Sentence examples for extensive fishing from inspiring English sources

Such countries as Russia and Japan maintain extensive fishing fleets centred on factory ships.

The British backers of the extensive fishing fleets discouraged permanent settlements in Newfoundland (they wanted all the money to return home), so it wasn't until the 18th century that Trinity emerged as a mercantile center, home to extensive fishing, seal hunting and cargo fleets.

Sea fishing and aquaculture resources have been developed since the mid-20th century, but, because the most extensive fishing grounds in the EU are off Ireland's shores, international competition is intense.

Since the 1690s the British had pursued extensive "fishing" from bay stations in the North American colonies, and Cape Cod, Long Island, and Rhode Island became new centres of activity.

Both Chew Valley Lake and Blagdon Lake provide extensive fishing under permit from Bristol Water.

Recent surveys of the fishes of uninhabited, remote coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the northern Line Islands [23], [27] strongly support historical reports of great fish abundance and predator domination that characterized coral reefs before extensive fishing efforts (see historical references for the Line Islands in Table S2).

In Leshan, Sichuan Province, extensive fish deaths along 135 miles of the Minjiang River followed a chemical spill.

In some areas the water use was so extensive, fish and other aquatic wildlife were threatened.

These events can cause deoxygenation of waterways and extensive fish mortality.

Lisboa à Noite, in the trendy Bairro Alto section of Lisbon, had an extensive fish menu and was superb.

In such occurrences, warm water overrides the cold, nutrient-rich current along the Pacific coast of South America, causing torrential rains on land and extensive fish kills at sea.