Sentences with phrase «on ocean fisheries»

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.

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.

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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.

These amounts include cuts to Environment Canada, and those imposed on environment related programs at Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada, Parks Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Transport Canada.

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.

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.

«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.

As in years past, Our Ocean 2016 will tackle key issues including marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oOcean 2016 will tackle key issues including marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceanocean.

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.

«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.

The conference will address issues such as marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceans.

Many of the projects were led by Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists, and Kelly says that their fate hinges on «what work DFO allows them to do this summer.»

Cashion is a researcher for the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecFisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecfisheries on marine ecosystems.

«Based on the data that they have, even though it's circumstantial, it's a nice story,» says Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who was not involved with the study.

Ocean acidification expected to accompany climate change may slow development and reduce survival of the larval stages of Dungeness crab, a key component of the Northwest marine ecosystem and the largest fishery by revenue on the West Coast, a new study has found.

Little was known of the life cycle of internal waves that can reach as high as a 100 - story building yet barely cause a ripple on the ocean's surface, said Harper Simmons, an oceanographer with the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Scieocean's surface, said Harper Simmons, an oceanographer with the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean ScieOcean Sciences.

Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after an extreme marine heat wave from about 2014 to 2016 disrupted the California Current Ecosystem and shifted many species beyond their traditional range, according to a new report from NOAA Fisheries» two marine laboratories on the West Coast.

«Constant assault» anticipated Rubio will chair the oceans, atmosphere and fisheries subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-- the agency that focuses on the health of the oceans and atmosphere.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on fish and fisheries in the tropics.

On 21st February, the «World Ocean Review 2 - The future of fish — the fisheries of the future» (WOR 2) was launched in the presence of the contributing partners.

The Marine Sciences Laboratory's, Sequim Marine Research Operations is located on Sequim Bay in Washington's Puget Sound, offers various research capabilities in ecotoxicology, analytical chemistry, wetland and coastal ecology, fisheries, ocean processes, remote sensing, biotechnology and remediation.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

OTTAWA — August 11, 2017 — The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) congratulates Transport Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on its joint decision to impose a mandatory slowdown order on large ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from fatal ship strikes.

Media release: Conservation groups are putting the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on notice as the groups race to secure protection for endangered Southern Resident killer whales...

The National Marine Sanctuary Program has partnered with NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources to pass on the message of Ocean Etiquette.

As the largest regional centre on the North Island, Port Hardy has offices for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Canadian Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Service BC.

Marine protected areas, although the picture is complicated, have the potential to serve as nurseries sustaining fisheries for nearby communities dependent on ocean resources.

The new U.S. Directive highlights the possibility of several areas where initiatives may be warranted, such as international agreements or arrangements on issues such as Arctic tourism, fisheries management, and shipping in an ice - diminished Arctic Ocean.

Knowing where and when a given species is being taken from the ocean allows for a much better assessment of fisheries management on a global scale.

Here's a Canadian Fisheries and Oceans report on conditions off of British Columbia in 2004.

Another important book on fisheries and oceans is «The Unnatural History of the Sea,» by Callum Roberts.

Coastal communities in these vulnerable states are at high economic risk from ocean acidification due to their dependence on shelled mollusk fisheries, which bring in a billion of dollars annually.

Refuting lower - resolution results, high - resolution ocean modelling has predicted climate change will have little impact on western Pacific tuna fisheries in the 2060s.

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The Ocean Conservancy is a non-profit advocacy group, which was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Its goal is to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and works on many projects such as sustainable fisheries, creating marine protected areas and better marine planOcean Conservancy is a non-profit advocacy group, which was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Its goal is to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and works on many projects such as sustainable fisheries, creating marine protected areas and better marine planocean ecosystems and works on many projects such as sustainable fisheries, creating marine protected areas and better marine planning.

2008 On June 10, the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Subcommittee Chair Madeleine Bordallo (D - GU), holds an oversight hearing on the 60th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Santiago, Chile from June 23 to June 27, 200On June 10, the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Subcommittee Chair Madeleine Bordallo (D - GU), holds an oversight hearing on the 60th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Santiago, Chile from June 23 to June 27, 200on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Subcommittee Chair Madeleine Bordallo (D - GU), holds an oversight hearing on the 60th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Santiago, Chile from June 23 to June 27, 200on the 60th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Santiago, Chile from June 23 to June 27, 2008.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

«It is all extremely uncertain, and depends on ocean - circulation patterns,» says Michaela Aschan, a fisheries professor from the University of Tromso.

Fifth, warming of the oceans may have serious impacts on fisheries productivity, and ocean acidification from the carbon dioxide humanity is pouring into the atmosphere may have even more serious consequences for the harvest from the sea.

This reporting takes the form of annual updates on BC's weather conditions, contributions to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans» annual State of the Pacific Ocean Report and occasional PCIC newsletter pieces when unusual weather strikes.

I was working on a brief describing the impacts of climate change in our state of Oregon, knowing that shellfish hatcheries collapsed between 2004 and 2009 due to ocean acidification and someday soon, our local supply of oysters will be gone, as those fishery operations close shop.

Washington, D.C. — April 16, 2014 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congress, proudly endorses the Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, Senator Mark Begich (D - AK) for reelection in Novemberoceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congress, proudly endorses the Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, Senator Mark Begich (D - AK) for reelection in NovemberOceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, Senator Mark Begich (D - AK) for reelection in November 2014.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Preliminary evidence suggests ocean acidification will have negative effects on corals, shellfish, and other marine life, with wide - ranging consequences for ecosystems, fisheries, and tourism.

HEARING ON The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Ocean Acidification before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate April 22, 20ON The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Ocean Acidification before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate April 22, 20on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate April 22, 20on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate April 22, 2010

The submission for the Atlantic is the result of a decade - long scientific and technical undertaking by experts from the departments of Natural Resources, Fisheries and Oceans, and Foreign Affairs, and fulfills Canada's legal obligation pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in respect of this area.

Steven Gaines's research focuses on marine ecology and conservation, sustainable fisheries, the design of marine reserves, and the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems.