Sentences with phrase «local fisheries»

It is leaving behind vast salt plains, transforming the climate with hotter summers and colder winters, destroying what remains of local fisheries, and producing massive dust storms that spread disease.

In fact, the reef draws more the 150,000 tourists annually, and local fisheries bring in millions of dollars for their catches.

The fish is line - caught and purchased every morning from small scale local fisheries.

The bad news is that the reefs are showing signs of being overfished and weak compliance with local fisheries laws needs to be reversed to maintain the fish that help to keep reefs healthy.

Local fisheries in countries such as Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and East Timor (the six countries forming the Coral Triangle, the world epicentre of marine biodiversity) feed hundreds of millions of people and are under growing stress from development, overfishing and climate change.

Schindler, quoted by Reuters and speaking about the dependency of people in the region on local fisheries for food said, «I don't think the concentrations alone are dangerous.

The authors recommend that these coral refuge areas maintain a fish biomass of greater than 500 kilograms per hectare, which, as previously published WCS research shows, is the threshold to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries.

In his new role as Deepwater Wind's fisheries liaison, Avila will perform outreach to the commercial and recreational fishing communities and guide communication between local fisheries representatives and Deepwater Wind regarding the company's planned offshore wind farms.

Around Cape Cod, a similar array will monitor the ecosystems crucial to local fisheries for up to five years, after which the moorings will be moved to study other coastal ecosystems, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Knowing the right amount to leave behind can help local fisheries set clear limits to how many fish can be taken without threatening the ecosystem they rely on.

«It's proof that traditional local fishery management pays off — and that is particularly critical in countries around the world where government fisheries schemes are lacking or poorly enforced.

Avila will perform outreach to the commercial and recreational fishing communities and guide communication between local fisheries representatives and Deepwater Wind regarding the company's planned offshore wind farms.

Such projects are controversial since diverting the river to protect New Orleans would destroy property and swamp local fisheries with sediment.

The team is in talks with a few local fisheries to explore ways of converting aquaculture waste material into useful materials, as well as to scale - up the collagen extraction process for effective waste - to - resource management.

«Our strategy was to develop a rapid assessment instrument that would organize the knowledge of local fishery experts to help us understand how harvesters and processors are performing economically and how the fishery is supporting its community.

For example, local fisheries partnered with national organizations and hobbyists across the country to oppose legislation that would harm the responsible aquatics trade in Hawaii.

The Mikoko Pamoja («mangroves together») project is restoring Gazi Bay's coastal ecosystems, with community members planting thousands of mangrove seedlings each year and trading the resulting carbon offset on the global market — protecting the coastline, restoring local fisheries, and bringing in over $ 25,000 for community initiatives in the project's first two years alone.

Impacts on coral reefs are already documented and even readily visible to tourists; this is virtually certainly harming local fisheries so critical to the protein supply of many poor people.

The best hope for the dolphin, say researchers, is through joint conservation programs designed in cooperation with local fisheries administrations.

In addition, coastal wetlands have been shown to increase local fishery productivity.

Johnson said that further methane release could exacerbate the current environment effects in Washington and Oregon on local fisheries and biology, such as seafloor slopes — where gluing the sediment slopes in place is frozen methane — becoming destabilized.

• Coral reefs that maintained 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare (about 50 percent of an average reef's carrying capacity) were found to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries, providing fishers and marine managers with a critical target.

The team plans to look at the genetic make - up of local fisheries» catches to see if they are being bulked up by fish breeding in the reserves.

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.

Local fisheries management resulted in a 62 percent increase in the density of young corals, which improves the ecosystem's ability to recover from major impacts like hurricanes and coral bleaching, according to the team's findings, published in Science Advances.

We Love: The daily «Point Judith by - catch»; a testament to Sukle's relationship with local fisheries, it features underdogs like weakfish, cunner fish, or scup — all of which taste way better than they sound.

There's a big push down here after the BP oil spill in the Gulf to support the local fisheries in the Mobile Bay area, which include a big emphasis on shrimp and crab, flounder, red snapper and big - game fish.

Local fisheries and markets catch, clean and cook the feast, comprising nearly 15,000 pounds of fresh seafood that also involves preparing bushels of oysters and bags of clams from the west coast of Florida.

Here's one example: While lobbying for the new law, Winter helped summarize and explain nearly 2 decades» worth of research on the local fishery, a task made easier by his years of experience doing literature reviews.

Pauly hopes the study «will get governments to focus more on their local fisheries.»

With their bodies undiscovered, Amparo remains ineligible for reparations: Substantial, empathetic stretches of «Los Silencios» follow her struggle simply to get by in this hard - up new environment, scraping money together for school supplies or desperately seeking employment in local fisheries.

Since the population of fish is directly related to the production of phytoplankton, the growth in phytoplankton numbers increases the yield of local fisheries.

Our local fishery is rich in diversity of fish species.

For example, the range and abundance of economically important marine fish are already changing due to climate change and are projected to continue changing such that some local fisheries are very likely to cease to be viable, whereas others may become more valuable if the fishing community can adapt.

Because many marine organisms — like clams, oysters, sea urchins and corals — use calcium carbonate to build their shells, local marine scientists say acidic oceans pose a real threat to local fisheries.

El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO)- The term El Niño was initially used to describe a warm - water current that periodically flows along the coast of Ecuador and Peru, disrupting the local fishery.

Coral reefs that maintained 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare (about 50 percent of an average reef's carrying capacity) were found to maintain ecological functions while sustaining local fisheries, providing fishers and marine managers with a critical target.

While local fisheries may be able to avoid the problem for now — they can always escape by moving up the water column — they could begin to suffer if oxygen and nutrient levels continue to plummet.

NEF's Fish Dependence report says that local fisheries can supply just 196 days worth of fish eating in the UK, meaning that July 16 marks the day when the nation statistically starts relying on fish from abroad.

NEF's Fish Dependence report says that local fisheries can supply just 196 days worth of fish

Recently a tanker off the coast of Australia crashed, spilling 52,000 gallons of oil and shutting down local fisheries.