Sentences with phrase «new fish habitats»

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His new habitat at the Etihad Stadium has seen Bony surrounded by metaphorically bigger, although physically smaller, fish and he genuinely looks out of place in the City squad.

That could include projects such as building new habitat for birds and new fishing access sites for people.

Cuomo said, «These efforts will increase New York's marine biodiversity, provide new habitats for a variety of coral and fish, and support a growing tourism industry...&raqNew York's marine biodiversity, provide new habitats for a variety of coral and fish, and support a growing tourism industry...&raqnew habitats for a variety of coral and fish, and support a growing tourism industry...»

For example, fishing ranked as a top threat in North America and New Zealand, while habitat loss and climate change ranked higher in Europe.

That's how a new and improved habitat — whimsically called La Chalupa, Spanish for a type of fishing boat with a tendency to capsize — got its start.

Donna Kline, a fish ecologist at California State University in Monterey Bay, thinks that far from destroying a habitat, the trawl may have created a new one by etching grooves into the flat bottom.

The new analysis acknowledges that other ecosystems, such as coral reefs and kelp forests, provide valuable storm and erosion protection, key fish habitat and recreation opportunities, and thus deserve protection.

«Deep - sea fish choose habitat according to genotype, new research says.»

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Even though there may be more creatures at the base, it's not clear what their effects will be on fish or other crabs in the habitat, and how much protection the new landscape will provide,» said Dijkstra.

The fact that some mussel species are dispersed all across Europe and have given rise to different strains could be related to the ice ages and periods between them, on the one hand, but also to their fish hosts and the conquest of new habitats, on the other.

A draft plan to restore endangered habitat and fish species in the California Bay Delta east of San Francisco is incomplete and contains major scientific gaps, according to a new report out today from the National Academies» National Research Council (NRC).

Fishes» fear of sharks helps shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific, according to new research by a scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

The researchers uncovered a variety of features in the cichlid genome that enabled the fishes to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches within the Great Lakes of East Africa.

HBOI researchers and colleagues collected more than 1,500 video - polarimetry measurements from live fish from distinct habitats under a variety of viewing conditions, and have revealed for the first time that fish have an «omnidirectional» solution they use to camouflage themselves, demonstrating a new form of camouflage in nature — light polarization matching.

Some lists may be very long and will take time to load Note: A new dropdown list will appear if a country has a sub-country Agency with mission of conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

Millions of dollars have been spent by families in neighborhood pet stores buying fish, turtles, guinea pigs, hamsters, lizards and birds, along with the aquariums, habitats, cages and all the ancillary products needed to care for these new members of the household.

We don masks, snorkels and flippers and venture out offshore at Moken beach to where a trial reef restoration project is using old fishing cages to re-build the reef — already coral is reviving and fish life are visiting the perfect new habitat.

Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can arrange additional activities such as playing golf, biking through the vineyards, visiting a colony of gannet seabirds, a tour of the Cape Kidnappers sheep and cattle ranch, fly fishing on local streams and visiting a kiwi habitat in search of New Zealand's famous flightless birds.

So far, the efforts on behalf of the fishers are paying off with a high survival rate in new habitats and healthy offspring.

Sierra Pacific Industries, a family - owned lumber company based in Anderson, California, partnered with several environmental, academic and government organizations to better understand fisher habitat, restore the species to forests where they've been lost and help them expand into new areas.

The new regulations create five marine sanctuaries, collectively protecting 33 % (139 square kilometers) of the coastal area, and initiate a two - year hiatus on fishing in Codrington Lagoon to enable fish populations to rebuild and habitats to recover.

Several months ago, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced a new agreement with farmers and ranchers that requires them to «voluntarily» implement measures that will improve habitat for a variety of species.

From stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat areas to protecting sea turtles from commercial fishing gear, our victories represent a new hope for the world's oceans.

Some fish habitats off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York are protected from wind farm development.

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

Persistent drought conditions have also adversely impacted water - dependent habitats and species within and downstream of forest uplands, as evidenced by heightened mortality of a riparian tree species in central Arizona [5] and declines in number of species and densities of native fish in the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico [6], [7].

Species can become extinct when humans over hunt and over fish, pollute the environment, destroy habitats, and introduce new species to areas.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Moreover, it has been observed that OSW turbine foundations can establish new marine habitats, and, although OSW installations can impact marine shipping and radar operation, the fishing exclusion zones around OSW farms can result in expanding marine populations (Rawson and Rogers 2015).

A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey looks at more than 200 dam removals and finds that fish species and habitat can change rapidly, although examples from very large dams are rare.8 months ago

The stunning new marine preserve surrounding the Galápagos will be off - limits for fishing in a bid to conserve its unique habitat.

This partnership brought fishermen and scientists together to promote the use of new technologies and tools to map where and when to fish to avoid sensitive species (considered bycatch) and protect ocean habitat.

By 2005 the fishery was still in decline, and fishery managers announced they would seek a new set of closures to protect fish habitat.