Sentences with phrase «own coastal fisheries»

1996 - Sustainable Fisheries Act After this extension of the Magnuson - Stevens Act, coastal fisheries reduced bycatch and became more sustainable.

It is critical for understanding the ecological and cultural basis of coastal fisheries and designing sustainable management systems today,» says Ken Lertzman, another SFU co-author.

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 in Canada.

Their foraging areas were situated to river estuaries and other shallow coastal areas, which are also important for coastal fishery.

At the same time, the losses caused by seals to coastal fisheries and fish farming have increased.

If so, the authors note, the marine ecology and valuable coastal fisheries of this region could face considerable problems.

And if Canada could do that, what hope is there for the coastal fisheries of Europe, hostage to politics as well as science?

The regulations aim to rebuild coastal fisheries and ensure fishers have a livelihood that will last in perpetuity.

Unlike coastal fisheries which have suffered due to more frequent and intense cyclones, these aquaculture efforts can be sustained even in the face of climate - related challenges.

The authors suggest that locals would also make a better job of managing common pastures, coastal fisheries and water supplies.

Promoting adaptation to coastal fisheries through culture of salt tolerant fish special in coastal areas of Bangladesh.

Not exact matches

In designing the project and through the permitting process we have considered possible adverse effects to storm damage protection, marine fisheries, shellfish, and coastal birds.

Mass Audubon partners with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (DFW) on coastal waterbird protection, rare species protection, and planning for climate change, among other issues.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.

Many Brexiteers, particularly those representing coastal communities, are angry that Theresa May has agreed to stay in the Common Fisheries Policy until the end of the transition period - due to run until the end of 2020 - that will follow the UK's exit from the EU.

The NPP candidate said an NPP government would strengthen and enforce the Fisheries Act 2002 (Act 625) and establish a coastal guard unit that would collaborate with the Ghana Navy, to protect the country's territorial waters from illegal fishing practices.

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.

They are home to at least one quarter of all marine life and they generate an estimated $ 375 billion per year from fisheries, tourism and coastal protection.

«Sustainable fisheries generate billions of dollars for our economy, help keep saltwater recreational fishing as one of our nation's favorite past times, and help coastal communities remain economically resilient,» said Eileen Sobeck, assistant NOAA administrator for fisheries.

«Further, annual bleaching will greatly reduce the capacity of coral reefs to provide goods and services, such as fisheries and coastal protection, to human communities.»

«We see an accelerating decline in coastal species over the last 1,000 years, resulting in the loss of biological filter capacity, nursery habitats and healthy fisheries,» notes team member Heike Latze, also of Dalhousie.

Sitting at the edge of the Patagonian Shelf, in an area rich in marine resources, the Falklands are a unique natural laboratory in which to study sustainable fisheries, global climate change, coastal erosion, and plant and animal evolution.

A voracious warty comb jelly that infamously devastated Black Sea fisheries is now thriving in the coastal areas of the northern Adriatic.

An example of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Northwest.

Around Cape Cod, a similar array will monitor the ecosystems crucial to local fisheries for up to five years, after which the moorings will be moved to study other coastal ecosystems, including the Gulf of Mexico.

This replacement might keep the species count the same, but not necessarily provide the fisheries, tourism («algae diving» doesn't have quite the same appeal as «reef diving») or coastal protections that the original coral reef did.

It specifically dumps funding for Sea Grant, a research program that includes support for data collection and environmental monitoring — and puts that information in the hands of people who manage coastal and marine resources, including fisheries managers.

Because of their dependence on both coastal and offshore waters during their early life - stages, we think that they may be more susceptible to fisheries than previously thought, and current protective measures in Mexico may unfortunately be insufficient.»

There would be dramatic disruptions of agriculture, water resources, fisheries, coastal activity, and energy use.

The direct take of turtles has continued legally in many regions and countries, often for traditional coastal communities to support themselves or small - scale fisheries supplying local markets with meat, and sometimes shell.

Saskia Richartz, Greenpeace's European fisheries policy specialist in Brussels, says the overall reform goes in the right direction, as it makes more money available than before for a broader spectrum of fishing practices — including small - scale, coastal fishing.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission conducts stock assessments of 23 key coastal fish stocks, and completed a major benchmark stock assessment for river herring in May 2012.

The good news is that none of the institute's 200 staff members were hurt as the storm made landfall just a few dozen kilometers to the east of the coastal station, which focuses on conducting ecological, fisheries, and biogeochemistry research.

The report aims most of its criticism at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which has overall responsibility for coastal defences.

«Eastern Australian salmon is highly vulnerable because their distribution is limited to shallow coastal and estuarine waters in southern Australia and New Zealand,» said Miranda Jones, the study's lead author, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries when the study was underway.

«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.

The most recent plan provides a policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of fisheries within China's exclusive economic zone — an area of coastal water and seabed to which China claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and other economic activities.

The government is introducing a series of new programs for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, with greater traceability and accountability in marine resource management and area controls on coastal development.

Proposals to govern the actions ships take in coastal waters were submitted to the Fisheries Service of NOAA, where a «tremendous advocate» named Lindy Johnson worked.

Beyond Sea Grant, the cuts would target grants and programs «supporting coastal and marine management, research, and education,» which are a lower priority, the budget request states, than functions maintained in the budget like «surveys, charting, and fisheries management.»

This makes it difficult for scientists to study the evolution of a coastal ecosystem from its unsullied state to its current condition, says fisheries and restoration ecologist Hunter S.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

Applied research and public policy analysis focused on marine pollution, coastal zone management and coastal economies, coastal hazard management, shore protection, recreational fisheries, and development of nonmarket good methods.

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.

The mission of the Marine Sciences Program at Savannah State University is to provide research, education, and outreach programs which contribute to a vital, technically qualified, intellectually thoughtful, and ethnically diverse community of individuals capable of creatively solving problems and answering questions related to coastal and ocean ecosystem health, environmental quality, and fisheries sustainability.

Finally we are extremely grateful for the following people who participated in the coastal fieldwork for the Darwin Challenge Award: Sam Weber (Ascension Island Government), Nicola Weber (Ascension Island Government), Martin Collins (SMSG), Stephen Cartwright (SMSG), Wetjens Dimmlich (SMSG), Steve Brown (SMSG), Dion Poncet (SMSG), Juliet Hennequin (SMSG), Vladimir Laptikhovsky (SMSG), Lt Col. Simon Browning (British Forces South Atlantic Islands / SMSG), Sarah Browning (SMSG), Jerry Pierce (SMSG), Simon Morley (British Antarctic Survey), Alexander Arkhikpin (Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Department), Zhanna Shcherbich (Falkland Islands Government Fisheries Department), Peter Wirtz (Universidade do Algarve), Konstantinos Tsiamis (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research), Pieter van West (University of Aberdeen), Caz Young (Ascension Island Dive Club), and Jimmy Young (George Town, Ascension Island).

Migration and habitat use behaviors and their influence on population dynamics of coastal fishes, diadromous species, recruitment dynamics, habitat ecology, ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management

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.

It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.

The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition.