Thirty-seven percent of the Gulf is closed to fishing because of an accident involving a deepwater drilling operation.
The waters near the plant remain closed to fishing, and Japan has tightened its standards to keep any contaminated catch from reaching consumers.
Approximately 78, 600 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters remain closed to fishing in order to balance economic and public health concerns.
Huge areas have been closed to commercial fishing in the past due to mercury toxicity including most major rivers and the Great Lakes.
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So while their processor may not be seeing a lessening in the output based on what they had caught previous to this, obviously, because a huge portion of the Gulf is closed to commercial fishing, more shrimp is not coming in, right?
Anyone caught fishing on the closed off piers faces arrest or having their fishing equipment confiscated.
The fishing waters are closed.
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The region's seafood landings largely returned to normal in 2011, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration closed most of the Gulf to fishing during the blowout, NOAA data show.
Public footpaths were closed, and hunting, shooting, fishing and horse racing all suspended.
The section has been made safe but is closed to the public with tour boats and fishing vessels unable to use it.
Mr. BABBITT: Well, there was a nice compromise because President Clinton proclaimed a national marine sanctuary, which is about 80 percent of the way toward a national monument, which closed the area to most but not all fishing and set in motion a study of what kind of permanent protection there out to be.
In 2005, the anchovy fishing grounds in the Bay of Biscay were closed due to concerns over depleting stocks, and the new catch allowances are being seen as a way of ensuring a sustainable fishing industry.
Ten minutes later he walks out from behind a row of bushes, a stooped figure with his head down, wearing large black galoshes and holding a closed umbrella at his side while the rain pours down onto a limp fishing hat.
In the fishing port of San Antonio, nine of ten fishmeal plants have closed, and the tenth is handling 20 tonnes a day instead of its usual 100.
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