Sentence examples for half of the catch from inspiring English sources

About half of the catch is exported.

Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring group, has estimated that at least half of the catch landed could be illegal.

Mackerel makes up more than half of the catch in Shetland by weight and value, and there are significant landings of Haddock, Cod, Herring, Whiting, Monkfish and shellfish.

Further, > 70% of Hg exposure from seafood sold in the U.S. commercial market is from fish caught beyond the 200 mile limit for U.S. domestic waters, and less than half of the domestic catch is harvested within 3 miles from shore (National Marine Fisheries Service 2007; Sunderland 2007).

The analysis, published Thursday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, found that fewer than half of those caught crossing the southwest border in the 2014 fiscal year were Mexican.

According to NOAA's Northeast Regional Office, fishermen have caught less than 30 percent of the 2012 allotment of Georges Bank cod to date and only slightly more than half of the allowable catch for the Gulf of Maine.

But Japan, which consumes well over half of the worldwide catch and where a single fish can fetch prices above $100,000, said Thursday that it would opt out of the ban if it was approved.

Taiji officials said all the pilot whales caught on this expedition had been killed and their meat put on the market, but added that half of the bottlenose catch would be sold to aquariums and the remainder "set free", in an apparent attempt to mollify international opinion.

Nearly 40 years ago, blue crab from the Chesapeake Bay supplied just under half of the United States' catch.

Of note is that half of the total catch has been taken since 1942.

Large foreign fishing fleets featured prominently on the fishing grounds, taking almost half of the demersal catch.