Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.

I was caught off guard when Stephen Colbert asked me a profound question, a profound question.

Suddenly, however, this secular commitment is no longer so clear.

The revolts themselves caught seasoned observers, even Arab leaders, off guard.

The main advantage of going through an official rationing is that people are able to know when and at what time they ll have their water interrupted so they can take precautions and are not caught by surprise.

Early on the morning of 26 June, however, two speedboats appeared from nowhere and seized the ship and crew, after menacing them with rifle fire.

Indeed, Colombia s Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and Brazil s Dilma Rousseff both skilled and experienced politicians were utterly unprepared for their countries protests.

By its own admission, Al Qaeda has been caught off guard, no doubt because the group s central argument has been that the fall of oppressive Arab governments could come only through violence.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's announcement that he plans to dismantle Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, as well as some settlements in the West Bank, has shocked and caught people off guard both in Israel and around the world.

Invaded by surprise by the Imperial German Army, which was approximately 600,000 men strong, the small, ill equipped, 117,000 strong Belgian army succeeded, for ten days, in holding the German army in front of Liège in 1914.

In western Europe, fishing vessel design is focused on compact boats with high catching power.

When what was a tranquil sea swallows up people, homes and long tail boats mercilessly, without warning and no one can tell you anything reliable about whether another one is coming, I'm not sure you'd want to calm down either.

The economy of the island is dependent on the fishing industry.

Large anti Japan demonstrations took place Saturday afternoon in the cities of Xi'an, Chengdu and Zhengzhou reportedly organized by university groups over the Internet through QQ and other social networking sites , the protests have taken many by surprise.

At the same time, decreasing catches forced small scale fishermen to increase the size of their vessels and fish farther from shore.

Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard. For days after Egypt erupted, the Muslim Brotherhood did not know how to react, making it seem out of touch with the Arab street.

The economic base of the city is fishing.

Net fishing

PARIS Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise? Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?

The Impact on Small Scale Artisanal Fishing

The rate of bycatch in the Atlantic longline fleet, for example, was found to be one half of the total catch.

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

He likes to hunt.

He likes fishing.

Fishing overcapacity

On the Republican side, hacks, spin masters, and many people who ought to have known better suddenly developed an extraordinary appreciation for something called the CPS Household Survey of Employment as a supposed guide to month to month changes in the labor market.

The fishing banks were divided into areas belonging to the nearest fishing base on land and further subdivided into fields where the boats were allowed to fish.

A hunting dog refers to a canine that hunts with or for humans.

Absence of control in the overall fishing effort and fishing practices of local fishers and foreign fishing vessels, prompted by the inadequacy of monitoring, control and surveillance, is the root cause of such unsustainable fishing practices.

Such an uncontrolled, unproductive process is known as ghost fishing .

Fishing overcapacity

The Costs of Bycatch

While close to 100 per cent of fishing ports in Iwate and Miyagi are now operational, just 30 per cent of fishing ports have reopened in Fukushima.

Another way of eliminating IUU fishing is to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

New technologies and increased fishing effort are not necessarily leading to higher profits in the longline fishery.

Fishing has been key for him to gain traditional knowledge and learn the Saami language.

Category 3 Hunting weapons and their ammunition.

Longlines are the most significant threat to these species' survival.

The regulations, dealing with licensing requirements, catch and hunting limits, and seasonal restrictions, are intended to advance objectives of conservation, safety and ethical hunting practices.

The fishers stand at the railing or on special platforms and fish with poles and lines.

He was accustomed to good fortune, for his huntsmen took precautions.

Pacific coastal groups of the period would have relied on fishing as the prime source of sustenance.

The Impact of Industrial Longline Fishing on Marine Biodiversity

Many regional fisheries councils and national governments inadequately report bycatch or do not have observers aboard to monitor let alone require fishers to implement bycatch mitigation gear or strategies.

Another source would be fisheries bycatch.