Sentences with phrase «of illegal fishing»

In addition, the analysis demonstrated that in Gambia — a country that experienced high levels of illegal fishing from foreign fleets — a policy that banned all forms of industrial fishing in 2015 is working and has the potential to help local fisheries.

Nana Addo's statement follows recent complaints by fishermen about the threats to their livelihood as a result of illegal fishing practices.

Not exact matches

Applications of the technology include catching illegal fishing, tracking hurricanes and typhoons, detecting forest fires and monitoring volcanoes as soon as they begin.

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

The court concluded that Chinese efforts to create man - made islands on top of atolls and reefs, as well as its large - scale fishing in the disputed areas, are illegal.

Di Franco and his Sicily - based crew of 70 sailors spend most of their time patrolling the waters around Italy, cracking down on illegal fishing and cleaning up after oil spills.

Dan - Ali, however, expressed concern of Nigeria about IUUF — Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing activities by foreign flagged ships in the nation's coastal area.

mahama at dixcove (3) Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX, the Paramount Chief of Dixcove and Acting President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, advised fisher folks against use of prohibited chemicals and illegal nets for fishing.

According to the president, these illegal fishing activities have contributed to the dwindling fortunes of fishermen along the coast in recent times.

Speaking to a group of fishermen and stakeholders in the fishing industry at Ekon near Cape Coast as part of his «Accounting to the people tour» in the Central Region, the president revealed that he had instructed the navy to arrest fishermen who engage in pair trawling and other illegal fishing activities.

For nearly 40 years, Riverkeeper has argued that Indian Point's slaughter of fish and other river life — more than 1 billion organisms a year — is illegal.

While the vaquita is the animal most critically affected by the illegal fishing nets now, the lives of many other important species are also in jeopardy from the very same nets.

The plan will be implemented in tandem with ongoing efforts to remove the threat of gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California and eliminate illegal fishing.

Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

New research has revealed the tiny minority of fishers who poach on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) think the illegal practice is justified, because they believe «everyone else is doing it.»

But the images suggest that scientists will want to take advantage of the DNB's images in multiple ways: not just to study clouds, but also to assess disasters such as power outages (such as before and after Superstorm Sandy last month), to study gas flares and estimate volumes of CO2 emissions, or to keep an eye on illegal unreported fishing (the boats emit light to draw in their stocks).

Despite legislation that banned destructive fishing, the use of such illegal methods persisted.

And the economic crises that crippled the economies of southeast Asia in the 1990s also set in motion a rapid uptick in environmentally damaging pursuits such as illegal logging and cyanide fishing, according to the World Bank.

Turvey adds: «We witnessed massive amounts of fishing daily along the river, both legal fishing (gill nets) but also large amounts of illegal rolling - hook long - lining and electrofishing, which have long been banned.

«Despite the fact that cyanide fishing is nominally illegal in virtually all Indo - Pacific countries, the high premium paid for live reef fish, weak enforcement capacities, and frequent corruption have spread the use of the poison across the entire region — home o the vast majority of the planet's coral reefs,» reports WRI.

Cyanide fishing, whereby divers crush cyanide tablets into plastic squirt bottles of sea water and puff the solution to stun and capture live coral reef fish, is widely practiced throughout Southeast Asia despite being illegal in most countries of the region.

«All these acts of construction — and allowing trawlers to fish — are illegal,» says Chhatrapati Singh, director of the Centre for Environmental Law, a local group affiliated to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Kerry further outlined the impacts of pollution from farm runoff, which causes algae blooms and dead zones in the oceans, the massive buildup of plastic waste, and illegal fishing.

Illegal fishing also continues to be a major cause of mortality, with the researchers estimating a minimum of 65,000 turtles taken from Mexico alone since the year 2000.

Illegal fishing of ornamental fish for the aquarium trade has also been reported.

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

Since the museum initiated a conservation operation last year, its vessel has succeeded in retrieving more than 900,000 linear feet of «ghost» and illegal fishing nets.

To make matters worse, much of that fishing supplies an illegal trade in wildlife parts to China.

This includes illegal shipments of fish, birds, reptiles, snakes, and coral.

«The places are just disasters,» says Craig Thompson, a wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service and lead author of a 2014 paper showing that proximity to illegal cultivation sites affects fisher mortality rates.

«We are witnessing the end of a species, if the illegal fishing continues,» said Armando Jaramillo - Legorreta of Mexico's Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) and lead author of the research describing the acoustic array and its findings.

Of 129 radio - collared Pacific fishers for which the cause of mortality could be determined over an eight - year span, poison at illegal pot farms was found to have killed 1Of 129 radio - collared Pacific fishers for which the cause of mortality could be determined over an eight - year span, poison at illegal pot farms was found to have killed 1of mortality could be determined over an eight - year span, poison at illegal pot farms was found to have killed 13.

A 2008 report from NOAA estimated that 90 percent of the aquarium fish imported into the United States were captured with cyanide or other illegal methods.

And some nations have over - or underreported catches for political reasons, or ignored illegal landings, further complicating efforts to understand how fish stocks — a key source of protein — are faring.

The MFA relies on open source data from the AIS which, while not suitable for a systematic control of potentially illegal fishing, is more accessible and offers new possibilities for research.

In late 2014, seeking to curtail those activities, the country implemented tough and controversial policies that resulted in the sinking of 318 illegal fishing boats (296 foreign - flagged), the banning of all foreign - owned and foreign - made boats from fishing in Indonesia and the restriction of transfers of fish at sea.

The European Commission proposed a ban on imports of fish from Sri Lanka for not tackling illegal fishing properly and lifted a ban on fish imports from Belize following the reform of its vessel inspection practices.

A free Web service combats illegal fishing by exposing the movements of commercial vessels to public view

«In addition to a fishing ban, Mexico, the United States, and China need to take urgent and coordinated action to stop the illegal fishing, trafficking and consumption of totoaba.»

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

A surge in illegal totoaba fishing, undermining of compensation schemes and resistance to the use of the smart fishing gear are all contributing to the vaquita's demise and create the need for a fisheries closure with stringent, year - round enforcement.

The countries in question undertake to improve fisheries governance in the region by upgrading data collection and scientific evaluation, establishing an ecosystem - based fisheries management framework and developing a culture of compliance to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, factors that affect ocean life, specifically fish species, are overfishing, illegal fishing, habitat damage, bycatch, and lack of management.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University, who are attending the conference, have found a way to predict illegal fishing activities to help authorities better protect marine reserves.

But they have continued to fall well short of these goals likely because of a combination of capture and killing by Fish and Wildlife Service and illegal poaching.

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Illegal fishing is a major threat to the sustainability of the world's fisheries.

The ragtag crew of a fishing boat takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea, in this tense high - seas adventure co-scripted by South Korean genre - movie guru Bong Joon - ho.

For concerns about cruelty to wild animals or poaching (illegal trapping, fishing or hunting), visit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website:

Detecting the illegal use of cyanide in fishing is being studied.