Sentence examples for catch level from inspiring English sources
In concrete terms, the measures Wednesday require that by 2015, all European quotas be set at the optimal catch level, known as maximum sustainable yield.
This year the European Union and Norway have declared they will take about 90 percent of the catch level that scientists say is sustainable; Iceland and the Faroes have served notice that they will not settle for the remaining 10 percent.
"The actual catch level will be around 11,000, which is a large reduction from current levels," the head of the Japanese delegation, Masanori Miyahara, said, adding that some members had promised not to use up their quotas.
In this arrangement, scientists set acceptable catch levels, and other authorities allocate shares, species by species, region by region.
The MSC system means that those who flout scientific advice on sustainable catch levels will be penalised.
The "spillover effect", as fish migrate out of large marine reserves, greatly boosts the overall catch levels.
The House of Commons also lambasted the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for poor scientific data, and for failing to enforce catch levels.
National controls on fleets and harbours are so patchy that the EU's Court of Auditors said in 2007 that real catch levels were "unknown".
At least for the moment, a sustainable shrimp fishery still crawls along the western side of Florida, where the catch levels for 2010, before the spill, were holding high with recent years, according to the N.O.A.A. Fisheries Service.
To address the precarious state of many fish stocks and the problems of overfishing, the EU commission had proposed to set catch levels that would allow fish stocks to increase above the levels needed to ensure sustainability, or the 'maximum sustainable yield'.
Under the deal sealed after three days of negotiations, catch levels for some white fish stocks off the west of Scotland, the Channel and Irish Sea actually increase, while the scale of cutbacks proposed by the European commission for others has been whittled down.
