Sentences with phrase «shark fishing in»

While shark fishing in international waters (inexplicably) remains unrestricted, there may yet be some hope for the beleaguered animals: a newly proposed U.N. resolution would call for immediate catch limits and for a complete ban on shark finning.

There was a documentary about Japanese shark fishing in the Caribbean and it showed how they were just cutting off the fins and throwing the carcasses into the water right in port with no one stopping them even though it was illegal.

The Marshall Islands, a group of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has legally banned all shark fishing in their waters — all 768,547 square miles of them — making it the largest shark sanctuary in the world.

Not exact matches

The shark sport - fishing industry grew tremendously after the film «Jaws» was released in 1975.

The numbers are getting lower each year as more sharks die as by - catch in fishing operations and get hunted for their dorsal fins.

A study in Recife, Brazil found that using specialized fishing gear to catch potentially dangerous sharks and release them (still alive) far away from swimmers and surfers led to a 97 % decline in shark encounters.

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.

He is either sealed forever in a steel container, with a signal producing gadget beaming it's location to a monitor somewhere, or he was shark bait, and was the hors d'oeuvres for some fish last night.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

Furthermore, sensory receptors for these chemicals have been found in all vertebrates except cartilaginous fishes such as sharks.

40 % of what's caught globally is discarded, in the form of undersized fish, endangered sharks, turtles, and dolphins — left to die, or already dead;

These fish that the Arsenal sharks manage to rip off so well each season with little deserved value in return.

Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a maIn the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a main the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a main patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

In Theaters: Jackass: Number Two Johnny Knoxville and the boys return for more of their own unique brand of funand games, including shark fishing (using a human as bait, natch) andboa - constrictor wrestling.

She pretty much said he may be the smartest fish in the sea but he lives in a world of sharks and if you're not a shark you will get bullied.

It's actually located in the Concord Mills Mall complex, so if I could've dragged myself away from BOGO just a bit sooner, we could have checked out the sharks, stingrays, sea stars, sea horses, jellyfish, and thousands of colorful fish, and the interactive touch pool.

You should also avoid any sushi made with fish high in mercury content, like swordfish, shark, or king mackerel.

Some types of fish: fish including marlin, shark and swordfish are high in mercury and could harm your baby's health.

In the study, scientists documented a lemon shark's ability to expel a large metal fish stringer out of its body cavity over the course of 435 days.

Any fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico, which includes tilefish, shark, swordfish and king mackerel.

These include shark, mackerel, tile fish and other fish high in mercury content.

Perfect example of a big fish in a little pond that gets gobbled up when moved in with the sharks....

In Fishes of the Open Ocean, Pepperell writes that historic accounts tell of thresher sharks attacking whales, and notes that while these stories seem highly unlikely, they do make for fascinating reading.

When sharks prowl shallow waters, fish quit foraging and hide — sparing seaweed from being grazed in those areas.

Marine ecologist Boris Worm of the Institute for Marine Science in Kiel, Germany, tackled the problem with Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and others as part of a long - term project that has documented dramatic declines in fish and shark species worldwide (ScienceNOW, 14 May).

During the 60 million years before the die - off, various types of fish and sharks had grown steadily in size, with some fish reaching the length of a school bus.

Although the authors don't know for sure whether shark numbers have gone up, they speculate that the population could have been boosted by fishing discards before all fishing in the area was banned in 2006.

That's because the dogfish, a type of shark, sits high in the ocean food chain and therefore accumulates mercury from the smaller fish it eats.

While observing young sharks in the lab, researchers at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, United Kingdom, serendipitously discovered that the fish might use their toothy tushes instead.

Local fish may visit the cleaners every day, and even wide - ranging beasts like sharks will occasionally drop in.

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Axel Meyer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany, says that sharks, fish, and other aquatic creatures have penislike appendages that evolved from finlike structures that had nothing to do with limbs.

One particular historical incident included in the journal article described how the sharks were attracted to blood from alligators feeding on fish.

Heavily armored spiny sharks, among the earliest jawed fish, swam in Permian seas.

By observing reef communities in Fiji's Votua Marine Reserve, Rasher and his team discovered that sharks do in fact influence plant growth on the reefs — by scaring the herbivorous fish away from eating them.

Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»

The records covered longline fishing in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and included nine species of sharks.

In addition to a few ray - finned fish, some sharks and tetrapods survived the Hangenberg event.

In just the past 40 years, overfishing, destructive trawling, and poor management of the seas have depleted 75 percent of our commercially important fish stocks, with almost one - third of them — including tuna, marlin, and shark — under particular threat.

So far, the information has been cited in more than 50 scientific publications; it has helped researchers analyze shark population declines and identify two new species of colorful fish — the Florida barred hamlet (Hypoplectrus floridae) and the contoy hamlet (H. ecosur).

Carefully designed marine reserves and a reduction in fishing, they write, «could hold promise for safeguarding sharks and other large pelagic predators from further declines and ecological extinction.»

Adding a particular metal to fishing lines could create an electrical field in seawater that would keep sharks from stealing bait and winding up entangled themselves.

Australian researchers used computerized tomography scans of the head of a great white shark accidentally killed in a commercial fishing net (great whites are a protected species) to construct a model of the animal's jaw musculature.

As luck would have it, the perfect opportunity came in the form of a unique interaction between fishers and whale sharks that occurs in Cendrawasih Bay.

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«If sleeper sharks are involved in predation, it creates something of a dilemma,» said Horning, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «In recent years, groundfish harvests in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lionin predation, it creates something of a dilemma,» said Horning, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «In recent years, groundfish harvests in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lionin Newport, Ore. «In recent years, groundfish harvests in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lionIn recent years, groundfish harvests in the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lionin the Gulf of Alaska have been limited in some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lionin some regions to reduce the potential competition for fish that would be preferred food for Steller sea lions.

Losing a lot of corals has a broader ecological impact: species that eat the corals lose their food source; fish that would hide in the corals become more susceptible to predation from sharks.

Sharks» skeletons are made of cartilage, placing them along with rays and skates in a group of jawed vertebrates called cartilaginous fish.

The sleeper sharks caught up in the nets are usually comparatively small; larger sharks are big enough to tear the fishing gear and are rarely landed.