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3 unusual facts about fishery


National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

For example, research on marine fisheries must consider information from wide stretches of the ocean, and studies of long-lived forest communities must span decades.

Nile Basin Initiative

Other potential benefits include improved inland navigation, more productive fisheries and sufficient flows of water to maintain critical ecosystems.

Twon-Brass

In the mid-20th century it was the base of several fisheries and a center for the shipping of palm products.


Agulhas Current

This removal of young fish can result in a reduced Anchovy catch in the Benguela system if a ring passes through the fishery.

Alligator gar

In November 2008, a 0.5- to 0.6-m-long alligator gar was caught in the north of Esenguly, Turkmenistan by two officials of Turkmenistan Fishery Protection.

Andavadoaka

The village lies on the edge of a shallow lagoon protected from the open ocean by a series of fringing and submerged barrier reefs that support substantial coral growth, providing a vital resource base for a local artisanal fishery.

Anti-fouling paint

In the 1960s and 1970s, commercial vessels commonly used bottom paints containing tributyltin (TBT), which has been banned in the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships of the International Maritime Organization due to its serious toxic effects on marine life (such as the collapse of a French shellfish fishery).

Blue rockfish

Blue rockfish were once an important part of the California fishery; they were the most common rockfish marketed in San Francisco and San Diego during the 19th century, but have since declined in popularity.

Brightlingsea

Brightlingsea was for many years twinned with French oyster fishery port Marennes, Charente-Maritime, but the relationship fell into disuse.

Capricornia Cays National Park

The area is also of significance as a fishery, particularly for King Prawns These eight islands are part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and all surrounded by reefs.

Caraquet

Charles Robin and Company opened an important fishery in 1837, followed by that of Robert Young in 1850.

Cheekpoint

Cheekpoint was then only used as a fishery harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries and became famous for a certain type of small fishing craft called the Cheekpoint Prong which was 17 ft.6in.

Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

In the 1950s, the Pearl River Fishery Research Institute of CAFS made a technological breakthrough in the induced breeding of these carps, which has resulted in a rapid expansion of freshwater aquaculture in China.

Daniel Berthiaume

He currently lives in Hardy, Virginia, where he owns and operates Captain Bert's Fishin' Charters on Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, a freshwater striped bass fishery.

Ernest Schwiebert

Ernie Schwiebert was a pioneer in the fishery conservation movement and was involved in the founding of Trout Unlimited, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and the Federation of Fly Fishers.

Ernest William Lyons Holt

Two years later, he participated as assistant-naturalist in a fishery survey on the west coast of Ireland, organized by the Royal Dublin Society.

Fahamore

In the winter there is a managed fishery in Tralee Bay for the European oyster (Ostrea edulis).

Fajã Maria Pereira

The cliff is locally chosen on fishery founded including Sparisoma cretense and a few others.

Fish Wars

In 1974’s United States v. Washington, U.S. District Court Judge George Hugo Boldt stated that treaty right fishermen must be allowed to take up to 50% of all potential fishing harvests, and required that they have an equal voice in the management of the fishery.

Fishing in India

Most fishery training is provided by the Central Institute for Fishery Education in Mumbai, which has ancillary institutions in Barrackpore, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), and Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).

FORV Sagar Sampada

As of July 2012, Sagar Sampada has completed 303 oceanographic expeditions, which includes one expedition to the Southern Ocean in the winter of 1995-96 for surveying fishery resources in Antarctic waters (Krill Expedition, FIKEX 1995).

George Garland, Jr.

At the age of 14, he was sent to Trinity in Newfoundland to be trained in the fishery operated by his family.

Gustav Pietsch

He arrived on 10 January 1939 and founded the village of Neve Yam, where he continued to work as a nautical and fishery instructor.

Haijian 51

Haijian 51 was renamed CCG-2151 in July 2013, under a unified, newly established China Coast Guard, integrading the former China Marine Surveillance, China Fishery Authority, General Administration of Customs, Public Security Border Troops.

HMS Squirrel

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Squirrel after the animal, while four more carried the name while serving as the fishery protection vessel.

John Purss

The businessmen partnered with Jean-Baptiste Bouchette in 1765 to take advantage of his trading post and Gulf of Saint Lawrence fishery.

