Sentences with phrase «subsistence fishing»

The bulk of academic commentary also supports the assumption that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be confined to exercising rights of customary use and small scale subsistence fishing only.40

For example, activities pursuant to native title rights are restricted to pre-contract methods of exercising those rights (subsistence fishing, not commercial fishing).

Again, under this second position, s 211 of the NTA would preserve subsistence fishing and traditional access rights.

Obviously, the future of subsistence fishing and the management of the environment and the fisheries are interrelated.

More importantly, the EPA estimates — based on dubious epidemiological evidence and questionable demographic modeling — that the MACT Rule's Hg emission reductions will avert the loss of 0.00209 IQ points per child in a guesstimated population of 240,000 subsistence fishing households.

Coastal economic activity — whether subsistence fishing or resort development — creates high concentrations of vulnerable populations and exposed assets along the coastline.

Two summers ago a tropical storm rocked the USS Mississinewa — an oil tanker torpedoed near Micronesia's Ulithi Atoll — spilling 24,000 gallons of fuel and halting local subsistence fishing.

Every now and then the ship leaks oil, threatening coral reefs, marine life and subsistence fishing.

And immigrants from Southeast Asia also may be at higher risk because many are subsistence fishers, said Christina Medina of the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, Calif..

If scientists are able to utilize the methods and approaches described above appropriately, there is likely to be better representation of changes in climate, shifts in seasonality, and any resulting influence on subsistence fish and game species or existing infrastructure.

Not exact matches

It survives on tourism, fishing, and subsistence farming, and like its two sisters has a Creole population.

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has reported that the mining could remove 94 miles of streams and 5,350 acres of wetlands that contain about 90 % of fish vital to the subsistence life.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

Congress noted that Arctic waters host «a rich diversity of wildlife and fish resources and are critical to the survival of the subsistence culture of the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska.»

Nevertheless, diesel cooking remains significantly more lucrative than subsistence farming and fishing, and most assume these risks to lift their families out of abject poverty.

The results also show there are considerable local variations in the preferred species, but that fishing has been highly significant for human subsistence, and the significance of fishing appears to constantly increase.

This means that many official statistics do not account for a huge amount of the world's fisheries catch, such as that by small - scale and subsistence fisheries or fish thrown back as «discards» — species other than those being hunted.

Today, residents of these remote towns often scrape by on subsistence farming and fishing, and children in the area can find themselves several hours — or days — boat ride from the nearest town with a schoolhouse.

Commercial fishing and subsistence activities are an important part of the local culture.

In a region heavily populated by native Alaskans, many of whom are subsistence hunters, gatherers and fishers, spending hundreds of dollars for a spay or neuter surgery is hard to justify.

During the early days, this ex-penal colony outpost quickly became a hippie haven where local villagers survived on a subsistence of fishing and income from selling coconuts to the mainland.

Blue crab is considered to be a lower class food and it is mostly fished for subsistence.

The 1800s saw the arrival of colonists who managed to eke out subsistence livings through a combination of farming, ranching fishing and mining.

Before the advent of tourism, fishing along with ore mining were the two main means of subsistence in the area.

The beach isn't worth visiting but Klong Mad, the small fishing hamlet with a cluster of houses built around an inlet is quite interesting as you'll get an insight into how subsistence fishermen live.

They were a migratory, seafaring people, surviving mainly on fishing and subsistence agriculture.

Observe the way subsistence - style fishing villages in low - lying areas build homes on stilts.

Subsistence farming and fishing isn't very attractive in the face of oil money, what can they do to preserve their way of life?

Since 1998, Earthjustice has gone to court three times to protect this region from oil and gas leasing and its harmful effects on sensitive areas, including calving and insect - relief habitats for caribou, molting and nesting areas for various birds, and subsistence hunting and fishing grounds for local people.

From 2010 - 2013 he served as the Deputy Commissioner of Game, Subsistence, and Habitat for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Anchorage, Alaska providing policy oversight on wildlife and subsistence management representing the department at the Board of Game, Arctic Policy forums, legislative briefings, anSubsistence, and Habitat for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Anchorage, Alaska providing policy oversight on wildlife and subsistence management representing the department at the Board of Game, Arctic Policy forums, legislative briefings, ansubsistence management representing the department at the Board of Game, Arctic Policy forums, legislative briefings, and outreach.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

This doesn't reflect that most of the world is subsistence agriculture / fishing / wood chopping for personal consumption (I grew up on a farm and we did a lot of personal consumption which didn't make it into the GDP).

Next week: Subsistence hunters serving as «citizen scientists» help Brinkman's team by providing detailed observations about climate change - driven changes in their areas that have made hunting, fishing and trapping more difficult.

There is substantial new information that ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes are affecting the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,19,20,21 However, the relative importance of these potential causes of change is highly uncertain.

Acidity reduces the capacity of key plankton species and shelled animals to form and maintain shells and other hard parts, and therefore alters the food available to important fish species.136, 139,140 The rising acidity will have particularly strong societal effects on the Bering Sea on Alaska's west coast because of its high - productivity commercial and subsistence fisheries.17, 141

Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.

The Asháninka live off the land, practice subsistence farming, hunting and fishing.

These climate - related effects are causing sudden shifts in local economies and food security across the world, including agriculture, subsistence farming and fishing.

· National fisheries will suffer if fishers can not move within and across national borders (Subsistence / small scale fishermen suffer most)

The reason or purpose underlying paragraph 12 [of the NRTA] was to secure to the Indians a supply of game and fish for their support and subsistence and clearly to permit hunting, trapping and fishing for food... In my view the distinction that Dickson J. drew in Moosehunter between hunting for «support and subsistence», and hunting for «sport or commercially» is far more consistent with the spirit of Treaty No. 8 and with the proposition that one should not assume that the legislature intended to abrogate or derogate from Treaty 8 hunting rights than the respondent's submission that in using the term «for food» the legislature intended to restrict Treaty 8 hunting rights to hunting for direct consumption of the product of the hunt.36

This was a case dealing with aboriginal rights in which the appellant argued that he was exercising an existing aboriginal right to fish for subsistence and ceremonial purposes.

We also represent thousands of Gulf area residents who depended on fishing and hunting for subsistence.

The extinguishment of native title hunting and fishing rights over such a vast area in a situation where subsistence activities are of major importance has itself been highly problematic, and has necessitated protection of hunting and fishing rights through various separate state and federal pieces of legislation - a situation which created administrative difficulty and uncertainty about the long term security of the rights.

In the absence of a determination of exclusive rights of possession, occupation, use and enjoyment, the inclusion in the determination of a right to trade in resources was essential to extend their acknowledged fishing rights beyond their own subsistence needs.

Fishing is the main economic activity in the Torres Strait Islands, particularly fishing for prawns, rock lobsters, and Spanish mackerel, along with subsistence horticFishing is the main economic activity in the Torres Strait Islands, particularly fishing for prawns, rock lobsters, and Spanish mackerel, along with subsistence horticfishing for prawns, rock lobsters, and Spanish mackerel, along with subsistence horticulture.

Subsistence native title fishing rights, however, would be exempted from regulation by virtue of s 211 of the NTA.

The Solomon Islands is a lesser - developed nation, and more than 75 percent of its labor force is engaged in subsistence farming and fishing.