Karen Sack, Oceans Policy Advisor, Greenpeace International, called for action to address deep sea bottom trawling.

The Pacific Islands Forum addressed the need for management of deep sea bottom trawling at its Leaders meeting in October.

In that context, my country is following with interest the efforts aimed at establishing a moratorium on deep sea bottom trawling.

We reiterate our concern at the insufficiency of scientific information on the destructive environmental impact of deep sea fishing practices, in particular bottom trawling.

So within three years, from 2003 to 2006, we were able to get norm in place that actually changed the paradigm of how fishers went about deep sea bottom trawling.

Complex and unique ecologies, most notably underground volcanoes known as seamounts, are ripped to shreds, because bottom trawling is the low cost way to catch a few deep sea fish species.

Palau will continue to raise the issue of a prohibition on deep sea bottom trawling at all international forums until the legal infrastructure is in place to deal with that destructive practice.

In addition, we want to emphasize that, in accordance with resolution 59 25, consideration of substantive questions associated with the impact of deep sea bottom trawling on vulnerable marine ecosystems shall not be resumed until next fall.

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In the communiqué issued by the Pacific Islands Forum in October this year, Forum leaders noted the call for a moratorium on deep sea bottom trawling and for the creation of a legal framework to manage that method of fishing in order to protect biodiversity in the high seas.

Midwater trawling is trawling, or net fishing, at a depth that is higher in the water column than the bottom of the ocean.

The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with me.'

And I was luck enough to capture one of these when we were on a trawling expedition off the northwest coast of Africa for Blue Planet, for the deep portion of Blue Planet.

Trawl doors are available in various sizes and shapes and may be specialized to keep in contact with the sea bottom (bottom trawling) or to remain elevated in the water.

Here, we support the unanimous decision taken by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, which bans trawling in the high seas where the sea depth is greater than 1000 metres.

The family as a whole may represent up to 15 of the deep sea fish population.

So it's a deep think about it in a big three dimensional space, very deep three dimensional space with herds of tuna, whales, all kinds of deep sea marine life like we've seen here before.

This is surely one of the biggest reasons for the lax regulation of deep sea oil drilling.

Deep water circulation is controlled primarily by inflows from the Atlantic Ocean, the Red Sea, and Antarctic currents.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

But, compared to British Petroleum s efforts to plug its deep sea oil hole, the G 20 leaders look omnipotent.

Exploration In 1949, a deep water survey reported anomalously hot brines in the central portion of the Red Sea.

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Since then, I've used about 30 kinds of submarines and I've started three companies and a nonprofit foundation called Deep Search to design and build systems to access the deep sea.

The deep sea or deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms (1800 m) or more.

So called fishing expeditions indiscriminate trawling through bank accounts remain out of bounds.

We should not limit our focus simply to the issue of bottom trawling.

The Committee carries out assessments of port facilities, approves port facility protection plans and evaluates coastal and deep sea vessels.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

This isn t rocket science or capping deep sea oil blowouts. These are problems that we have long known how to solve.

Narrator In front of the sub, a mess screen will come into contact with the soft bodied creatures of the deep sea.

In particular, deep sea fishing resources in Anguilla's 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone can be sustainably exploited to satisfy markets locally and regionally.

At over deep, it is one of the deepest lakes in Europe, and the bottom of the lake is more than below sea level.

The most noticeable of these are the fjords deep grooves cut into the land flooded by the sea following the end of the Ice Age.

Officially, the major functioning ports in Somalia for deep sea and major vessels are Berbera, Boosaaso and Kismaayo. The port at Mogadishu is still closed.

Although the deepest point inside of the sea is 4846 meters, depths down to 5570 meters have been measured in the Molloy Deep of the Fram Strait which connects the sea to the Arctic Ocean on the north.

However, recent investigations have revealed that some of the so called smaller ports and coastal landing places are also capable of handling some deep sea vessels.

The library manages the Authority's specialized collection of reference and research materials focusing on matters relating to the law of the sea and deep seabed mining.

Expressing deep concern on the dumping by Israel of Highly toxic radioactive and chemical wastes in the Mediterranean Sea and particularly in the Lebanese regional waters

An AFC led consortium is financing a project that will develop Sub Saharan Africa s first deep sea container port on the Atlantic coastline area of Olokola, Nigeria.

The Magdalena River is generally navigable from the Caribbean Sea as far as the town of Neiva, deep in the interior, but is interrupted midway by rapids.

Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.

The third panellist, Matthew Gianni, international fisheries consultant, proposed measures to address bottom trawling and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.