Sentence examples for catch declines from inspiring English sources
However, catch declines across all shark and ray species have been documented in the heavily-fished Gulf of California.
In the later 1980s, the number of X. laevis caught declined.
In Chiang Khong, traditionally a prime fishing ground, the catch declined from 69 in 1990 to two in 2000, and none since.
Spain's total catch declined during the 1980s and '90s, but the fishing sector still accounted for about 1 percent of GDP, and fish remain an important component of the Spanish diet.
The Fischnetz project aimed to identify the causes of fish catch decline and propose remedial measures.
Shrinking industrial landings, however, were responsible for most of the recent global catch decline, the researchers concluded.
Consequently, FAO could only be 'hopeful' that the catch decline is due to improved management rather than being symptomatic of worldwide overfishing (FAO, 2010).
Their new estimate is that today 845 million people (11percentt of the world population) are "poised to become deficient in one of these three micronutrients if current trajectories in fish-catch declines continue" and that 1.39 billion people (19percentt) are vulnerable to deficiencies and health impacts attributable to their dependence on fish as a limiting source of those key nutrients.
For other types of seafood, farm-raised stocks remain relatively stable when wild catches decline.
U Myint Aung himself had ceased working as a coastal fisherman when catches declined to the point where he could no longer make a living.
