Sentence examples for reduction in catch from inspiring English sources

The draft proposal of the agreement worried Latin American countries because it legitimized scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean by Japan and did not call for a substantial reduction in catch.

But by the time Iccat met again, in November 2009, environmentalists had come to home in on the historic mismanagement of Atlantic bluefin, many of them arguing that a simple reduction in catch quotas for the coming fishing season was not enough — that in fact a zero-catch quota was the only thing that would stave off the fish's extinction.

Results also suggested a small increase in the catch limit under the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) harvest management rules, but with a slight reduction in catch rates.

Through comparison of 1754 hauls conducted on chartered vessels between 2003 and 2005 on the shelf and slope of the U.S. West Coast, we show a significant reduction in catch rates of bottom dwelling fish and invertebrates as a function of visually estimated wave height.

Similar sites have also reported an 80percentnt reduction in catch rates of fish and major declines in squid populations.

The reduction in catch observed in scenarios that displace fishing effort through the use of MRs and ER allowed lobster biomass to increase, resulting in a greater rate of population growth.

In this scenario the total area protected would be 30% in exchange for a mean 4.6% reduction in catches (Table 3).

At a minimum, the approach outlined here would protect the same proportion of fished populations as the target reduction in catches, assuming even catchability in space.

We further assessed the performance of the run with targeted 5% reduction in catches on annual spatial catch data for the four commercial fisheries for which we had annual data: geoduck, green urchin, red urchin and sea cucumber.

We carried out a detailed assessment of the run with a target of a 5% reduction in catches (in all fisheries) by examining the proportion of different habitat types or surrogates that fell within the areas where fishing was allowed to continue (permitted fishing areas).

Other studies are necessary, he says, to work out the relationship between reductions in catch rates and actual removals from stock.Dr Myers and Dr Worm, however, stand by their conclusions.