Sentence examples for vital fish from inspiring English sources

Yet oil has poisoned Louisiana's salt marshes and wetlands, which are vital fish nurseries, and visibly damaged deep-sea coral.

In a compromise, a regulatory panel approves a 20 percent cut in the annual harvest of the menhaden, a vital fish in the mid-Atlantic food chain.

The fishing industry, for example, needs to be informed that abstaining from destructive practices such as dynamite fishing will eventually be profitable for them, since coral reefs act as vital fish hatcheries.

Louisiana's wetlands — vital fish nurseries — are soiled, and the full extent of the damage to the gulf's ecosystem and its species, especially to fish larvae and the tiny organisms vital to the food chain, may not be known for years.

And while it has been known for years that a salmon can smell its way up the river to find its natal stream, no one has been able to explain just how these beautiful and economically vital fish find their way back from the open ocean, 4,000 or 5,000 miles away, to the right river mouth.

"Large dams disrupt the ecosystems of rivers, block vital fish migration routes and stop nutrient-rich sediment from flowing downstream to the country's riverbank gardens and rice fields," Ame Trandem, Southeast Asia program director for International Rivers, an organization based in the United States, said by e-mail from Bangkok.

Stonington is one of the last remaining vital fishing villages.

Mr. Gunnlaugsson's party has been opposed, in part because its members fear that joining would mean giving up control of Iceland's vital fishing stocks.

For decades, Iceland has staunchly rebuffed talk of joining the EU, fearful of handing control of its vital fishing sector to the European Commission, which sets member states' catch quotas.

Hong Kong's fishing fleet of 4,000 vessels cannot afford to offend the Chinese authorities, who control vital fishing grounds.On August 31st China's parliament announced that, in the election for the post of chief executive due in 2017, the winner would be chosen by popular vote for the first time.

In a move that has infuriated Beijing, the ruling marks the first legal decision over the waters that hold some of the world's most promising oil and gas fields and vital fishing grounds.