(n.) The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
(n.) A place for catching fish.
(n.) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(2) This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.
(3) South Korean media said the fisheries ministry had come under fire from other ministries for announcing the plans without consulting them.
(4) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(5) Bertie Armstrong, the SFF chief executive, said the industry believed that quitting the EU and the common fisheries policy would bring “real and positive opportunities” for fishing communities , the largest of which are in the Scottish National party’s heartlands of north-east Scotland.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest For now, Morrissey has yet to respond to a statement from fisheries minister Gail Shea, who described the singer as " brainwashed by decades of propaganda ".
(7) Swathilekshmi, P. S. & Johnson, B. Migrant labourers in the primary sector of marine fisheries: A case study in Karnataka.
(8) Richard Benyon, UK fisheries minister, said: "This package of reforms fulfils our promise to make discards a thing of the past and ensure sustainable fishing for future generations.
(9) For services to Fisheries Management and Angling in North East Scotland.
(10) Potential in the Antipodes for production of unique and abundant fishery products is immense for both local and export markets.
(11) Then they got out of the oil business, buying supermarkets in the Caribbean, and later concentrating on a fishery subsidiary called Omega Protein.
(12) Lead researcher Denise Risch, from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration north-east fisheries science centre in Massachusetts, told the BBC : "Over the years there have been several suggestions, but no one was able to really show this species was producing the sound until now."
(13) There are giant fisheries and lanes for half of all commercial shipping.
(14) Some preliminary results from this database are presented and the importance of such information to the development of coastal reef fisheries is discussed.
(15) In 2009, the US Department of Commerce approved a plan to ban commercial fishing in the United States Arctic waters to be enforced until more information could be obtained to support sustainable fisheries management.
(16) When incorporated into a piggery for 500 pigs being planned by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the system should also reduce smell substantially both inside and outside the building.
(17) It seems likely, on current patterns of use, that our global fisheries will collapse by 2050 and, already, fresh water is becoming scarcer, placing global food security at ever greater hazard.
(18) Intel, too, seems to be moving in this direction: working with researchers from the University College Dublin, fisheries and the public works department, the chip manufacturer’s Leixlip, Ireland site has spent 15 years working to restore the Rye Water, a spawning ground for trout and salmon that leads to the Liffey River.
(19) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(20) We reaffirm our Johannesburg Plan of Implementation commitment to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and overcapacity taking into account the importance of this sector to developing countries, and we reiterate our commitment to conclude multilateral disciplines on fisheries subsidies which give effect to the WTO Doha Development Agenda and the Hong Kong Ministerial mandates to strengthen disciplines on subsidies in the fisheries sector, including through the prohibition of certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing, recognising that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation, taking into account the importance of the sector to development priorities, poverty reduction, and livelihood and food security concerns.
Shellfish
Definition:
(n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.
Example Sentences:
(1) To simulate naturally polluted shellfish as closely as technically possible, shellfish were polluted with minimal amounts of virus.
(2) Schemes employing solid media, such as the roll tube and pour plate methods, underestimated faecal contamination in shellfish tissue compared with a liquid MPN multiple test-tube method using minerals-modified-glutamate broth (MMGB) as primary enrichment medium.
(3) They harvest shellfish standing in the water or meandering through mangrove forests on the shore.
(4) We were unable to establish a significant relationship between the presence of the bacterium and that of its specific bacteriophages in the shellfish.
(5) These effects were observed in 5 and 10% shellfish feeding.
(6) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
(7) Provocation tests by eating foods such as eggs, meats, and shellfish reproduced the above-mentioned bladder disorders.
(8) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(9) injections of dinophysistoxin-1 and pectenotoxin-1, causative agents of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning.
(10) The shellfish also contained decarbamoyl toxins (dc-GTX II and dc-GTX-III) at approximately 2% of the total profile.
(11) These studies suggest the possibility that patients sensitized by exposure to caddis fly antigens could develop allergic reactions during their first exposure to shellfish or to their first bee sting.
(12) When the two thirds of the subjects who had been exposed were classified according to the frequency with which they had recently consumed any type of raw shellfish, there was a clear dose-response relation.
(13) Another shellfish sterol, 24-methylene cholesterol, also stimulated ACAT in human macrophages, but most of the xanthomatosis-related sterols did not stimulate ACAT.
(14) A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed to detect oxytetracycline (OTC) in three species of marine shellfish (Crassostrea gigas, Ruditapes philippinarum and Scrobicularia plana).
(15) Thin-layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography results indicate that Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NH-5 may produce paralytic shellfish poisons, mainly neo-saxitoxin and saxitoxin.
(16) Ten paralytic shellfish toxins [saxitoxin, neosaxitoxin, B-1, B-2, gonyautoxin 1, 2, and 3 (i.e., GTX-1, GTX-2, and GTX-3), C-1, C-2, and C-3] were oxidized at room temperature under mildly basic conditions with hydrogen peroxide or periodic acid.
(17) wt of 23,000 was identified in foot homogenate derived from paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) contaminated butter clams and was found to cross-react with crab-saxitoxin-induced protein (SIP) antiserum.
(18) A study was carried out to further evaluate the practicability of viral depuration by assaying individual shellfish.
(19) Other matters for investigation are: methods for quantitatively detecting viruses adsorbed on solids, the virus-removal capability of soils, better virus indicators, virus concentration in shellfish, the frequency of infection in man brought about by swallowing small numbers of viruses in water, the epidemiology of virus infection in man by the water route, the effect of viruses of nonhuman origin on man, and the occurrence of tumour-inducing agents in water.
(20) The control measures consisted of the prohibition of the harvest and sale of all bivalve mollusks as well as a public warning to avoid the consumption of such shellfish.