Sentence examples for water fleets from inspiring English sources

Will new fisheries benefit these same communities or be exploited commercially by distant water fleets?

When implemented by developed countries for their distant water fleets (DWF), they provide an advantage over the fishing boats of developing countries.

Under EU rules, European vessels can only fish the so-called "surplus", i.e fish that is not caught by the local fleet, or other distant water fleets, and is still within the levels required to ensure sustainability, but it is very hard to assess the surplus for migratory pelagic stocks.

The expansion of driftnet fisheries onto the high seas has largely been driven by the exclusion of distant water fleets from coastal EEZ's, and the increasing world demand for fish products.

I hope that you are further encouraged to see that among the measures we are looking at ways in which the Royal Navy 'blue water fleet' may be able to help in combating IUU fishing".

The distant water fleet that once sailed out of Aberdeen, Fleetwood and the Humber for fishing grounds around Iceland, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the Arctic was decimated in the 1970s after a change in international law established exclusive economic zones (EEZ) up to 200 miles around coastal states.

Within a decade of the end of the Cod Wars Grimsby's distant water fleet had disappeared.

In chartering agreements, foreign distant water fleet operators charter a vessel flagged to the coastal state for its fishing operations.

In the case of joint ventures, foreign distant water fleet operators set up a joint venture with a local company or representative and reflag to the coastal state, and are therefore considered as local fleet.

Distant-water fleets bring industrial fishing to countries such as Gabon or Guinea, which do not have big boats of their own.

The EU has recently put in place measures designed to combat illegal fishing, with skippers facing enhanced sanctions and with distant-water fleets in principle having to operate to the same standards as in EU seas.