Sentences with phrase «illegal fishing methods»

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.

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The President continued, «Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) methods are depleting our fish stocks.

«Once people started using destructive fishing methods they stuck with what is familiar — even after those methods later became illegal.

Despite legislation that banned destructive fishing, the use of such illegal methods persisted.

A 2008 report from NOAA estimated that 90 percent of the aquarium fish imported into the United States were captured with cyanide or other illegal methods.

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

So far, it's been easy for fishing vessels to carry out illegal fishing activities like catching more than is regulated, fishing during off - seasons, fishing in protected waters or with illegal methods because it's hard to monitor ships that are far out in the ocean, out of sight.