Sentence examples for tonnes of fish from inspiring English sources
ABOUT 26m tonnes of fish are caught illegally each year.
Fishermen take from more than seven million tonnes of fish a year.
In 2000, the industry produced 36m tonnes of fish and shellfish.
Oil-rig reefs may shelter and feed up to eight tonnes of fish.
A total of about 20 tonnes of fish are currently caught in the area each year.
From 2011 to 2012 global aquaculture provided 90m tonnes of fish, overtaking 80m tonnes from the wild fisheries.
Adding heterotrophs to the mix means Calysta can be less fussy about exactly which sources of natural gas it uses to feed its bugs.At the moment, the world produces about 5m tonnes of fish-meal a year, a number that has been constant for four decades and is limited by the size of the Earth's fisheries.
They provide the main source of food for humpbacks; an adult whale will eat a tonne of fish a day to sustain its vast bulk.
Nova Scotian fishing records stretching back to the 1930s show that today's boats burn over four times more fuel to catch a tonne of fish, despite having far more efficient engines.
Herring fishermen in Canada may use only 30 litres of fuel to catch a tonne of fish, because they can throw their nets nearer to home (a practice so cheap that herring is used as lobster bait).
It takes lots of fuel to pull a heavy net behind a trawler, or tow long lines with hooks for prey like tuna: figures of 3,000 litres of fuel per tonne of fish are common.Many European fleets are shaped by business choices made when diesel was cheap.
