Sentence examples for fishery act from inspiring English sources

This led to efforts to improve the fishery act, in 1996 and 2006, which forced the eight regional bodies that manage federal fisheries to introduce science-based quotas and ten-year recovery programmes for depleted fisheries.

Since its conservation-oriented reforms in 2006, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Act has seen two-thirds of U.S. overfished stocks rebuilt or improved.

Life history theory has shown that these two types of fishery act in opposite directions on age at maturation (Law and Grey 1989): while the feeder fishery favors early-maturing fish that manage to reproduce while still alive, a high mortality on the spawning grounds favor fish that are large when they risk that mortality to reproduce and therefore selects for late maturation.

Senator Charles Schumer has introduced a bill called The Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act.

That designation could bring into play the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which prohibits removal of protected corals from federal waters.

In response to Governor Pataki's request, the federal Commerce Department last month declared the Sound a commercial fishery failure under the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act and other laws.

Critics say the changes gut the country's strongest environmental law, the Canadian Fisheries Act, by easing earlier requirements on mining and other industries to protect fish habitat.

Under the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994, a person cannot possess or sell any species of sawfish or any part of a sawfish in the state, a spokeswoman for the department said.

I am pushing for the Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act because we need regulations that let North Carolina fishermen do what they do best — fish in the waters off North Carolina.

Harper pulled Canada out of the Kyoto protocol, gutted the Fisheries Act (our strongest freshwater protection law), and hollowed out our environmental assessment legislation, making it easier for extractive industries to get licences to exploit," said Maude Barlow, a former UN advisor on water and chair of the Council of Canadians.

Environment Agency water bailiffs have powers of arrest, search and seizure under the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975.