Sentences with phrase «on ocean fishes»

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

Not exact matches

When Saildrone can connect all of its data points, it will be able to predict natural disasters, provide real - time weather conditions on the ocean, and manage fishing areas and shipping lanes.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

Saildrone offers government researchers and private companies more easily accessible data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.

STEP 5 Sometimes the cable is left to sink to the ocean floor and rest on the sandy bottom, but for the best protection from ship anchors, fishing nets and shark attacks, a sea plow or remotely operated vehicle may be used to bury cable between 1.5 and 3 metres below the bottom.

This may seem like some useless information when an ocean's worth of water is pushing in on them from every side, but sharks use this ability to figure out where other fish, both predators and prey, are.

This is in contrast to other, sunnier reports on Arctic melt, which detail the possible «good» this melt will have — opening up shipping lanes, increasing fishing, and even allowing us to access minerals, natural gas, and oil in the ocean bed.

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

Something fishy: Wired reports on how a «soft» robotic fish invented by MIT aims to save the world's oceans.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

It is near the ocean that the giant cat fish causes tsunamis by beating his tail on the ocean floor.

It won't cost you an arm and a leg, and if you have a good connection to your local fish monger, you can capitalize on the freshest ocean catch available.

I also love fishing (lake, stream or ocean) so I do that whenever I get the (seemingly rare) opportunity — usually at our river house on the Merced River where we keep a nice little stash of canoes and fishing poles.

Often seen bucking the ocean with a basic propane grill (safer and more userfriendly than wood or charcoal in cramped spaces) lashed to their boats, these hard - working men and women are quick to serve up stories of salmon barbecue, with hefty sides of philosophy on the choicest species of fish, the best cut, the perfect marinade or sauce, and trademark techniques.

On average, 8.8 million tons of plastic get dumped into the oceans every year and fish and marine species easily consume plastic particles in addition to other toxic substances.

Because of high stocking densities, the fish on ocean - based farms are often affected by parasites and diseases, which they pass to fish living near the farms.

And now with the Pacific Ocean totally contaminated with radiation for over 2 years and still running i have cut down on our fish intake.

The Earth's oceans are being emptied at a dizzying rate, and the aquaculture that has sprung up to replace wild fish on our plates comes with its own set of problems.

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.

Then, in February of this year, he went back to Costa Rica to concentrate on fishing the ocean and hooked up with four fish, any one of which would have given him the title.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

These hitchhikers — including crustaceans, mollusks, and fish — rode debris «rafts» through ocean currents over thousands of kilometers before finally washing ashore on Hawaiian and North American coastlines, sometimes years later.

«The problem is that pirates use skiffs — small, fast fishing boats with a very low profile on the surface of the ocean,» says Giacomo Persi Paoli, a piracy analyst with the RAND Corporation in Cambridge, UK.

Going fishing can be a whole lot of fun, but just fishing on the side of the lake or river isn't always as much fun though you may want to avoid anything billed the best inflatable boat for ocean.

Of nearly 300 living animal and protist species documented on the debris, which crossed the Pacific Ocean following Japan's destructive 2011 tsunami, researchers analyzed in detail 237 species, which include larger invertebrates and two fish.

For every species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian on land, there is a species of bony fish in the ocean.

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.

Juveniles lose the bright, plankton - filtering gills seen on this individual when they mature and descend into some of the deepest depths of any known fish, often more than 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) beneath the ocean surface.

If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres — giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly — you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man - of - war — and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.

We use a lot of the world's oceans for harvesting fish and so on.

Based on modeling results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which predicted that Pacific Ocean temperatures would rise by 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years, a Canadian and U.S. team of scientists examined the distributional changes of 28 species of fish including salmon, herring, certain species of sharks, anchovies, sardines and more northern fish like pollock.

Organisms that surprisingly survived the harsh 7,000 - kilometer journey across the Pacific Ocean on 634 items of tsunami debris ranged from 52 - centimeter - long fish (a Western Pacific yellowtail amberjack) to microscopic single - celled protists.

This includes places like parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean where small animals like nematodes and specially adapted fish live on the fringes of habitability, subsisting in waters where oxygen concentrations can be only about 1 % of normal surface water levels.

Previous studies have documented the impact of plastic debris on more than 660 marine species — from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined for the seafood market — but none have quantified the worldwide amount entering the ocean from land.

Species: Great frigatebird, Fregata minor Habitat: Breeds on tropical islands in the southern Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans; feeds on fish and squid in the open ocean

«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.

Reporting from Ny - A ̊lesund — a research base in Norway, 1000 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle — Kintisch describes how «[m] eter - tall waves and driving snow are common here in the Svalbard archipelago, where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet, but that doesn't deter [Markus] Brand, a graduate student from the Alfred Wegener Institute... in Helgoland, Germany,» from pursuing his research on local fish populations.

Commercial overfishing damages fish populations, marine habitats and ecosystems — consequences that also affect people who depend on the ocean for food and work.

On a visit to the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, Delaney mentioned undersea networks to physical oceanographer Rick Thomson, who proposed adding acoustic sensors to measure the movement of schools of fish.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

Based on the unique fish fauna observed from a manned submersible on a southern Caribbean reef system in Curaçao, Smithsonian explorers defined a new ocean - life zone, the rariphotic, between 130 and 309 meters (about 400 to 1,000 feet) below the surface.

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.

«We used these estimates to map natural extinction risk in modern oceans, and compare it with recent human pressures on the ocean such as fishing, and climate change to identify the areas most at risk,» says Professor Pandolfi.

It begins eating fish from the age of six months or so, sometimes grabbing large prey and rubbing it on the ocean floor or smacking it on the water's surface to break it into bite - size bits.

President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off - limits to commercial fishing and deep - sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday.

The newfound population of snailfish, which feed on tiny shrimp that scavenge detritus on the ocean floor, are believed to be the deepest living fish ever recorded.

Are gangs of orcas feasting on protected seals, sea lions, and otters because we fished their normal food supply out of the oceans?

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.