Sentence examples for catch size from inspiring English sources

As time passed, the fisheries dwindled and regulations limiting catch size increased.

The U.S. has enacted catch size limits in order to prevent the overfishing of coastal seas.

With clam beds exhausted and government rules on catch size ever more stringent, Doxsee will never again process vast quantities of clams a year.

The first method is seen to be more intuitive and interpretable, especially when selectivity may depend on catch size, but is limited in its ability to cope with complex experimental designs.

DAFF scientists analyze data to make catch size recommendations for different species, but DAFF managers (many of whom are not scientists) ultimately determine fishing permit conditions and grant fishing rights based on a number of considerations, many of which are political.

A trawl tow duration experiment was conducted to determine whether a reduction in tow duration from 30 to 15 min on the annual bottom trawl survey of the eastern Bering Sea (EBS) would influence either the catch size distribution or catch per unit of swept area (CPUE) for snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio), Tanner crab (C. bairdi) and red king crab (Paralithodes camtschatica).

That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes.

There has been a fourfold increase in the population of the pirarucu, an important commercial fish species, and a 25% increase in the average size of the fish landed (rigorous monitoring of catch sizes is part of the deal).

His letter is very specific, naming companies, locations, activities, time periods and catch sizes.

Changes in the mean length at maturity induced by the gears were estimated for catch sizes 50 000 t, 100 000 t and 150 000 t, which cover the typical catches by the two gears during 1994 1998 (ICES 2007, Kuikka et al. 1999).

It is evident that different mesh sizes catch different size and species groups.