Sentences with phrase «managed ocean fisheries»

The MSC is committed to creating well - managed ocean fisheries to ensure the long - term sustainability of fish stocks and healthy marine ecosystems.

Not exact matches

The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) meeting at Kobe III manage tuna fisheries in 91 % of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment Group, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC.

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Judy Skog, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research, said the findings should be incorporated into decisions about how we manage ocean resources like fisheries.

Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to manage harvests of tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for bluefin tuna that conservation groups and United States fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.