Examples of using Drift-nets in English and their translations into Arabic
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Other practices, such as fishing with explosives, poisons or drift-nets, have a major ecological impact.
In this context, it welcomed the considerable efforts of some Governments andinterests to cease using long drift-nets.
Practically the only Swedish fishery carried out with drift-nets today is the salmon fishery.
Within the sanctuary, drift-nets would be completely banned, in connection with measures that would be taken by EU in early 2002.
Greenpeace has been informed aboutcontacts between interested parties to export Italian drift-nets to Tunisia.
Swedish fishing vessels have been using drift-nets to catch mackerel and herring in the Atlantic, mainly in the Kattegatt and the Skagerrak.
Norway stated that noneof its vessels were engaged in fishing operations using large-scale pelagic drift-nets on the high seas.
Drift-nets will still be authorized in the Baltic Sea, however, where by-catches of marine mammals are considered to pose much less of a problem.
Greenpeace International reported that large-scale pelagic drift-nets continued to be used in the Mediterranean Sea.
The SOPAC delegations reiterate their view that Governments havea responsibility to confiscate and destroy illegal drift-nets.
It was noted that in those areas several fishing vessels deployed drift-nets in excess of 2.5 km in length, although those fisheries were of minor importance.
Morocco is developing a pelagic drift-net fishery andMoroccan fishermen have been buying drift-nets from Spanish suppliers.
At the outset, it should be mentioned that the drift-nets being used by the Thai fisheries are of a different type from those referred to in decision 49/436.
We note progress made under theWellington Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Drift-nets in the South Pacific Region.
The drift-nets used by the Thai fishers thus have caused no impact on the living marine resources or marine ecosystem as required by the decision.".
It had publicized a March 1999 court decision prohibiting the possession,as well as use of, drift-nets longer than 2.5 kilometres.
These gill-netters operated bottom-set or mid-water drift-nets not exceeding 5 km in length to catch demersal or semi-pelagic fish species.
In its response of 9 May 2000 to the Secretary-General, Panama stated that it did notauthorize its large-scale fishing vessels to use drift-nets.
The first sightings of Italianvessels using large-scale high seas drift-nets in the western Mediterranean were reported by Spanish fishing boats from Cartagena, Carboneras and Xabia, as early as in March 1996.
Concerned also to ensure that the implementation of resolution 46/215 in some parts of the world does notresult in the transfer to other parts of the world of drift-nets that contravene the resolution.
Greenpeace has repeatedly warned that attempting to regulate drift-nets through means of a length limit was impossible for a fleet of over 700 vessels operating in both the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
In August 1997, European Conservation Italy in conjunction with Humane Society International conducted a sea andport survey near the north Sicilian coast where drift-nets are commonly used.
In its report dated 25 June 1995,Morocco informed the Secretary-General that drift-nets had been authorized only for artisanal coastal fishery without modern technical capability operating in areas under Moroccan jurisdiction.
In 1996, the United States indicated that its Coast Guard had issued a“Notice to Mariners”,seeking reports on vessels suspected of using high seas drift-nets in the North Pacific Ocean.
In a communication to the Secretary-General dated 3 January 1997,Turkey stated that Turkish fishermen did not use drift-nets in international or territorial waters since drift-net fishing was prohibited by Turkish authorities.
Greenpeace further stated that, considering the lack of control in international waters of the Mediterranean, it was very likely that fleets fromother countries used illegal large-scale drift-nets.
According to an Italian Government report, vessels from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Algeria,Malta and Albania were currently using high seas drift-nets in the Mediterranean Sea.
These efforts included measures to reduce dolphin mortality in tuna fisheries in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, the incidental mortality of sea turtles in commercial shrimp fisheries throughout the world,and efforts to enforce the worldwide ban on drift-nets.
Canada and the United States indicated that they continued to work with members of NPAFC to coordinate monitoring and surveillance efforts,which included targeting vessels using high seas drift-nets in the Convention Area.
Information provided by specialized agencies of the United Nations system 43. In its reply of 3 August 2000, FAO informed the Secretary-General that it had not beenadvised of any fishing involving large-scale pelagic drift-nets over the review period.