Sentences with phrase «of ocean fisheries»

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

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.»

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

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.

Not exact matches

After a two - year - long push by the Coast Guard to phase out the last of the lighthouse keepers prompted public outcry, the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans scrapped the plan.

Nearly 40 percent of the world's offshore petroleum is produced in the Indian Ocean, which also has rich mineral deposits and fisheries.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, for example, presided over the collapse of Atlantic cod stocks in the 1980s.

Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.

Lee Byeong - gon, an official at South Korea's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, said the government was working on establishing three sites for eLoran test operations by 2019 with further ones to follow after that.

Before Fisheries and Oceans hired a librarian to dispose of the library's contents, the collection duly reflected the importance of freshwater in the nation's geography, say scientists.

In a move that stunned and appalled scientists around the world the Harper government laid off as many as 40 scientists associated with the legendary program working out the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Winnipeg's office.

Last week the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba.

But most of the vitriol was reserved for the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the federal body entrusted with protecting fish and fish habitat.

A crucial UN fisheries meeting is happening in 48 hours — and it could be the turning point in the fight against senseless ocean destruction, but only if enough of us speak out now.

Rubio's works to be a friend to the ocean year - round with a majority of its seafood being sourced from sustainable fisheries, recycling plastic and glass bottles in restaurants whenever possible, and using eco-friendly plates and to - go containers.

Wild Selections ® gives back to the oceans by donating 13 cents from every can sold — a total of $ 1 million by 2018 — to World Wildlife Fund marine conservation and fishery improvement projects.

The Ideal Fish believes there is room for all forms of seafood production - sustainable, responsible wild fisheries, ocean cage, inland lagoon and recirculating aquaculture, and that they all have a place in this country's seafood supply chain.

Leading scientists give their thoughts on the world's relentless pursuit of fish, and how consumers and the commercial fisheries sector are emptying oceans across the world of life.

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

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

«Consumption in the ocean is also a significant source of mortality, but has been largely unmeasured until now,» said Chasco, a National Marine Fisheries Service - Sea Grant Population Dynamics Fellow in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences.

The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) meeting at Kobe III manage tuna fisheries in 91 % of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment Group, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC.

The Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF) program can place applicants in any one of the 13 governmental departments or institutions that participate in the program, such as Agriculture Canada, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Ocean, National Research Council, and Natural Resources Canada, to name just a few.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

Overall, the animations will help stewards of ocean life think about underwater sound in three dimensions, says Greg Silber, coordinator of recovery activities for endangered large whales at the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Fisheries management of the ocean, and therefore biology, is also of great importance because the Australian Antarctic Territory covers two - thirds of the Antarctic.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatOcean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

However, says Robert Dev - lin, a molecular biologist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a government agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, «containment is not 100 percent — some of them will escape.»

Global warming could seriously mess with fisheries in a few ways: Carbon dioxide in the air contributes to ocean acidification, sea level rise could change the dynamics of fisheries, and cold water fish like salmon could be pushed out by warming streams.

«Even if we were to set very optimistic rates and raise the amount of vegetable protein in the feed, the pressure on fisheries and fish stocks would increase enormously and likely cause their collapse,» says co-author Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.

In fact, government scientists from Fisheries and Oceans Canada speculated in a paper published this year in Fisheries Oceanography that the Kasatoshi eruption might be linked to the abundance of returning salmon in 2010.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

Led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a team of scientists tracked returning Fraser River sockeye to see whether the genetic activity of those that successfully spawned differed from the activity of those that perished prematurely en route.

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans also has to juggle an immense number of stakeholders and their needs when managing the Fraser sockeye: coastal fisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries iFisheries and Oceans also has to juggle an immense number of stakeholders and their needs when managing the Fraser sockeye: coastal fisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries ifisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries ifisheries in Canada.

The decision is laudable in that it acknowledges beluga sturgeon is threatened with extinction, but it doesn't go nearly far enough toward protecting them, says fisheries scientist Ellen Pikitch, director of the University of Miami's Pew Institute for Ocean Science and lead scientist of Caviar Emptor.

In the first large - scale attempt to track fish with an acoustic tracking array on the sea floor, David Welch, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and his colleagues deployed a line of receivers on the sea floor, spaced roughly 1 km apart, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — In a good year, squid fishers haul up to 300,000 tons of squid out of the South Atlantic ocean, one of the world's largest squid fisheries.

The Oceans Chapter of Agenda 21 from the Earth Summit in Rio makes a «commitment to take into account traditional knowledge and the interests of local small - scale artisanal fisheries and indigenous people».

Yet in 2016 Fisheries and Oceans Canada wrote in a report there was an «extreme» risk of Asian carp species establishing populations in three of the five great lakes within 50 years, despite millions of dollars spent by the U.S. government to build aquatic barriers and promote harvest programs.

«It gives us a real jump start in knowing what to be looking for,» says Steve Ferguson, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada who led a survey of traditional knowledge on killer whales in Nunavut waters.

Now the chemistry of the entire ocean was shifting, imperiling coral reefs, marine creatures at the bottom of the food chain, and ultimately the planet's fisheries.

Fisheries are «the ultimate canary in the coal mine of ocean acidification,» says Brad Warren, the former editor and publisher of Pacific Fishing magazine, who recently launched the nonprofit Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to encourage seafood enterprises to confront the problem through policy initiatives.

As the temperature and acidity of a test tank climb, diatoms that dominate the cold northern oceans fall off steeply in number — an ominous sign, given that they currently support by far the richest fisheries in the world.

«It's a huge lab experiment, but there are no controls,» says Harriet Perry, a fisheries biologist at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory marine - science centre in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Oceans are also an economic driver and a source of protein - rich food, but unfortunately, Kerry added, excess carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans, and that negatively affects marine life and fishOceans are also an economic driver and a source of protein - rich food, but unfortunately, Kerry added, excess carbon dioxide acidifies the oceans, and that negatively affects marine life and fishoceans, and that negatively affects marine life and fisheries.

«This paper is significant because it identifies a link between ocean conditions and the magnitude of the toxic bloom in 2015 that resulted in the highest levels of domoic acid contamination in the food web ever recorded for many species,» said co-author Kathi Lefebvre, a marine biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

Judy Skog, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research, said the findings should be incorporated into decisions about how we manage ocean resources like fisheries.