Sentence examples for Reduce catch from inspiring English sources

Resource managers can then target the most abundant fishing grounds and reduce catch of unwanted or protected species.

We find the use of empirical move-on rules could reduce catch of juvenile and choke stocks between 27 and 33%, and depredation events between 41 and 54%.

And it brings enormous pressure not to reduce catch quotas, when scientific advice has long indicated that the fish continue declining and the quota is too high.

Such painful explosions of noise can disturb essential behaviors like feeding and breeding over vast distances, cause communication problems between individual whales and dolphins and even reduce catch rates of commercial fish.

Ensuring equitable allocations would be straight-forward if there were no need to constrain or reduce catch levels.

In an attempt to reduce catches of juvenile fish in the Icelandic Nephrops norvegicus fisheries, the mesh sizes in the upper part of a commercial Nephrops trawl were increased and the netting hung to force wide mesh opening.

Over fishing grounds where fishermen need a more selective trawl to harvest flatfishes, the experimental gear tested could provide fishermen a technique to reduce catches of non-target species.

Clarke said a lack of data on stock levels, scientific advice to reduce catches and concerns about the fisheries management had led the charity to move gurnard off its eat list and on to its cautionary listing.

"Fishery management measures that sufficiently reduce catches are urgently needed to reverse the fortunes of this fish; if such measures cannot be agreed and implemented quickly, a complete moratorium on fishing for sea bass may well be necessary in the foreseeable future".

But the restrictions are predicted to reduce catches by only 60% for pelagic trawlers, 22% for demersal vessels, which fish along the bottom of the sea, and 6% for hook and line fisheries, well below the 80% reduction urged by ICES.

However, the success of efforts to reduce catches was somewhat mixed.