Sentence examples for fish overboard from inspiring English sources

The trawlermen said they were disgusted at having to throw dead fish overboard because EU quotas were set stupidly low.

"No longer will European fishermen be dumping millions of tonnes of fish overboard, which is a waste of a valuable food resource to the detriment of our stocks and the industry.

Twenty-two of Scotland's 122 whitefish boats allowed monitoring cameras on board to prevent them throwing valuable smaller fish overboard, increased mesh size to avoid catching juveniles and fitted panels to allow cod to escape when they were fishing for other species.

And can a fisherman caught red-handed with grouper that were smaller than the minimum permitted length be prosecuted for tossing the fish overboard (Yates v United States)?After two straight years of decisions regarding racial preferences in higher education, the court has no affirmative-action case on its docket just yet.

It is when fishermen are forced to throw fish overboard, either because they don't have quotas to catch those fish; the fish are below the minimum landing size; they're not the species the skipper was targeting; or because they need to make room on the boat for more commercially valuable fish, called "high grading".

Both Powers and Thomas say they see the men on the lobster boat tossing buckets of fish overboard and kicking the few stragglers off the backless transom of the boat.

We're always careful not to attract them by throwing fish guts overboard.

Trying to reel in a fish, he fell overboard, as his boat moved on toward the island of Iriomote.

And there we sit – bobbing – in silence but for the plop of the current against the boat and the occasional slosh of fish blood thrown overboard.

Whilst out fishing Miles falls overboard and is nearly eaten by a shark, he discovers Lou De Bono's (David Roberts) body in the process.

The marlin, not the tastiest of fish, are mostly dumped overboard dead.