Sentences with phrase «set catch quotas»

«ICCAT has consistently set catch quotas for the East Atlantic and Mediterranean stock above levels recommended by its scientists and the failure of its management measures is demonstrated by the continuously decreasing population,» Monaco government officials say in their application.

ICCAT members routinely ignore the advice of their own scientific committee and set catch quotas at double recommended levels.

These meetings have in the past largely ignored scientific advice, setting catch quotas at levels that many scientists believe will ultimately cause tuna populations to crash.

Not exact matches

The tiny nation unilaterally set its quotas very high and started catching more fish.

The commission's scientifically derived proposals on sustainable catch levels are routinely revised upwards when EU environment ministers meet, traditionally in late December, to set quotas for the year following.

According to Richard L. Haedrich, an ichthyologist writing in a recent issue of Natural History, catch quotas for deep - sea fishes were set «essentially by guesswork, relying on... knowledge of shallow - water species.

Under the whaling convention, governments are free to set their own scientific catch quotas — even in a sanctuary — so Japan can be expected to kill up to 440 minke whales next season.

The Grand Banks fell prey to the usual list of suspects: a government that set fishing limits higher than scientists advised; fishermen who cheated on catch quotas; and the lack of restraint that plagues all «open access» fisheries («if we...

The EU sets quota limits for each Member State to catch bluefin tuna, which is highly sought - after in Japan where the market price can reach $ 500 per kilo.

One form of catch shares is «individual transferable quotas» (ITQs), which give individual fishermen ownership rights stake in a set percentage of a fishery's overall catch quota.