Jonathan Scott-Taylor

He was born in São Paulo, Brazil to English parents; his father was a consultant for the fishery industry in Brazil at the time.

Joseph M. McDade

Regionally, McDade was the principal advocate for the Tobyhanna Army Depot and was instrumental in establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, the Steamtown National Historic Site, and the National Fishery Laboratory in Wellsboro.

Knypersley Reservoir

The fishery is well known for its stocks of large fish, notably bream, but also includes roach, perch, pike and a few carp that due to their low numbers are not easy to catch.

Lake Tota

The average water temperature of 13°C allowed for the introduction of rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss) which created a valuable wild fishery (a mounted specimen in Restaurante Lucho, Aquitania, reportedly early in the 90's, weighed 7 kg) and cage culture aquaculture, but predation on native fish species as led to the now accepted extinction of the pez graso or grease fish (Rhizosomichthys totae) believed native to only this lake.

Lamberton Skerrs

An old fishery cottage stands on the cliffs overlooking the North Sea.

Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company

The Maldivian Skipjack Industry, a 100% pole and line process, is the dominant economic fishery activity in the country, and is also recognized as the most environmentally sustainable skipjack fishery in the world.

Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services

Records of river, drainage and water supply bodies in the East Midlands, including records of the Trent River Catchment Board; Trent River Board; Trent River Authority; Trent Fishery Board; Court of Sewers for the Level of Hatfield Chase; and The Hatfield Chase Corporation; Brigg Court of Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers; Trent Navigation Company; Records of the City of Nottingham Water Department; and records from Stoke Bardolph Sewage works and Bulcote Model Farm

Marienehe Charterhouse

The site was later used for the construction of the Heinkel works, and after the war for the Rostock Fischkombinat ("fishery centre").

Marine Stewardship Council

The year before, the salmon run of the Fraser River (a part of the fishery) was only 1.4 million (M) of a predicted 11 M salmon and had prompted the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a judicial enquiry.

The most controversial certification has been that of the Ross Sea Antarctic toothfish fishery.

MV Seaman Guard Ohio

The MV Seaman Guard Ohio is a Sierra Leone-flagged fishery patrol vessel (Call Sign: 9LA2125, IMO: 8410691, MMSI: 667004026) owned and operated by AdvanFort, a Virginia (USA) based Private Maritime Security Company (PMSC) that provides commercial anti-piracy protection services to merchant vessels.

National Invasive Species Act

Mitten crabs (Eriochir sinensis) from China were first sighted in San Francisco Bay in 1992, and are suspected of being purposely introduced to initiate a fishery.

No More Fish, No Fishermen

No More Fish, No Fishermen is a song, the lyrics for which were composed by Canadian folklorist Shelley Posen, about the demise of the Newfoundland fishery.

Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo

It was originally founded because its creators needed scientific basis to fishery and exploitation of all the available marine resources along the Brazilian coast, especially in the state of São Paulo.

Oyster buy-boat

A few of them were adapted for use in the Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishery during the 1970s and 80s but have since been retired, and some were used to haul seed oysters to replenish oyster reefs in Virginia and Maryland into the early 2000s.

RS Sjøfareren

In the late 1980s, Sjøfareren was leased and repainted for use by the Norwegian Coast Guard as a fishery inspection vessel.

Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet

He was elected Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1747 and went to Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck in 1752 as a delegate for the 'Society for Carrying on the Herring Fishery'.

Steven C. Hackett

In various projects he has analyzed California’s wetfish industry complex, California’s Dungeness crab fishery and associated processing sector, and the California and Oregon salmon fisheries.

Tille trevally

One such fishery is in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, where it and three lutjanids made up 50% of the catch, with C. tille the predominant carangid in the fishery.

Tiostrea chilensis

In New Zealand, they are a prized delicacy, and harvested from March to August from the Foveaux Strait oyster fishery based around the town of Bluff (hence the local name).

University of Brawijaya

Before this date, the Faculty of Fishery had operated since 1963, in Probolinggo, a town about three hours to the northeast from Malang, as a department under UB's Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture of University of Brawijaya.

Vefsna

Historically it was an important salmon fishery, but it has now been infected with the salmon parasite Gyrodactylus salaris.


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