Fishing in sentence

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The economist Robert Jensen did this wonderful study a while back where he watched, in great detail, what happened to the fishing villages of Kerala, India, when they got mobile phones for the very first time.

But why do people want me to direct traffic, when I would much rather go fishing?

If we can do that, then I can spend all my time fishing, and I don't have to be a traffic cop anymore.

Most of the people who lived here either lived in coastal villages, fishing, or were nomads who roamed around with the environment trying to find water.

It's a no-take fishing zone.

We are a small fishing tribe situated on the southeastern tip of Long Island near the town of Southampton in New York.

Instead of spending more time at sea, trying to catch the few fish left, they stopped fishing completely.

But today, only two percent of the ocean is fully protected from fishing and other activities.

And there are two main types of fishing in the high seas.

Super trawlers, the largest fishing vessels in the ocean, have nets so large that they can hold a dozen 747 jets.

And fishing near the surface targets mostly species that migrate between the high seas and country's waters, like tuna and sharks.

And many of these species are threatened because of too much fishing and bad management.

Until now, it was difficult to know exactly, because countries have been very secretive about the long-distance fishing.

This is a long-liner, fishing around the southern coast of Africa.

After a few months fishing there, the boat goes to Japan to resupply, and shortly after, here it is, fishing around Madagascar.

This is a Russian trawler fishing, probably, for cod, in Russian waters, and then across the high seas of the north Atlantic.

Thanks to Global Fishing Watch, we have been able to track over 3,600 boats from more than 20 countries, fishing in the high seas.

They use satellite positioning and machine-learning technology to automatically identify if a boat is just sailing or fishing, which are the white spots here.

My colleague, Juan Mayorga, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has produced detailed maps of fishing effort, which means how much time and fuel is spent fishing in every pixel in the ocean.

China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Spain alone account for almost 80 percent of the fishing in the high seas.

So for the first time, we have been able to map the costs of fishing in the high seas.

Thanks to our colleagues at the University of British Columbia, we know how much every country is actually fishing.

Combined with the data on effort, we have been able to map the revenue of fishing the high seas.

So for the first time, we have been able to map the profitability of fishing in the high seas.

Red colors mean we are losing money by fishing in that part of the ocean.

First, recent investigations reveal the use of forced labor, or slave labor, in high seas fishing.

And second, every year, governments subsidize high seas fishing with more than four billion dollars.

Fishing is truly profitable in only half of the high seas fishing grounds.

So we have five countries doing most of the fishing in the high seas and the economics are dependent on huge government subsidies, and for some countries, on human rights violations.

What this economic analysis reveals, is that practically the entire high seas fishing proposition is misguided.

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