Sentence examples for overfishing reducing from inspiring English sources

The most important elements of EBFM are keeping fishing mortality rates low enough to prevent ecosystem-wide overfishing, reducing or eliminating by-catch and avoiding habitat-destroying fishing methods.

Among other things, the report found that "by stopping overfishing, reducing discards at sea and protecting [the oceans'] most productive areas," the world "can not only recover wild fisheries, we can also protect diverse ocean ecosystems".

We win key victories for the oceans that stop overfishing, reduce bycatch, limit pollution, preserve habitat and protect wildlife.

Overfishing reduced the population to In 1995, the management advisory committee for the Western Australian shark fishery recommended that the whiskery shark stock be rebuilt to 40% of pre-exploitation levels by the 2010/11 season, through a series of fishing effort reductions.

The certification depends on a host of factors, such as not overfishing and reducing bycatch the accidental killing of birds, turtles, and other animals.

"These subsidies produce such strong economic incentives to overfish that reducing them is one of the most significant actions that can be taken to combat overfishing," the 14 researchers wrote in an open letter, released last week by an ocean conservation nongovernmental organization called Oceana and signed online by 186 more scientists.

Cod numbers have been slow to recover after overfishing drastically reduced their numbers, according to Cefas.

Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have reduced overcapacity and increased profitability in many fisheries, and have sometimes helped to reduce overfishing.

Legislators also agreed to provide payments to fishermen to hang up their nets temporarily, which might reduce overfishing in the short term but which conservationists fear could create a reserve army of unemployed fishermen instead of permanently reducing capacity.

Seaquest: The goal has to be to reduce overfishing.

The ban is intended to reduce overfishing while a fishery management plan is developed.