Sentence examples for fishing impact from inspiring English sources

Comparing these patterns with areas where human activities such as fishing impact the oceans revealed areas that may be particularly sensitive.

We found that affectively-loaded impacts (harm to charismatic wildlife and visual intrusion) were assigned greater weight than more easily quantifiable impacts (displacement of fishing, impact to tourism, cost of compliance with regulations).

Experimental estimates of gear selectivity by age used for estimating stock size and measuring fishing impact have been scarcely documented in small-scale fisheries from Latin-America and the Caribbean.

The Northeast Channel is an important fishing area targeted by otter trawls, longlines and gillnets and increased signs of fishing impact were discovered by surveys done by DFO and Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada).

I started asking questions – and found out about run-off from farms and industry, water quality and fishing impacts.

In "Five Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems" (Island Press; $50), Pauly follows this trend to its logical — or, if you prefer, illogical — conclusion.

This probably arises because trophically transmitted parasites require multiple host species, some of which are the top predators most sensitive to fishing impacts.

Multispecies fisheries management requires managers to consider the impact of fishing activities on several species as fishing impacts both targeted and non-targeted species directly or indirectly in several ways.

Commercial fishing impacts increased in <10% of the ocean for any type of commercial fishing, and on average in only 40 (17%) of 239 EEZs (Fig. 3c,d, Supplementary Fig. 3).

The latest advice from the Great Barrier Reef marine park authority is that the reef remains under pressure from climate change, declining water quality from catchment runoff, coastal development and some fishing impacts.

Parasite diversity appears to be decoupled from host diversity by fishing impacts in this coral reef ecosystem, which suggests that such decoupling might also occur for parasites in other ecosystems affected by environmental change.