11. Commercial and recreational fishing fleets stayed in port. 12. Dwindling catches and environmental concerns have prompted Vietnam to push its fishing fleet farther out to sea, requiring larger, more powerful boats. 13. Finally, governments everywhere should rethink their old but now discredited practice of bailing out bloated and overcapitalized fishing fleets. 14. Florence was once an active timber port and harbor for a fishing fleet. 15. Gareth Porter, the researcher for the report recommends that the world fishing fleet be reduced by two-thirds in the hope that fish species can recover. 16. In Spain, the shaky government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez is loath to reduce the fishing fleet. 17. Japan is not the only country facing problems with its fishing fleet. 18. Moreover, the oversized fishing fleet keeps constant pressure on regulators to relax rules or re-open fishing grounds at the first sign of improvement. 19. She may be summoned to work at any hour, depending on when the fishing fleet comes in. 20. Tension along the Grand Banks has risen, with Canada threatening more such actions and with Spain sending a third patrol vessel on Thursday to protect its fishing fleet. |