Sentences with phrase «salmon fisheries»

The Agency claimed that these conditions were necessary for the protection of salmon fisheries in the River Wye, a Special Area of Conservation.

This water is nearly fully utilized for irrigation, salmon fisheries and power generation.

Alaskan River Riches Southeast Alaska has one of the healthiest salmon fisheries in the world, thanks to strict regulation and bountiful wild rivers for fish to spawn.

They have one of the biggest salmon fisheries in the world and, I have to say, they are mighty tasty.

Stay informed about what's happening in the salmon marketplace and ways you can help us protect and restore our wild salmon fisheries.

Now, a novel approach that uses sound to track individual salmon has offered the first map of their saltwater trek — knowledge researchers say it will improve the management of salmon fisheries.

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests Arctic waters are already seeing the effects of acidification, with potentially dire consequences to Alaska's rich crab and salmon fisheries

In places where population diversity is much lower — such as the Sacramento River in California and the once - mighty Columbia in Washington State — salmon fisheries have declined precipitously and go through frequent boom and bust cycles.

Over 11,500 of those jobs during peak season stem from commercial salmon fishery, valued at approximately $ 300 million annually.

At that time the value of a year's salmon fishery in B.C. was $ 3 million.

The Alaska salmon fishery is a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fishery.

The Alaska salmon fishery is touted as one of the best in the world.

Perhaps the hardest hit and most talked about salmon fishery in the world — California's Sacramento River Chinook run — has been off - limits to fishers for two years now because of the low volume of wild fish returning to spawn.

Before pursuing my PhD, I co-produced two environmental documentaries about mining development proposed at the headwaters of the world's largest remaining sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game carefully manages the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery to ensure that enough fish are allowed to escape the fishery and run up river to sustain the population.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has completed compilation of preliminary values for the 2013 commercial salmon fishery.

The mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay is projected to be the largest in North America, generating billions of tons of mine waste and industrializing important salmon habitat in the heart of the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery.

In a recent letter opposing the coal export terminals, the tribe stated that the terminals «would significantly degrade an already fragile and vulnerable crab, herring and salmon fishery, dealing a devastating blow to the economy of the fisher community.»

Of course there are gobs of money at stake, but the truth is that it could become the biggest mine of its type, as well as the world's biggest dam, smack in the middle of the world's largest salmon fishery.

Not exact matches

Nova Scotia fisheries officials are investigating after a winter storm damaged an aquaculture pen in Shelburne Harbour, apparently releasing some salmon.

We're about to get a big box of salmon from a sustainable fishery outside of Bellingham and I'm trying to figure out what to do with this stuff!

The Greenland fishery, the salmon disease that started in Ireland in 1963 and has now spread to the rivers of Scotland and North Wales, with pollution and water abstraction, will kill the run in the end.

Up to 10,000 years old, the bones belonged to primarily Pacific herring, not the iconic salmon or any other fish, during a time when Indigenous fisheries reigned.

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.

Diversity within the species creates what the scientists call a «portfolio effect,» named for its resemblance to a diversified investment portfolio: Some salmon stocks do better under certain conditions, whereas others thrive under different constraints, but the fishery as a whole remains stable.

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.

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.

For at least 50 years Alaska's Bristol Bay has been one of the most valuable fisheries in the U.S.. On average, fishermen net about 25 million sockeye salmon annually in the bay's chilly waters.

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.

FERC is required to consult with NOAA Fisheries Service to ensure that continued dam operation does not impede recovery of Atlantic salmon.

The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) uses fisheries stock assessment data in its annual scientific advice concerning the fishing quotas for the Baltic salmon.

In a move that is certain to provoke a bitter battle in Congress, the US National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed listing three west coast populations of coho salmon as threatened.

Commercial fishermen harvest a wide variety of animals, ranging from tuna, cod, carp, and salmon to shrimp, krill, lobster, clams, squid, and crab, in various fisheries for these species.

The research builds on earlier work by the Auke Bay Laboratories, part of NOAA Fisheries» Alaska Fisheries Science Center, which found much reduced survival of pink salmon exposed as embryos to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from crude oil.

Reduced stocking of Chinook salmon, however, would still support a substantial population of this highly desirable recreational salmon species, which is a large contributor to the Great Lakes multi-billion-dollar recreational fishery.

But Alaska salmon falls short and lags behind some of the world's fisheries in how it benefits local fishermen, processing workers and nearby rural communities, according to a new assessment that ranks the vitality of a fishery by looking at its economic and community benefits as well as its ecological health.

The next year, Paul Christman, a fisheries biologist with the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, found proof that Atlantic salmon were spawning: He located six new gravel nests sheltering the bright red eggs of the Atlantic salmon as far as 18 miles upstream.

One project that AquaGen started up in 2005 was a collaboration with the Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) to make a precise map of the genetic markers that make certain salmon individuals resistant to the IPN (infectious pancreatic necrosis) virus.

Sockeye salmon numbers in British Columbia's Fraser River were at a 50 year low this past season, forcing closure for the third year in a row of what had been an abundant and reliable fishery.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says cormorants in the area consume about 11 million baby salmon and steelhead per year — causing what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates as a loss of $ 2.6 million to the $ 50 - million Columbia River fishery.

In fact, we're eating more seafood than ever and more of it comes from the least sustainable fisheries: shrimp, tuna and salmon.

Humpbacks have been spotted feeding on baby salmon bred for release into the wild to restock fisheries for the first time, competing with fishermen

Ongoing disagreement among scientists over how to sustain high survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last year.

«The message is pretty clear that these sockeye salmon are highly adapted to the energetic demands of their upstream migration,» says Brian Riddell, a fisheries scientist who heads the Pacific Salmon Foundation in Vancouver.

«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.

«I hope this will highlight to fisheries decision - makers the ecological benefits of robust populations of spawning salmon,» says Nelson.

In 2008, MSC commissioned DNA testing of three certified fisheries: Alaskan salmon, Alaskan pollock, and toothfish from South Georgia.

Scientists at WSU and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service analyzed combinations of various pesticides to learn how they would affect juvenile salmon.

Julie also led a Collaborative Fisheries Research project in which scientific data on the diet of salmon is collected in partnership with local recreational and commercial fishers, providing data to help understand the recent salmon population crash (Thayer et al. 2013).

The salmon populations once showed a strong portfolio that has become weaker in recent decades, including a recent fishery collapse due to all sub-populations declining simultaneously.