Sentence examples for smaller catch from inspiring English sources
When stocks are overfished, they yield a smaller catch.
An industry spokesman, Rune Frovik, secretary of the High North Alliance, told BBC News that a shortage of capelin, a main food for minke, had also contributed to the smaller catch, and that only 444 minke were landed this year.
And that's being optimistic". Without trips to the shoal, the men were forced to fish in nearby waters and compete with other fishermen for a smaller catch.
Figure 10.2 Kambuzi seines of 13mm mesh, or smaller, catch a lot of small immature kambuzi.
To offset the losses caused by smaller catches, fish prices rose sharply.
Although commercial fishers pull $20 million of pink abalones annually from the waters off Baja California, recent years netted 10 times smaller catches than the peak year.
The nearby beach of Calamosche is much smaller, caught between two rocky promontories, and harder to reach (15 minutes' walk from the entrance to the Vendicari nature reserve).
Good news for lobster-loving tourists like moi, but not so great for fishers whose livelihoods depend on the higher prices that smaller catches nab.
A few additional countries with smaller catches (5 in all, 1.4% of world catch) were included because of their importance in understanding the distribution of illegal fishing.
