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Monthly summary for August 1999
Senegal storm, many missing - CNN (Africa) Aug 23: Storm hits Senegalese fishing fleet - BBC (Africa) Aug 23: Hurricane flood warnings - but heavy rains could mean the worst is ...
www.cru.uea.ac.uk


fisheries resource paper
There are exceptions to this national/open access regime. For example, local communities are ... negative economic consequences for small-scale fishing operations.  A limit on overall fleet size protects the small-scale fisher; regulations concerning timing and seasonality affect fishing at all levels.  Both of ...
www.des.ucdavis.edu


SoundNet - Ocean Crisis Caused by Destructive Fishing
Trusts estimates that there are almost two billion hooks set per year by the longline fishing fleet. Longline fishing in all the world's deep oceans kills some 40,000 sea turtles each ... marine species by closing the West Coast to longlining altogether and restricting the Hawaii longlining fleet from fishing for swordfish. After a legal challenge by the Turtle Island Restoration Network, the National ...
www.oceania.org.au


Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1992 (c. 60)
In subsection (7) (provision of statistical information) for the words ``such statistical information ...
www.opsi.gov.uk


Kodiak Island, Alaska - Official Visitors Guide - Fishing Boom Town
Coast Guard Station, servicing the fishing fleet, freighter traffic and recreational boaters in the North Pacific. ... 1960s. The fishery slowed when shore plants and the fishing fleet were badly damaged by the 1964 earthquake and tidal ... fishing consist largely of support services for the fishing industry, or of enterprises which support the people who engage in fishing activities ...
kodiak.org


Fishing forever
European fleet. Given the complexity of fishing activities, in order to manage fishing effort it is necessary to define ... fishery resources available and the fishing effort deployed. The main problem in achieving this objective is the continuing existence of overcapacity of the Community fishing fleet. The Commission is now ...
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WWF - Problems: Poorly managed fishing
The total income lost from this overfishing must be enormous. The global fishing fleet is currently 2.5x larger than what the oceans can sustainably support1 - meaning that humans ... of food due to competition with fishing fleets for herring. Find out what WWF is doing! 1 Porter, G. (1998). Estimating overcapacity in the global fishing fleet. WWF 2 FAO (2004) State of ...
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WWF - Sustainable fishing: Reducing fishing capacity
What's the problem? A major reason for the current level of overfishing is that the global fishing fleet is 2.5x larger than what the oceans can sustainably support. Put simply, there are too many boats catching too few fish. Find out more... More information Factsheet: Managing fishing ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Impact of Unsustainable Fishing Practices on Sea Bed and Ocean Productivity
However, given the capacity of most of the world's fishing fleet, of growing pollution, climate change and coastal development, little doubt now remains that ...
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Sustainable fisheries
Principles of Sustainable Fishing 1. Manage the entire marine ecosystem, rather than individual stocks; 2. Adopt a ... . Ensure that all relevant stakeholders have a meaningful say in fisheries management; 4. Decrease fishing-fleet capacity and plan for stock fluctuations; 5. Protect ecological and species diversity; 6. ...
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