Sentence examples for fishery disaster from inspiring English sources

But federal officials are declaring a fishery disaster for Florida's oyster industry in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Commerce Department also declared commercial fishery disaster relief for three regions in Alaska where Chinook salmon catches have plummeted — on the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, both of which flow into the Bering Sea off Alaska's west coast, and in the Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage.

Fishery disaster declarations are not novel for the agency — it often makes at least several per year — but are unusual for a fishery that has been actively managed for decades, according to Peter Shelley, senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation, which supported this declaration despite opposing previous calls for such an action.

As a result, the director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife warned that the state's commercial and recreational salmon fishery may have to be closed and a fishery disaster declared in the next few years.

Because other species in the region also are in decline, the U.S. Department of Commerce declared a fishery disaster in New England in September 2012, the second such declaration for the region in 20 years.

While some New England fisheries have become highly profitable, such as Maine lobster and Atlantic sea scallop, the federal government in 2012 declared a fishery disaster for New England groundfish stocks in anticipation of significant decreases in catch limits in 2013.

Louisiana and Mississippi have already asked the government to declare a fisheries disaster, a requirement for federal disaster aid.

No one is in a position to formally declare their fisheries "disasters".

(Unfortunately, most fisheries for most kinds of fish do exactly this, a major reason for our widespread fisheries disasters).

The situation looked so dire that the Commerce Department declared the Northeastern commercial groundfish fishery a disaster last fall, along with three salmon fisheries in Alaska and Mississippi's blue crab and oyster fisheries.

Malta's Joe Borg (fisheries) has called the common fisheries policy a disaster.