tablefish造句

• One quarter of this catch was tablefish.
• In 1999 the total catch fell to 14 million tons; but tablefish accounted for less than 9 percent.
• Tablefish continue to decrease at more than 2 percent per year, and represent a declining proportion of the total fish catch for the North Atlantic, said Villy Christensen, a research fellow at UBC.
• UBC scientists estimate that in the last century the amount of North Atlantic fish harvested for human consumption _ or tablefish _ has decreased by 85 percent, from about 76 million tons to 11 million tons.
• The most effective method to stem the tablefish decline : create marine reserves _ in effect, oceanic wildlife preserves _ where all fishing is prohibited and the habitat is protected, say UBC scientists, Hutchings, and Roberts.
• NATGEO-TODAY-TABLEFISH _ Cold War era technology _ such as sonar, satellites and global positioning _ now used by the commercial fishing industry may be accelerating what researchers call a dramatic decline in fish stocks around the world, according to an unpublished study by scientists at the University of British Columbia in Canada.