Sentence examples for major fishery from inspiring English sources

A few are prized game fishes, but only the Pacific tarpon (or oxeye) is of economic importance as food; it supports a major fishery in Southeast Asia.

"In the fall when crab season comes around, and the boilers are steaming and all the guys are coming around with the fresh crabs, it just makes you sad to realize that this is the last major fishery we have left," he said.

He described the Pacific as "the last major fishery on the planet that has not been exploited beyond the point of sustainability".

The project is an experiment in the new science of "environmental flows" from dams, and the goal here is to try to restore another major fishery that dried up 60 years ago.

Some species support major fishery and aquaculture industries worldwide.

The U.S. Commerce Department just declared major fisheries in New England, Alaska and Mississippi a "disaster".

Most of the major fisheries of the world are located on them.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has declared that sixty-nine per cent of the world's major fisheries are either "fully exploited" or "overexploited".

The stock is also, the National Marine Fisheries Service likes to say, considered one of the world's best-managed major fisheries.

Cod is only one thread in the tangled global web of fishery management, a task that grew urgent in the 1990s after United Nations reports showed that virtually all the major fisheries were in danger.

The cooperatives hold exclusive rights to 'concession' territories for major fisheries and are linked by geographic adjacency and through a federation.