Sentences with phrase «of drift nets»

In November, the World Conservation Union warned that more than 40 percent of shark and ray species in the Mediterranean were threatened with extinction because of intense fishing pressure, including the continued use of drift nets, which kill many sharks and rays even when they are not the target of the fishing effort.

The legal maximum length of drift nets in waters under the jurisdiction of the European Union is 2.5 kilometres.

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It is assumed that since the fourteenth century, the adoption of new fishing methods (such as the tonnara, a sort of drift net mainly used for tuna fishing) in the Western Mediterranean, their spread to southern Italy [261], [262], and their introduction to the Adriatic in the seventeenth century [261], [263] increase fishing catches.

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His was blocked by Reimer but the puck bounced off Reimer's body and drifted behind him into the corner of the net.

Thompson drifted in links limbo, just above the family safety net, until joining the Senior tour in the fall of» 89.

He despised the new sort, the gangs who worked the big river in low - water summer conditions, driving up from the industrial cities of south Wales, putting on scuba suits to drive salmon and sea - run trout into fixed trammel nets, or using cyanide bombs to suffocate the fish and send them drifting downstream to a collection point.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

81: Diabate drifts past a couple of red and white shirts on the left, but with the opportunity to pick out a team - mate, he flashes a shot, selfishly, into the side - netting.

Delaney nearly doubled his tally of own goals for the night on 32 minutes as he accidentally turned a Martial cross towards his own net but his blushes were spared as the ball drifted the wrong side of the post.

Fiona Sullivan's close - range strike then doubled Notts County's lead as Birmingham began to drift out of the reckoning, but Chelsea's fortunes also took a downward turn when Jill Scott's 24th - minute drive flew into the net for a Man City opener.

With the game looking to drift into extra time the Farnborough keeper flapped at yet another cross only for the ball to cannon of a defender and set up a simple chance for Trevor Morley to net the winner; to the palpable relief of the Upton Park crowd.

The European Commission, however, wants to take things further and to restrict the use of «all drift net fishing activities causing ecological difficulties», and hopes to get all such nets phased out by 1997.

The so - called «walls of death» drift nets used in the Pacific, which can sometimes extend for 50 kilometres, inadvertently catch large numbers of whales, seabirds and unwanted fish.

The French in turn poured scorn on the Spanish for using an archaic technology, and claimed that their drift nets, which have a mesh of 180 millimetres and, until the European Union's restrictions of 2.5 kilometres came into force, were on average 7 kilometres long, do not kill significant numbers of dolphins.

WWF will also continue supporting the retrieval of lost or abandoned «ghost» nets, many of them illegal, which drift aimlessly and continue to entangle and kill vaquitas and other marine species.

Restrictions on use of drift gill nets, which have a high rate of bycatch, have improved the survival of juvenile sharks.

To see the total liabilities rise by $ 4.5 trillion in fiscal 2010 isn't unreasonable, when one sees that the net debt has gone up by $ 2.0 trillion, and add in the natural drift of underfunded entitlement plans in a slow economy, where unemployment is high.

Watch the sunset through the fishing nets of Kochi, stretch out on white - sand beaches, drift through the tranquil backwaters and rise at dawn to see the sunrise.

Artists Cast a Net for Safer Oceans - Bay Nature Magazine This weekend, The Marine Mammal Center in Marin launches a new art exhibit and website aimed at a problem most of us barely know exists: Ghost nets that drift in the oceans snagging sea life and wreaking havoc, maybe for years.

Up until the early 1990s dolphins were highly impacted by gill net and drift net fisheries, many of which are now permanently closed.

On albums like 2008's critically lauded Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, her ghostly vocals drift like wisps of smoke through fractured moonbeams; lines of guitar emerge like discarded nets from the surf, tumbling back into a rolling sea of soft noise shortly after they appear.

Purse seiner behavior is distinct in that vessels move very quickly in a circle around a school of fish to set the net, then move very slowly for a period of time, drifting as they haul up their nets.

In November 2006, after years of campaigning and negotiating by NASF, Ireland finally announced that it would buy out all of the country's salmon drift - netting licenses.

For T2, the net effect of the drift is to introduce small artificial changes.

There are many of these nets in the ocean, making up 10 percent of plastic waste, and they can drift for years, entangling an average of 30 to 40 sea creatures per net.

And while it may seem like Orman, who now has an estimated net worth of over $ 30 million, was always on the road to success, she actually drifted until her late twenties.

Digital Storm's PC netted a strong 18,596 on the Geekbench 3 overall performance test, surpassing the Core i7 - 6700K - powered Drift (17,003) but coming up short of our 21,601 gaming desktop average.