Sentence examples for distant fisheries from inspiring English sources
For decades the island's commercial tuna industry was part of a large-scale international operation that brought its catch from distant fisheries to Puerto Rico, where fish were processed for export; however, by the early 21st century most of the canneries had been closed and their operations relocated to countries with lower hourly wages.
We compared the performance of two bird-scaring line designs (light lines with short streamers vs. hybrid lines with a mix of long and short streamers) deployed in pairs with unweighted branch lines on two joint venture tuna vessels typical of distant-water tuna fisheries in the South Africa Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
This is particularly important for the Taiwanese distant-water longline fishery, which has a long history of fishery data from two fleets that target various tuna species across three oceans.
We review the development of the Taiwanese distant-water longline fishery and compare five designs for standardizing the catch rate of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the western and central Pacific Ocean, using generalized linear models with lognormal and delta-lognormal error assumptions.
These challenges include a lack of resources directed toward data collection, the distant and dispersed nature of the fisheries [22], [23], disparities among data sources, limited data availability in some areas, and a scarcity of spatial information.
Furthermore, with multilateral collaboration VMS technologies may offer an important solution to quantifying and managing ecosystem disturbance particularly on the high-seas, which has become evermore important as fisheries move into deeper [32] and more distant waters.
Will new fisheries benefit these same communities or be exploited commercially by distant water fleets?
Fisheries now cover a majority of the world's ocean, with areas of low productivity and distant waters as the final remaining 'frontiers'frontiers
Global fisheries were collapsing.
Fisheries are also important.
