Moreover, the vessels fishing power had also been increasing a factory trawler built in 1995 would have two and half times the fishing power of a similar sized factory trawler built in 1980, and was provided with more advanced fishing technology.

Using Google Earth you can witness trawlers in China, the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico shaking the foundation of our life support system, leaving plumes of death in their path.

(a) The nature of the ships in question (e.g., fishing boats, tankers, trawlers etc.)

And some are caught in nets, in trawls.

So I actually developed a proposal to go out with a cargo ship and two decommissioned fishing trawlers, a crane, a chipping machine and a cold molding machine.

Due to its inability to police its waters, they are regularly overfished by illegal foreign trawlers.

Fishermen had been subjected to arbitrary arrest, confiscation of their boats and their fish harvest and the tearing up and confiscation of their nets.

Illegal fishing and processing by foreign trawlers and other vessels is becoming a matter of increasing concern to Somali leaders and coastal communities.

Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.

A number of fishermen have also been arrested, beaten and tortured and their boats and nets destroyed.

Those countries had introduced turtle exclusion devices in an attempt to reduce by catch from trawl fisheries.

182. WECAFC also reported that FAO had organized in Cuba in June 1997 a regional workshop that addressed the issue of by catch from shrimp trawlers.

We start with Sherman in a Chinese restaurant, who gets a fortune that he's about to get caught by a trawler, which he does.

Fishing boat.

The students, who will come mainly from developing countries, will be required to complete a three part hands on curriculum, which includes 6 weeks of core theory, 12 weeks of specialized training, and 6 weeks aboard either a research vessel or a trawler.

In another incident, fishermen had been taken off their boats, severely beaten, dragged into the area belonging to Egypt and left there.

There are hundreds of shrimp boats employed to drag booms instead of nets.

The resolution also recommended that the net, if longer than 1 km, ought to remain attached to the vessel.

Those are fishing boats!

This photograph I made of the fisherman holding the shrimp that he caught after towing his nets for one hour.

55. Greenpeace has pointed out that more than 80 per cent of the catch of the Italian drift net fishing fleet in the Mediterranean was made up of by catch.

In effect, the estimated cost attributed to bycatch includes only the time and equipment it takes to remove unwanted animals from nets, lines and boats.

In accordance with that policy, permission and or approval for drift net fishing had not been given to any fishing vessel.

Some of these intruding vessels have attacked local Somali fishermen and destroyed their boats and equipment.

The fishery regulations also address fishing capacity and bottom trawling through a sanctions regime for non compliance with conservation and management regulations.

Or at times, they would row out in their small currachs and kill it with a lance through the back of the neck.

According to news reports, a 90 km drift net was found aboard the fishing vessel, along with 50 tons of salmon.

On 25 May 1998, another Chinese drift net vessel had been fired on by Russian border guards in Russian waters of the Bering Sea, resulting in the loss of two lives aboard the fishing vessel.

Fishnet stockings.

Fish Net

Fishermen had also been shot at and their boats had been damaged.

Laporan tersebut menunjukkan bahwa kapal kapal asing ini berkontribusi pada penangkapan ikan yang berlebihan (overfishing) terhadap populasi ikan todak, kakap, marlin, dan hiu. Kapal kapal asing yang menggunakan pukat dasar (bottom trawl) melakukan penangkapan ikan yang tidak bertanggung jawab dan bertindak berdasarkan impunitas, menyeret jaring jaring berukuran besar, menghancurkan dasar laut dan merusak habitat laut yang vital seluas 120.000 kilometer persegi (46.000 mil persegi).

Large scale illegal fishing by foreign trawlers (complicated by recent drought and floods), and the cumulative effects of the long standing ban on livestock were infringing the economic and social rights of the people of Puntland and thwarting development in the region.

The vessels were using drift nets several miles long and were believed to be targeting salmon.

And as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.

The vessel left the port of Mombasa on 25 November and had sailed for about 18 hours when the crew was informed by the vessel's captain that they were actually destined for Somalia.

The regulation of the fisheries sector also covers national fishing vessels.

115. In addition, Australia indicated that in order to control fishing on straddling stocks in the Tasman Sea outside the Australian fishing zone, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority had also extended the application of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 to the adjacent area and implemented control over trawl fishing vessels through fishing permit conditions.

I also, with the story, wanted to show readers how fish are caught, some of the methods that are used to catch fish, like a bottom trawler, which is one of the most common methods in the world.

The restrictions relating to fishing gear, such as those concerning the size of the openings in trawl nets, and the allotment of fishing activities (the prohibition of fishing in certain areas and in certain seasons) had the goal of reducing fish discards.

In this connection, cooperative efforts resulted in the detection of six drift net vessels engaged in illegal fishing operations.

It's the fishing smack Santiago.

A number of delegations referred to the problems of by catches as well as to the issue of destructive fishing practices, in particular bottom trawling.

Through this policy, no drift net vessels or vessels directly supporting drift net vessels had been granted access to Australian ports and foreign fishing vessels equipped with large drift nets had been apprehended and prosecuted for fishing in Australian waters and had had their drift nets forfeited and subsequently destroyed.

The rehabilitation of fisheries resources consists of the installation of artificial reefs breeding and release of shrimp to rehabilitate stocks implementation of a programme to reduce the number of industrial trawlers as from 1993 rehabilitation of coral reefs research and monitoring of shrimp stocks and research and monitoring of demersal fish stocks.