Sentences with phrase «ocean fisheries»

Bycatch not only depletes the health of ocean fisheries, but also costs U.S. commercial fishermen nearly $ 1 billion per year.

Mahowald said current U.S. energy policies will likely lead to large negative impacts on ocean fishery productivity, but there is hope: «Renewable energy has become more affordable, so as a country, we're moving more toward renewables,» she said.

«The unsustainable bycatch of turtles, sharks and birds in ocean fisheries, and the rapid decline of large sharks from illegal finning are major concerns worldwide.

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

Soon after his arrival at the park, Winter attended a series of community meetings aimed at slowing the decline of the local ocean fishery.

«It's time to make serious decisions about managing and protecting ocean fisheries, and China will play a pivotal role in this process,» says Naylor.

They also form the foundation of marine food webs, including those that support global ocean fisheries.

Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service published in the Federal Register its proposed rulemaking on how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the nation's preeminent environmental law, applies to federal ocean fisheries management.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

In the first major study to examine the effects of climate change on ocean fisheries, a team of researchers from UBC and Princeton University discovered that catch potential will fall 40 percent in the tropics and may increase 30 to 70 percent in high latitude regions, affecting ocean food supply throughout the world by 2055.

You can say coal is cheap until you account for the destruction of the ocean fisheries that come in part from mercury poisoning from coal, etc... So the change that was certainly articulated by Hunter Lovins in my film is to find ways to have a true market.

best evidence imo is that they our ocean fisheries are rapidly becoming depleted to the point of irreversible exhaustion.

What efforts would your administration make to improve the health of our ocean and coastlines and increase the long - term sustainability of ocean fisheries?