(a.) Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents.
(adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main source of PCBs in the diet in Japan was inshore fishes, in contrast to fresh water fishes as in the U.S.A.
(2) The board requested that the position statement be changed, to in making decisions regarding port development, the potential impact on inshore biodiversity should be a key consideration.” Mooney has denied any conflict of interest, and said his employment in the coal industry had been declared.
(3) The result of the survey carried out is an smoker percentage of 81.15% among the fishermen of the inshore fishing fleet of Barbate.
(4) We study the introduction of tobacco habit among inshore fishermen of Barbate (Cádiz), for we consider that this is a highly receptive population to tobacco use because of hard work and its low socio-cultural level.
(5) The inshore areas of Tabarka and Bizerte are not submitted to the bacterian pollution.
(6) They defend the substitution of the smaller EU-backed inshore exercise Triton for Mare Nostrum, the Italian search-and-rescue exercise, in terms not of humanity but pragmatism.
(7) "Water quality in the region has declined markedly, especially in inshore areas adjacent to the developed coast."
(8) The authors present in this paper a study of the bacterial pollution of inshore waters of northern suburbs of Tunis, on the basis of 180 sampled collected in 15 different stations, 15 monthly (one for each station).
(9) They will be worse than useless, giving the illusion of protection where none is present.” The government said it was working to ensure management measures are put in place within two years, but Roberts said: “I am deeply skeptical of what it will achieve.” He said, for example, there are already moves to open up a “special area of conservation” in Cardigan Bay to scallop dredging : “It is one of the most destructive fishing methods in the world, turning habitats into rubble and leaving trails of dead and dying creatures in its wake.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bloody Henry starfish at the new Holderness Inshore MCZ.
(10) Sediments from four inshore industrial sites and a reference site in the Great Lakes were extracted with organic solvents to produce a crude extract, which was separated on alumina into two fractions: predominantly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; and predominantly nitrogen-containing polycyclic aromatic compounds.
(11) People could be illegally shooting the seals in fish-farming areas and at inshore fishing grounds.
(12) FEM medium was used to recover four marine type C isolates from inshore sediments collected along the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific coasts of the United States.
(13) The authority will not support port activities or developments in locations that have the potential to degrade inshore biodiversity.” Then at a meeting in September 2012, the port development position statement was watered down.
(14) The occurrence of MN in flounder from inshore Virginia was higher than in flounder from inshore Gulf of Maine and Block Island Sound.
(15) The benthic Trachinus vipera occurs to a depth of 50 m and migrates inshore during the summer.
(16) As political pressure builds in Europe to stem the migrant flow, a more controversial option is now on the table, with the EU considering a plan for naval craft to go inshore, joining Libyan patrols to intercept migrants as they embark and return them to shore.
(17) Gastric evacuation of the juvenile lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, a tropical inshore apex predator, was studied in the laboratory under conditions of 25 degrees C and 32% salinity.
(18) Carbon monoxide poisoning is a well recognized, but uncommon hazard of sport and inshore diving, which occurs either as a result of a faulty air compressor or from air contamination by the exhaust of nearby petrol engines.
(19) Levels of all metals in these tropical terns were predicted to be lower than those of terns nesting in temperate regions, because the tropical species feed offshore of non-industrial areas where contamination should be less than for temperature-nesting species that feed in inshore estuaries near industrialized areas.
(20) The US Navy said the infrared radar footage showed an Iranian “fast inshore attack craft” launching several rockets on 26 December “in close proximity” to the Truman, the guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley, the French naval frigate FS Provence and commercial ships in the busy waterway.
Offshore
Definition:
(a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(4) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
(5) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
(6) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
(7) Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.
(8) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(9) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(10) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(11) The biggest gain for most non-doms is the allowance for tax-free offshore capital growth.
(12) Between them the British and the Dutch have more than two-thirds of the offshore rigs.
(13) In January 2007 the Guardian disclosed that BAE had used an offshore front company, Red Diamond , to secretly pay £8.4m, 30% of the radar's ostensible price, into a Swiss account.
(14) Oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands along the Louisiana coast, and the political fallout from the spill has reached Washington, where the head of the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling resigned today.
(15) The South Africans were allegedly hired by a company with close ties to Gaddafi, training his presidential guard and handling some of his offshore financial dealings.
(16) In a tweet, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection denied the incident took place: “Reports of a disturbance at the Manus Offshore processing centre are false.” Detainees and staff on the island insist it did take place.
(17) The letter also criticises the decision to move pregnant women to offshore processing .
(18) The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean .
(19) A new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy will be piloted from the same project, and Statoil has also followed the trend and established a New Energy division for wind power and CCS.
(20) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.