Sentences with phrase «shellfish beds»

A serious oil spill would devastate an already - stressed marine environment and risks collapses in the remaining salmon stocks and further contamination of shellfish beds, wiping out Indigenous fishing and harvesting rights.

This authority lets the EPA put a stop to projects that will cause an, «unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas (including spawning and breeding areas), wildlife, or recreational areas.»

http://www.epa.gov/salish-sea/shellfish-harvesting Nearly 183,000 acres (739 square kilometres) of shellfish beds are currently closed to harvesting in the Georgia Basin, and about 36,000 acres (147 square kilometres) are closed in Puget Sound... The primary sources of pollution that lead to closure of shellfish harvesting areas are polluted runoff from urban areas and farms, and uncontrolled sources of sewage and septic wastes.

Perhaps the cutest marine mammal of all, mustachioed sea otters dive for rich shellfish beds beneath their floating kelp forests.

By collecting invasive seafood on shellfish beds, for instance, we basically provide a free weeding service.

Thanks to unchecked development along America's coasts, disease - causing microbes are increasingly fouling beaches and shellfish beds

Communities in Maine and New Hampshire struggling to protect their swimming beaches and shellfish beds from bacterial pollution are considering bringing the dog to New England.

The county has helped fund research to re-open shellfish beds for fishermen in the Peconic Bay.

While there are other actions that help purify our waters, such as re-establishing shellfish beds or protecting wetlands, these must be executed in conjunction with reductions of wastewater nutrient loading if they are to succeed.

Not exact matches

Funny how «thou shall not lie with another man on a woman's bed» would fit perfectly into a set of rules about not shaving, not wearing cotton blends, not eating pork or shellfish.

«We take pride in our communities that share the landscape of our oyster beds, and it shows in the taste, quality and safety of our shellfish.»

On both islands, shellfish foraging sites (where the oyster beds are located) face north - west and the currents transporting planktonic larvae and therefore supply of new prey affect each island similarly.

They do not inhabit the open ocean, but instead live among coastal kelp beds, where they dive and hunt for a variety of shellfish and marine invertebrates.

The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66