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European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), once target of a pair-trawl fishery in the English Channel, now banned due to the high level of cetacean bycatch. Pair trawling is a fishing activity carried out by two boats, with one towing each warp (the towing cables).
Jan. 26—A bill seeking to ban the sale of fur products in Washington has raised the hackles of trappers and fly tiers. Senate Bill 6294, sponsored by Sen. Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, would ...
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Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling. Benthic trawling is towing a net at the very bottom of the ocean and demersal trawling is towing a net just above the benthic ...
Cod fishing in Newfoundland was carried out at a subsistence level for centuries, but large-scale fishing began shortly after the European discovery of the North American continent in 1492, with the waters being found to be preternaturally plentiful, and ended after intense overfishing with the collapse of the fisheries in the 1990s.
(The Center Square) – While Democrats say the proposal could level the playing field, their conservative counterparts argue it would allow homeless people to undermine local law. State ...
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing poses a global challenge and has significant economic and environmental repercussions. [5] The impact of IUU fishing includes economic losses, job losses, scarcity, price distortion, food insecurity and unfair competition, [6] together with the depletion of fish populations and damages to the marine habitat. [7]
With the absence of foreign fishing, many Canadian and U.S fishing trawlers took their place, and the number of cod kept diminishing past a point of recovery. [12] Many local fishers noticed the drastic decrease of cod and tried to inform local government officials. [citation needed] In a 1978 white paper, the Newfoundland government stated: [15]