Pelagic fisheries

(a) Pelagic ecosystems

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing

Pelagic straddling stocks exist probably everywhere.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing

Some are benthic, but most are pelagic.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its

The situation of straddling pelagic stocks is less understood.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the

Large pelagic species also represent important straddling stocks for island countries.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the

The species diversity of pelagic ecosystems is low compared to benthic ecosystems.

The species are pelagic, often with neritic and oceanic phases in their life cycles.

large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the living marine resources

There is also the offshore longline pelagic fishery with only one longline vessel in operation.

Using a similar approach, it estimates that 22,500 pelagic birds were lost in its territory.

These can be broadly divided into the pelagic (water column) and the benthic (seabed) ecosystems.

This zone is probably the least studied and least understood part of the pelagic realm.

The understanding of how pelagic biodiversity varies with oceanic, regional and mesoscale oceanographic features is limited.

Below this depth, the biomass of pelagic organisms decreases exponentially and species diversity also apparently decreases steadily.

Concerned that the practice of large scale pelagic drift net fishing remains a threat to marine living resources,

Top predators, medium level predators, as well as sub surface pelagic and deep sea resources, show similar trends.

In high seas pelagic fisheries, catches of tuna and tuna like species have been increasing throughout the years.

quot The United Nations drift net moratorium forbids large scale pelagic drift net fishing on the high seas.

Expressing concern that the practice of large scale pelagic drift net fishing remains a threat to marine living resources,

However, below 3,000 metres, sometimes termed the abysso pelagic zone, cosmopolitanism increases (see also A 59 62 Add.1).

43. Large scale pelagic drift net fishing is a problem that emerged after the conclusion of the 1982 Convention.

8. The North West Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) reported that United Nations resolutions concerning large scale pelagic drift net fishing were endorsed by the members of NAFO and that large scale pelagic drift net fishing was not currently practised in the NAFO Convention Area.

quot 12. Little information is available concerning the use of large scale pelagic drift net vessels in the Atlantic Ocean.

These coastal reefs are also visited by pelagic species of red sea fish, including some of the 44 species of shark.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the living marine resources of the world apos s oceans and seas

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the living marine resources of the world apos s oceans and seas

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing and its impact on the living marine resources of the world apos s oceans and seas

Because this is a pelagic animal and it lives out in the deeper water, and because we weren't working on the bottom,

North of 50 south latitude, 86 of the main basin is covered by pelagic sediments, of which more than half is globigerina ooze.

The pelagic and benthic environments are high in biodiversity,5 suggesting a greater number of species exist in the sea than on land.

Unlike most other tunicates, they live in the pelagic zone, specifically in the upper sunlit portion of the ocean (photic zone) or sometimes deeper.

An abundance of large predators such as cetaceans are also attracted to these localities, which may be regarded as pelagic and benthic hot spots.

quot By 31 December 1992, furthermore, the Republic of Korea will impose a complete moratorium on large scale pelagic high seas drift net fishing.

quot 1. The Government of Japan decided not to issue licences for large scale pelagic drift net fishing on or after 1 January 1993.

quot 7. The European Community (EC) introduced regulation 345 92 in 1992 to govern the use of large scale pelagic drift nets by its members.

quot 1. The use of large scale pelagic drift nets for fishing in the territorial and adjacent waters of the United Arab Emirates is prohibited

In the bathypelagic zone, diversity of pelagic species appears to peak at around 1,000 metres partially because the mesopelagic and bathypelagic faunas mix at these depths.

There are also emerging molecular, chemical, optical and acoustical technologies, which will help to improve the understanding of biological diversity in the pelagic and benthic environments.