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"purse seine" - Google News
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EU fishermen fall into line for bluefin tuna season - Reuters
EU fishermen fall into line for bluefin tuna season
Reuters
Industrial vessels that use a purse seine net, which floats the top of a long wall of netting on the surface while its bottom is weighted unde...
Trawling, seining limits costly to local herring boats - Gloucester Daily Times
Trawling, seining limits costly to local herring boats
Gloucester Daily Times
Now when you see a spot of fish (on the sounding machine or sonar), you go around it with a purse seine and take the whole t...
United States Implements WCPFC Tuna Conservation Commitments - Yokwe
United States Implements WCPFC Tuna Conservation Commitments
Yokwe
The regulation (Western and Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species: Fishing Restrictions and Observer Requirements in P...
Marine park will receive aid from Pacific Islands, China - FIS.com (Registro)
FIS.com (Registro)
Marine park will receive aid from Pacific Islands, China
FIS.com (Registro)
A sub-regional agreement outlining terms and conditions for a regional license permitting tuna purse seine f...
We test the fish-buying habits of major supermarkets - the london paper
We test the fish-buying habits of major supermarkets
the london paper
Purse seine nets These huge nets are used to encircle large shoals of fish and so-called because they are drawn together at the bott...
Alternatives to tuna - goodtoknow
goodtoknow
Alternatives to tuna
goodtoknow
'Purse Seine' net fishing can catch up to 7000 fish at a time, wiping out whole schools of tuna in one go, whereas line fishing almost always lets some ...
Danish herring fishery gets MSC certified in 10 months - World Fishing
Danish herring fishery gets MSC certified in 10 months
World Fishing
The DPPO currently has eight members who catch autumn spawning herring using purse seine and pelagic trawl nets in the North Sea betw...
Fishermen to be off the sea for 57 days - Times of India
Fishermen to be off the sea for 57 days
Times of India
There are a total of 2099 mechanized boats registered with the department and they include 88 purse seine boats, 919 trawlers, 1021 motorised boats...
Imagine a world without fish - BirdLife International
Imagine a world without fish
BirdLife International
However, 17 Pacific island nations recently set a global precedent by ensuring that over 50 million square kms of ocean will be closed to tuna purse-s...
Is it time to take tuna off the menu? - BBC News
BBC News
Is it time to take tuna off the menu?
BBC News
Skipjacks are caught using purse-seine nets, which encircle an area before being pulled together in the shape of a purse. "The trouble is,&quo...
Yahoo! News Search Results for "purse seine"
Yahoo! News Search Results for "purse seine"
Back in the day in Anacortes, July 1, 2009 (Anacortes American)
July 3, 1919 It was reported to the city council at its meeting last night that Heart Lake water is still being used to supply the city, in spite of t...
Trawling, seining limits costly to local herring boats (Gloucester Daily Times)
Stopping mid-water trawling and allowing purse seining only for large-scale summer herring harvesting within the Management Area 1-A have caused Glouc...
Danish herring fishery gets MSC certified in 10 months (Fishupdate.com)
The Danish Pelagic Producers? Organisation (DPPO) North Sea herring fishery has passed its MSC assessment in just 10 months.
EU fishermen fall into line for bluefin tuna season (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Jeremy Smith LUXEMBOURG, June 23 (Reuters) - European Union fishermen have largely complied with orders to stop over-trawling endan...
Activists attacked during peaceful inspection - Greenpeace (Malta Star)
Greenpeace condemned an attack on activists from the Rainbow Warrior as they attempted to carry out a ?peaceful inspection? of the Spanish fishing ves...
Greenpeace activists attacked during protest against EU fishing vessel (Fishu...
Greenpeace activists from the Rainbow Warrior have been violently attacked as they attempted to carry out a peaceful inspection of the Spanish fishing...
Virginia menhaden boats spill fish (Carteret County News-Times)
MOREHEAD CITY ? A Virginia-based menhaden fishing vessel spilled fish off the coast of Cape Lookout Monday, and that incident, coupled with complaints...
Honiara, Solomon Islands, Monday 15 June 2009 (Scoop.co.nz)
Fisheries officers from Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Indonesia and Philippines are in...
Boat owner fined $500K for illegal fishing in Pacific (Honolulu Advertiser)
The owner of a Republic of the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel has paid a $500,000 fine to the U.S. government for illegally fishing in protected wate...
Fishing vessel owner pays $500,000 fine (Soundings)
Earlier this month, the owner of a foreign-flagged fishing vessel paid a $500,000 fine for fishing illegally within U.S. waters of a remote central Pa...
