Sentences with phrase «marine fisheries»

If only politicians were as keen to address climate change, biodiversity loss, the collapse of marine fisheries, and a lot more of the environmental problems rather than «window dressing».

Approximately half of the fish caught in marine fisheries are thrown back into the sea, but very few survive.

So why is some integral funding for marine fisheries falling?

This is the case for many marine fisheries [9].

«Our results suggest the need to conduct full - fledged economic analyses of the potential economic effects of climate change on global marine fisheries,» they write.

Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Seattle Washington USA.

Overall, the animations will help stewards of ocean life think about underwater sound in three dimensions, says Greg Silber, coordinator of recovery activities for endangered large whales at the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission conducts stock assessments of 23 key coastal fish stocks, and completed a major benchmark stock assessment for river herring in May 2012.

A status update of the striped bass stock hasn't been completed since 2011, said Mike Waine, a coordinator with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which helps to set fishing quotas for commercial operations to protect fish populations.

Considering their commercial value in overseas markets, 10 marine fisheries from India have been identified as the targeted fishery for securing the eco-labelling certification of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), London.

They found that while China has attempted to reverse the trend of declining fish stocks in the past, serious institutional reforms are needed to achieve a true shift in marine fisheries management.

But the pressures on marine fisheries appear to be mounting faster than the push for new practices to shift to more sustainable harvests.

Two recent studies highlight a debate within the world of marine fisheries science over how to interpret available fisheries data

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Proposed legislation that will expand corn - ethanol production in the United States will worsen the growing «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico and hurt marine fisheries, report researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The researchers examined the history of Chinese government priorities, policies, and outcomes related to marine fisheries since China's 1978 Economic Reform, and examined how its leaders» agenda for «ecological civilization» could successfully transform marine resource management in the coming years.

Gregory Skomal, a senior scientist with the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, said he thought Worm's estimate had «credibility» and that it was «the best available data.»

Clayton holds a graduate degree in marine fisheries biology and an undergraduate degree in wildlife biology.

The 31 - page document, apparently drafted after the Senate and Assembly approved one - house budget bills of their own last week, lays out in intricate detail where each chamber and the governor stand on dozens of outstanding budget issues, from billions of dollars in school aid to cuts in welfare checks to rules for marine fishery licenses.

Most fisheries are marine, rather than freshwater; most marine fisheries are based near the coast.

In the 1970s, a burgeoning offshore marine fishery for river herring is thought to have driven additional declines.

«The place that NOAA sits doesn't matter; what matters is that its operations need to be coherent and functioning,» says Andrew Rosenberg, a former head of NOAA's marine fisheries program and now chief scientist and senior vice president for science at Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia.

«Our research on whale sharks in the Red Sea clearly shows that much remains to be learned about the species,» said co-author Greg Skomal, a Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries biologist and WHOI adjunct scientist.

MPAs serve many purposes, from recreation to rebuilding fish stocks and supporting sustainable marine fisheries.

Natanson and co-author Gregory Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries examined the banding patterns on vertebrae from white sharks collected between 1963 and 2010 by the NOAA Fisheries Apex Predators Program.

Previously a postdoctoral research associate at the NOAA NEFSC's Woods Hole Laboratory, Fay's research focuses on spatial modeling and statistical analyses of marine fisheries populations with an expertise in quantitative fisheries science and ecosystem modeling.

As reptiles with a significant pelagic component, marine turtles may resemble marine fisheries more than terrestrial populations.

Instead, as is the case with many marine fisheries [2], [5], [6], [7], [9], [10], [11] climate forcing seems to dominate population dynamics.

The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission voted Thursday to change the way large vessels trawl for shrimp in the Pamlico Sound.

The brand new mobile unit will be a valuable asset to not only GACFS» stranding response crew but for the larger National Marine Fisheries Mammal Stranding Network, of which the GACFS is a member.

The leveling off of marine fisheries capture since the 1980s is unfortunately not due to marine stewardship, but to overfishing.

Mexican officials have been in quiet discussions with American marine fisheries agencies and with some biologists studying turtle deaths in Baja, but publicly have pushed back, questioning whether fishing is the cause of the pulse of recent loggerhead deaths.

Hearing in Galloway on fishery plan addendum: The New Jersey Marine Fisheries Administration has scheduled a public hearing for a draft addendum to the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan.

The salinity of bays and estuaries might increase, adversely affecting marine fisheries.

For Dr. William Cheung from the University of British Columbia's Marine Fisheries Center, the forum provided an opportunity to contextualize the research he conducted for the recently published IPCC fifth assessment report on the ocean for a Chinese audience.

Now, after devoting her career to academia, the former Oregon State University professor will become the first woman to lead the agency of roughly 12,500 employees that provides weather and climate forecasting, monitors atmospheric data, manages marine fisheries and mammals, and maps and charts all U.S. waters.

Woods Hole also contains several scientific organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Research Center, National Marine Fisheries Aquarium, and the scientific institutions» various museums.

After California Sea Grant identified that a flashboard dam was stopping endangered coho salmon from moving upstream, a recovery plan by the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service billed it as the highest priority barrier for remediation in the Russian River.

To gauge the severity of the problem, marine conservation biologist Andy Read of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, tabulated estimates of fishing - related cetacean deaths reported by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service from 1990 to 1999.

«As is often the case with ecosystem change, some species may benefit from changes in distribution and timing of prey whereas others may not be able to adapt and subsequently decline,» said Toby Auth of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission and lead author of the paper.

His funded research has included investigations into fish growth in estuaries and rivers, marine fisheries management, invasion biology, and the population consequences of among - individual heterogeneity in birth and death rates.

Two years ago, a habitat management plan, commissioned by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, found that the populations were at best stable and probably declining.

I never obtained an advanced science degree, but in majoring in biology and working in marine fisheries science long ago, and then through decades of reading and reporting on science, I developed a passion for this endeavor as the most powerful tool yet devised to separate myths and spin from durable knowledge, including knowledge of uncertainty.