The National Marine Fisheries Service has looked into whether pumping millions of gallons of water per day could damage offshore fisheries by killing eggs and larvae with sudden temperature drops.
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Since this species of shark lives in the depths where deepwater fisheries operate, they can have a negative impact on the already uncommon species by being the bycatch of these offshore fisheries.
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:The federal government announced the Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel Project in 2006 to procure vessels that will be in length and be capable of carrying 22 to 26 crew as well as 19 scientists.
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In addition to providing port security and patrolling the nation's waterways, the Coast Guard has other duties such as inspecting recreational boats, commercial vessels, offshore fisheries and providing search and rescue for civilians at sea.
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He worked for several years as a biologist for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries ( later renamed as the National Marine Fisheries Service ) in Miami where he studied shrimp trawling and other kinds of offshore fisheries.
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The first phase of the procurement process for this vessel, along with the 3 offshore fisheries science vessels, was launched in September 2009 when the government issued a Solicitation of Interest and Qualification to identify qualified designers.
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"Albatross " returned to San Francisco on 11 December 1896 and, after a few weeks of voyage repairs, on 30 December began a provisional examination of the fishing grounds off the coast of Monterey, and in the vicinity of the Farallon Islands, to gather data for consideration in weighing the desirability of extending the limits of the offshore fisheries.
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This resulted in the government redefining the offshore fishery boundaries several times, and eventually extended its limits from 3 mi to 200 mi offshore, as part of its claim for an exclusive economic zone under the UNCLOS . In 1976, the government declared the right to manage the fisheries in an exclusive economic zone that extended to 200 mi offshore.
