Sentence examples for tow time from inspiring English sources
On Monday, the department reduced the maximum tow time for skimmer trawls to 30 minutes from 55 because of an unusually high number of turtles in the area.
By contrast, Mississippi officials strengthened turtle protections by decreasing the allowable tow time for skimmers, posting observers on boats, and sending out pamphlets on turtle resuscitation.
These turtles were randomly captured in trawl nets without turtle excluder devices at randomly selected stations using a trawl tow time of 30 min. Blood samples were collected and processed in the same manner as described above for use in in vitro exposure experiments.
Turtles were captured using 20.3-cm stretch mesh trawl nets without turtle excluder devices and a trawl tow time of 30 min. Approximately 750 trawl stations were randomly selected each year and sampled from a sampling "universe" representing every 1 square nautical mile in water depths of 4.8 14.9 m between Winyah Bay, South Carolina, and St. Augustine, Florida.
In Mississippi in June, three skimmer boats were caught exceeding legal tow times — one just hours after the shrimper had been given a handout explaining that the maximum time had been reduced, Lieutenant Armes said.
Therefore, the United States Environmental Protection Agency allowed an alternative to the TEDs, of shorter tow times with seasonal restrictions of a maximum of 55 minutes from April 1 through October 31, and a maximum of 75 minutes from November 1 through March 31.
By making the shorter tow times the required alternative, the EPA intended to minimize any sea turtle casualties as a result of trawlers being allowed to remove the TEDs.
The so-called tow-time logger was built by the Onset Computer Corporation, a supplier of data loggers for energy and environmental monitoring, under a federal contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
At each station vertical or oblique tows with appropriately-meshed nets shall be used to assess the microzooplankton, the nekton, and the macrozooplankton, Towing times and distances shall be sufficient to obtain representative samples of organisms near water quality stations.
A couple of years on from The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson is back, with Joaquin Phoenix in tow, this time having the first-ever crack at shooting a Thomas Pynchon novel.
He's risen to that challenge now twice, with our 4-year-old in tow both times.
