Examples of using Drift-nets in English and their translations into Russian
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The vessels were using drift-nets several miles long and were believed to be targeting salmon.
Regulations could be established by each State on the size/length of drift-nets to be used.
Within the sanctuary, drift-nets would be completely banned, in connection with measures that would be taken by EU in early 2002.
Sweden has also initiated a follow-up programme concerning by-catches from fishing,inter alia, with drift-nets.
Other practices, such as fishing with explosives,poisons or drift-nets, have a major ecological impact.
Greenpeace International maintained that 600-700 Italian vessels fish in the Mediterranean Sea each year with 10-12 km-long drift-nets.
Greenpeace International reported that large-scale pelagic drift-nets continued to be used in the Mediterranean Sea.
Until the 1950s the size of drift-nets was necessarily limited by the weight of the natural fibres(hemp or cotton) of which they were made.
It added that the same legislation banned the landing ortransshipment of fish caught by drift-nets in Mauritius.
It also indicated that the use of large-scale pelagic drift-nets had not been reported on the adjacent high seas.
In this context, it welcomed the considerable efforts of some Governments andinterests to cease using long drift-nets.
Swedish fishing vessels have been using drift-nets to catch mackerel and herring in the Atlantic, mainly in the Kattegatt and the Skagerrak.
Morocco is developing a pelagic drift-net fishery and Moroccan fishermen have been buying drift-nets from Spanish suppliers.
One vessel was observed retrieving drift-nets with fish on deck andanother vessel was observed with uncovered drift-nets on deck.
It had publicized a March 1999 court decision prohibiting the possession,as well as use of, drift-nets longer than 2.5 kilometres.
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.
In its response of9 May 2000 to the Secretary-General, Panama stated that it did not authorize its large-scale fishing vessels to use drift-nets.
No vessel may keep on board, oruse for fishing, one or more drift-nets whose individual or total length is more than 2.5 kilometres.
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.
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.
The Italian fishermen maintain that operating in this fishery is not viable unless they can utilize large-scale pelagic drift-nets of at least 9 km in length.
States had also sought to regulate the use of drift-nets to internationally agreed standards i.e., with respect to net length and mode of deployment.
The European Community also indicated that a proposal had been submitted to its Council aimed at prohibiting all fishing with drift-nets as from 1 January 1998.
The European Union indicated that it had banned since 1998 the use of drift-nets by vessels flying the flag of States members of the European Community.
But this does not necessarily indicate that the fleet is decreasing.Greenpeace has been informed about contacts between interested parties to export Italian drift-nets to Tunisia.
These vessels shall be entered in a Community register andmay use drift-nets whose length may attain 2.5 kilometres, but whose total resulting length may not exceed 5 kilometres.
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.
Foreign fishing vessels equipped with large drift-nets have been apprehended andprosecuted for fishing in Australian waters and have had their drift-nets forfeited and destroyed.
This type of fishing was limited to the Moroccan Mediterranean coastal area anddid not bear any similarity with large-scale pelagic drift-nets, the use of which had been consistently denounced by Morocco.
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.