encouraged to move on by COAST members.

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President Mahama's comment comes days after the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo promised to ban pair trawling and other illegal fishing methods when voted into power.

Illegal fishing also continues to be a major cause of mortality, with the researchers estimating a minimum of 65,000 turtles taken from Mexico alone since the year 2000.

Unfortunately, vaquitas continue to die in totoaba nets despite the valiant efforts by law enforcement agencies, the Mexican Navy, and conservation groups to prevent illegal fishing since the gillnet ban came into effect in April 2015, immediately before the new acoustic and visual studies were launched.

The MFA relies on open source data from the AIS which, while not suitable for a systematic control of potentially illegal fishing, is more accessible and offers new possibilities for research.

This work also revealed hotspots of foreign fishing activity in western Africa and the central Pacific, regions where more than 30 percent of fish catch is illegally obtained and where addressing illegal fishing could see benefits similar to Indonesia's.

The European Commission proposed a ban on imports of fish from Sri Lanka for not tackling illegal fishing properly and lifted a ban on fish imports from Belize following the reform of its vessel inspection practices.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University, who are attending the conference, have found a way to predict illegal fishing activities to help authorities better protect marine reserves.

This post chalked up more than 100 likes and shares, with over 70 comments from animal lovers that hoped the authorities would take action regarding illegal fishing and the impacts on marine life.

provide job opportunities to tour guides and a venue for recreational activities, prohibit illegal fishing and to deter other illegal activities which may be detrimental to the health of the flora and fauna.

ItÂ's been revealed that BelizeÂ's fisheries have been placed on a blacklist by the European Union (EU) after it was stated the country was not doing enough to reduce illegal fishing.

We host three rangers from the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association (TASA), whose conservation efforts curtail illegal fishing, fishing methods and undersized catch.

This is an outstanding and unique place full of pelagic life, so we need to accelerate the incorporation of the islands into UNESCO as [a] natural heritage site in order to increase the protection of the islands against the prevailing illegal fishing corporations and big - game fishing.

A fisherman who had criticized illegal fishing practices loses an eye in an armed attack as diminishing fish stocks and increased debts create a volatile atmosphere.

The team first unveiled the Global Fishing Watch prototype in 2014 and described the potential for cutting illegal fishing and promoting sustainable seafood harvests in the journal Science earlier this year in a paper aptly title, «Ending hide and seek at sea.»

photo: Stewart Butterfield / Creative Commons Illegal fishing for bluefin tuna by exceeding quotas, under - reporting quotas, and outright pirate fishing mean Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin are highly endangered.

Illegal fishing steals upwards of $ 10 billion dollars away from local fishermen every year.

As she noted at the Committee Hearing on her IUU bill, «Illegal fishing threatens the economic and social infrastructure of fishing communities around the world by decreasing opportunities for legitimate and conscientious fishermen.»

Kroodsma hopes Global Fishing Watch's data, all of which is freely available, will be useful to third parties interested in regulating illegal fishing.

Technology giant Google has taken the battle against illegal fishing online, with the company unveiling a tool in Australia on Friday that harnesses satellite data to track thousands of boats in real time.

Already, the government of Kiribati has used Global Fishing Watch data to unmask illegal fishing in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, declared off - limits to commercial fishing on January 1, 2015.

Their findings — based on analyzing automatic identification signals, which show movements of krill trawlers, and cargo and tanker vessels — found vessels that appeared to be transferring catch at sea to large refrigerated cargo ships, a practice called transshipment that has raised concerns about illegal fishing elsewhere.

The Mexican government banned all fishing for totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in 1975, but illegal fishing persists.

The goal is to defend the endangered bluefin tuna against illegal fishing operations, responsible for taking four times more fish than the legal quota, which are already so high that at current rates extinction for the fish is likely within a few years.