Sentences with word «longliners»

Last year, 65 seiners — half American, half Korean — signed up to join a fleet of longliners in the Cook Islands» fishing zone.

The four Fu Yuan Yu longliners were fishing on the high seas in the Eastern Pacific for the three months prior to rendezvousing with the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999.

The company operates seven freezer longliners — six of its own plus one it manages for a native corporation — in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, where it primarily fishes for Alaska cod.

Longliners offer the same clues by spending a lot of time traveling back and forth over the same territory as they set and retrieve their lines and hooks.

Longliners posed a slightly different challenge because speed was not as relevant to longlining as it was to the other two gear types.

Kristina says the team fed AIS signals into their computer and asked the computer to mine the data and pull out tracks that met a certain set of expectations for what longliner fishing behavior over time and space looked like.

Officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) were extremely busy last week, fielding more than 57,000 comments they received opposing a proposal that further incentivizes pelagic longliners to target Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the fish's only known western Atlantic spawning area.

The American Bird Conservancy notes, «Thousands of miles of fishing lines, carrying hundreds of millions of hooks, are set by longliners throughout the world's oceans each year.

This is the first time an automated process has been developed to identify fishing activity of longliners.

Details of rendezvous between the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 and the four Fu Yuan Yu longliners.

However, David Little's company is one of the few harvesters utilizing baited hooks and longliners, a low - impact, environmentally sensitive fishing style that keeps species flourishing for the long term while ensuring the freshest fish possible for clients.

However, David Little's company is one of the few harvesters utilizing baited hooks and longliners, a low - impact, environmentally sensitive fishing style that keeps species flourishing for the long term while ensuring the freshest fish possible for clients.

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