Sentence examples for reliant on fishing from inspiring English sources

As a case in point, Mr. Isola said that even Spain's arguments about its fishing rights had been blown out of proportion, because Gibraltar's government had identified only one Spanish fishing boat, the Divina Providencia, that was reliant on fishing in the contested area.

ECONOMY Heavily reliant on fishing, whaling and textiles, Greenland pulled out of the European Community in 1985 due to restrictions on fishing and seal hunting.

In Hull, a city once reliant on fishing and shipping, the Green Port Hull initiative will host a £310m Siemens offshore wind turbine manufacturing facility.

With farming being almost impossible, the islanders are historically reliant on fishing and particularly whale-hunting, and also hunting seabirds for food – a slightly bizarre activity, although rationally speaking no more bizarre than any other carnivorous practice.

The Nigerien government imposed a state of emergency, still in effect today, that banned all motorcycle travel, and all use of Lake Chad and the Komadougou River, the lifeblood of an economy reliant on fishing and pepper farming.

They are also reliant on prey fish that move for similar reasons.

To a large extent the region of Galicia — home to Europe's largest fishing port, Vigo — is still reliant on fish even though the waters of the European Union are among the most exploited in the world.

This expansion in marine fisheries was increasingly reliant on new fishing grounds in the South, with the means of these new fishing grounds shifting southward, on average, by about 0.8 degree per year.

Dal lake's commercial fisheries are particularly reliant on carp fish species, which were introduced into the lake in 1957.

UAE sits on the seventh largest proven oil reserves in the world, and the financial surpluses of oil wealth have been channelled to transform a society once reliant on trading and fishing into a state with an economy focused around finance, real estate and tourism.

It is far too reliant on one market, China.