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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
As ... varieties, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters. Global warming could shift the location of traditional fishing grounds, with economic impacts that would vary regionally. More important, it could alter ocean circulation, ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
The tremendous growth of the fishing industry in the last few decades has meant not only expanding fishing fleets, but the development of vessels which are ... traditional fishing grounds. Bycatch not only affects marine ecosystems but also the millions of people who rely on healthy fish stocks for food and employment. The economic costs of discarded bycatch for the fishing ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
The tremendous growth of the fishing industry in the last few decades has meant not only expanding fishing fleets, but the development of vessels which are ... traditional fishing grounds. Bycatch not only affects marine ecosystems but also the millions of people who rely on healthy fish stocks for food and employment. The economic costs of discarded bycatch for the fishing ...
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Protocol on the Protection of the Black Sea Marine Environment Against Pollution by Dumping (1992)
Methods and technologies of packaging and disposal of matter. 3. Dispersal characteristics. ... , and foaming). 2. Possible effects on marine life, fish stocks, mari-cultures areas, traditional fishing grounds, seaweed harvesting and cultivation sites. 3. Possible effects on other uses of the ...
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Fragile coasts
If the often poor, local fishers normally earn less than $20 a day from traditional fishing, what will stop them from exploiting the whale shark population to extinction in this way ... protective measures, we would probably be seeing the last of our mangroves. The ponds destroy traditional fishing grounds, removing a source of income from local communities by people who will be making profits ...
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Grassroots - Hope in a raindrop
Thailand's coastal regions are under serious threat. High-powered trawlers relentlessly encroach traditional fishing grounds. Reefs are destroyed to feed the tourist market for coral. Beach resorts ... trawlers, owned by powerful business interests, by constructing artificial reefs to protect their traditional fishing grounds. When the trawlers smashed through the reefs, the fishermen set up their own ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - Environment & Poverty Times #5 - Fishing for the future in Fiji
Working for WetlandsFighting poverty and producing environment-friendly energyMany Strong Voices Fishing for the future in Fiji Environmental wealth of rural communities Three quarters of ... to support community decision making. LMMA communities set aside a portion of their traditional fishing grounds as restricted areas to allow marine resources to recover. The location and size ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Seamounts and Continental Shelves - The Ocean's Unprotected Treasure Vaults
With traditional fishing grounds depleted and/or heavily regulated, fisheries are increasingly targeting productive areas and ... are the characteristics of many deep-water organisms: unlike their counterparts in traditional, shallow-water fishing grounds, the deep-sea fish targeted around seamounts are long-lived, slow ...
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A Tuna Tale
The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) yellowfin tuna fishery, an 8 million square mile area stretching from California to Chile and out to Hawaii, is the traditional fishing grounds for ... substitution of other gear would result in higher dolphin mortality. In addition, concentrating the fishing on the mature and large yellowfin tuna keeps the fishery healthy and avoids ...
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Anatomy of an anti-fishing campaign
Evidently just saving turtles isn't enough for Pew/Oceana; it seems as if the two fishing fleets that have led ... staffer (To Save the Sea Turtles: A Spanish Fishing Adventure, Charlotte Hudson, 2004-09-16, Section: Europe, Topic: Dirty Fishing), after she condescendingly writes "think fishing, no showers, foam rubber pads that ...
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