Sentences with phrase «of migratory fish»

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Shedd Aquarium's migratory fish research is made possible in part by the generosity of ArcelorMittal.

The UK has ratified the UN Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, both of which require cooperation on conservation and management.

The scientists also found that migratory freshwater fishes are at greater risk than their marine brethren, which makes sense considering that the avenues of travel available to freshwater species are much more restricted.

To expand the scientific knowledge base, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists set out to estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory birds, mammals and fishes from different regions and ecosystems around the world.

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

Swordfish are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill in contrast to the smooth, round bill of the marlins.

The tags emit tiny beeps that are recorded by underwater receivers and are designed to track many different species of fish including long - living fish such as sturgeon and migratory species of concern such as eel and lamprey.

The paper discusses the potential for hydropower sources in the region (30 gigawatts), migratory patterns of its fish, the importance of fish - friendly technology, and further studies needed to understand hydro's impact on fish of the Mekong.

Their migratory routes take them through some of the busiest commercial fishing areas along the East Coast of the United States and into Canada.

(I) under endangered species, migratory species, and other fish and wildlife programs administered by the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Land Managemfish and wildlife programs administered by the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Land ManagemFish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Bureau of Land Management;

«Let's get into some of the other reasons why we need some of this... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — and because it was made into a cat issue, I'm using cats — cites that cats and other introduced predators are responsible for much of the migratory bird loss.

Surrounding lush wetlands extends inland 30 kilometres made up of salt water tidal estuaries and creeks which are the habitat of saltwater crocodiles and a vast array of wildlife, such as birds, both migratory and native, many species of fish and animals.

Here you can find numerous species of migratory and resident birds, fishes, crustaceans, sea turtles and other wildlife.

a.s.l., where there are four beautiful lagoons, with an important flora, wild ducks, herons, gulls, migratory birds and a diversity of fish, such as trout, pejerrey (Atherine), huitas, ccarachis, ch» ià ± is and carps that cohabitate with trout and atherine pisciculture.

Mola Mola Haven Nusa Penida Dive Operators Introduce Code of Good Contact to Protect Bali Dive Sites and Rare Mola Mola Migratory Area Nusa Penida, the island just a short distance off the eastern coast of Bali is the seasonal home each year for the rare Mola Mola — a huge, docile sun fish that...

Although not the body of water that it once was, US Fish & Wildlife is has taken on the challenge to improve the lagoon to create a better habitat for migratory and aquatic birds.

The range is home to a number of important conservation targets which include, but are not limited to, at least 2 marine fish spawning aggregation sites, a breeding population of the endangered American Crocodile, and a number of threatened coastal marine habitats including the greater reef complex itself, beach forests that support several important species of resident and migratory birds and at least 2 species of marine turtles are believed to nest on the range.

He noted how healthy waterways were already being sacrificed for the power and waste disposal needs of industry and he predicted misfortune for their migratory fish.

Thanks to the work of Waldman and many other scientists, conservationists and communicators, eastern migratory fishes at least have a fighting chance.

Under the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals the hunting, fishing, or deliberate killing of the great white, basking, whale, porbeagle, shortfin and longfin mako sharks, and the spiny dogfish is prohibited.

Albert Manville, «Towers, Turbines, Power Lines, and Buildings — Steps Being Taken by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to Avoid or Minimize Take of Migratory Birds at These Structures,» Proceedings of the Fourth International Flight Conference, 2009, http://utahcbcp.org/htm/tall-structure-info/publication=12537 22.

We formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect migratory birds from the negative impacts of wind energy, asking for regulations to safeguard wildlife and reward responsible wind energy development.

Alaska is home to millions of migratory birds, hundreds of thousands of caribou, some of the world's largest salmon runs, a significant proportion of the nation's marine mammals, and half of the nation's fish catch.123

«The Service works cooperatively with companies that make all reasonable efforts to avoid killing migratory birds during design, construction and operation of industrial facilities,» said William Woody, Assistant Director for Law Enforcement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

«isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited» and supporting «endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world.»

Because the Alboran Sea is a gateway between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, it's an «essential migratory corridor» for a huge variety of marine species; it also attracts a smorgasbord of fish, making it one of Europe's most attractive (and valuable) feeding sites for dolphins and sea turtles.

These discoveries led to the formation of the Thames Migratory Fish Committee, who were tasked with reintroducing salmon and sea trout to the Thames.Now experts have finally declared the Thames clean enough for the reintroduction to begin.

The effects listed in these sections relate to fish and fish habitat, aquatic species and migratory birds, and all manner of effects on Federal lands or land in a jurisdiction outside the Province where the proposed project is located.