Sentence examples for catches of cod from inspiring English sources

A few island fishers participate in the lucrative catches of cod, haddock, tuna, and mackerel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

A species normally associated with the warmth of the Mediterranean, rather than the freezing north, may seem an odd addition to their usual catches of cod and haddock.

The results showed that the currently applied codend designs are adequate to ensure low catches of cod below the minimum size for this fishery, but they also indicated that a considerable part of the size selection may occur through slack meshes.

Catches of cod for example have declined by 70% in the last 10 years.

Catches of cod in the North-East Atlantic have been tumbling since the late 1960s.

Seismic shooting severely affected fish distribution, local abundance, and catch rates in the entire investigation area of 40 × 40 nautical miles.Trawl catches of cod and haddock and longline catches of haddock declined on average by about 50percentt (by mass) after shooting started, which agreed with the acoustic abundance estimates; longline catches of cod were reduced by 21percentt.

These results indicate that longlines with fabricated bait have the potential to maintain a very low catch of cod while fishing for haddock.

While further experiments are still needed in different fishing areas and seasons, the 8 MD low profile nets have great potential to substitute the standard cod net to maintain flounder catch rates while reducing the catch of cod.

The selective haddock trawl reduced the total catch of cod by 55% during the day and 82% at night, and 99% of the marketable haddock was caught during the day and 89% at night.

Thirty haul-pairs were successfully conducted and demonstrated a 51% reduction in the catch of cod, with no significant loss of any flatfish species, except for a significant loss of sublegal American plaice.

The plan reduces the catch of cod in the Gulf of Maine down to 1,550 metric tons a year for the next three years; the limit was 8,000 metric tons a decade ago.