Sentences with phrase «important fisheries»

Two projects in Florida and Hawaii will seek to restore coastal reef formations that play a critical role in deflecting waves and debris from storm systems and sustaining «economically important fisheries.»

Their programs focus on recreationally and commercially important fisheries, marine mammals, and the habitats that support these populations.

The Chesapeake dead zones, which have been highly variable in recent years, threaten a multi-year effort to restore the Bay's water quality and enhance its production of crabs, oysters, and other important fisheries.

Fish and shellfish either leave the oxygen - depleted waters or die, threatening the bay's production of crabs, oysters and other important fisheries.

They are considered biodiversity hotspots and play a major role in supporting commercially important fisheries.

There are large and important fisheries worldwide for various species of fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

Parasitic worms can pose a serious threat to the Dungeness crab, a commercially important fishery species found along the west coast of North America.

It achieved this status primarily due to it having an astounding coral reef and it being a spawning area for an important fishery species, the pelagic plectropomus grouper.

For example, increasing temperatures will lead to increased production of important fishery resources in some areas but decreased production in others while increases in acidification will have negative impacts on important invertebrate species, including species responsible for building coral reefs which provide essential habitat for many fished species in these areas.

One aspect of the El Nino — La Nina cycle is how it affects a historically very important fishery — The Peruvian anchovy.

It once again became an important fishery and popular

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Fisheries and aquaculture are important sources of food, nutrition, income and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Organic agriculture is an important source of income for island residents, especially as fisheries become depleted, and organic crops help reduce the need to import so much fresh food and minimize the introduction of invasive species that arrive in these shipments.

Because freshness is so important to us, we own and operate our own seafood processing and distribution facility, Farallon Fisheries, thus fulfilling our commitment to being seafood people in the restaurant business.

For himself, Bunning saved assignments to the banking committee — finance is his area of expertise — and to the Merchant Marines and Fisheries Committee, which tackles issues that are important to his district.

It's important to remember here that Britain would be completely outside of foreign influence in those areas not covered by the EEA agreement, like agriculture and fisheries.

The yellowfin is tremendously important to commercial fisheries, and the total world catch amounts to at least 800,000 tons per year.

Two other Amazon resources — fisheries and forests — are important to the livelihood of the people of the region.

Although the Santa María - La Reforma lagoon complex in the Gulf of California is one of the most important areas for shrimp fishery, little is known about the crustacean species that live in the burrows dug in the bottom.

«Seafood is big business in our country, and NOAA will continue to work as hard as we can to manage America's fisheries, so our fishermen can continue to provide this important food source for all of us.»

What is important about our study is that it is a different methodology than what is used by fisheries scientists for stock assessments, and therefore we serve as an independent verification,» says Kent Carpenter, a marine biologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and a co-author on the paper.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

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.

«Species are important not only for providing direct benefits in terms of fisheries but also providing natural infrastructure that supports fisheries,» explains team member Emmett Duffy of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

«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.

He has recently started collaborations with scientists who work on economically and ecologically important systems like fisheries and honey bee colonies.

It's also helping to keep an important human fishery going.

The Mekong river floods annually, and it is known that those floods are important for fisheries, Sabo said.

According to Lindsay Murray of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding grounFisheries and Food's fisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding grounfisheries laboratory at Burnham - on - Crouch, who is leading the investigation, the surveys have found crabs across more than 100 square kilometres of the Norfolk coast and show that «the bank is part of an important crab fishery and breeding ground».

But environmentalists fear changed seasonal flows of the river will destroy the river's fisheries, one of the region's most important sources of food (see Map).

Marine litter affects ecosystem services, which has important implications for human welfare through losses to economic sectors such as tourism, fisheries, aquaculture, navigation and energy.

Their foraging areas were situated to river estuaries and other shallow coastal areas, which are also important for coastal fishery.

It is however important to ensure that these fisheries are operating at a sustainable level.»

It is important to NOAA to understand the potential impact of leaks on fisheries and marine sanctuaries, and their timescale, says Symons.

The results of the study come as fisheries for king and queen scallops have become some of the most important in the UK, generating more than # 60 million first sale every year.

The fisheries are an important source of finance, protein and cultural identity, but information can be scarce on their status — despite often being listed as one of the major threats to turtle populations.

We'll see a loss of fish populations that are important to the fisheries and communities in these regions.»

«That has some important implications for fisheries,» he says.

An important fish for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem is getting more protection under a new target set today at a meeting of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC).

The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride), one of the most important fish on coral reefs yet also highly sought - after fishery species.

Barry Gold, leader of the marine conservation effort at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in San Francisco, describes Sugihara's analytical tools as «important for understanding how we manage fisheries.»

These are known to be major spawning grounds for commercial cod, haddock, saithe and herring fisheries, and protecting the ecosystem there is important.

In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to ocean acidification to a certain extent.

As part of the study, UBC researchers created a database that examines the long - term vulnerability of marine species that are important to fisheries around the world.

«As ocean oxygen content declines and acidity increases in California waters it will become increasingly important to incorporate these changes into fisheries management practices,» says Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Lisa Levin, Sato's advisor and a study coauthor.

A former top NOAA fisheries regulator, however, says where NOAA is located is less important than whether Congress and the White House gives it the funds and political support it needs to do an expanding job.

«This is the world's largest meeting of marine mammal professionals, and the place we all compare notes and look for patterns and trends that help us piece together important changes out in the ocean,» said NOAA Fisheries research scientist Jay Barlow, a co-author of the new humpback research and president - elect of the Society.

As part of the conference, Byron Young, a retired Marine Biologist, talks about the biology and efforts at restoration of this important prey fish that is key to sustaining a large portion of the important east coast marine fisheries stock.