VOA标准英语2012--Worries Grow About Decline in Asia's Fish Stocks
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Worries Grow About Decline in Asia's Fish Stocks
In the southern Philippines fishing town of Sindangan a certain scene is becoming more common across Asia, with soaring fish prices and falling wild fish catches.
A fisherman says more fishing boats are depleting 1 the region’s once-healthy fish stocks. Across the South China Sea, near-shore fish catches have declined since the 1980s, pushing fishermen to go offshore 2 with bigger boats.
Struggling fishermen
As the catches fall, United Nations fisheries official Benjamin Francisco said fishermen desperately 3 search for tactics to boost their haul.
“Some of them have degrees of destructive impact - the use of fine mesh 4 net, the use of dynamite 5 explosives for fishing - and other fishing gear… that catches juveniles 6 or those that harvest maturing spawning 7 stocks," said Francisco.
Such tactics degrade some species’ ability to regenerate 8. To tackle the problem, Francisco has been promoting a licensing 9 system to regulate the number of boats on the water.
Asia’s fishing fleets remain the world’s largest, accounting 10 for nearly three million of the world’s four million fishing vessels 11. And by most accounts those numbers are increasing.
In Hong Kong, there are even more ambitious efforts aimed at regulating fleets, banning trawling near the shore and spending more than $200 million to boost catches by small fishermen. So Ping-man of the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department is optimistic about their impact.
“…The catch value per unit effort will increase, almost doubling in 25 years time,” he said.
Hong Kong’s measures are costly 13 and out of reach for other countries in Asia.
"The issues are deeply rooted in poverty, the inability of local government to respond immediately, insufficiency of funds," said Francisco.
Sindangan town's fish warden 14, Julie Buot, said most of the fishermen here use fine mesh nets - gear that has been banned for years because it catches very young fish.
Depleting stocks
Wilfredo Ortega feeds a family of nine children from small-scale fishing. As monsoon 15 winds begin to hammer the seas, a last-ditch fishing excursion, earlier in the day, resulted in a catch worth only half a dollar.
"In these months, it’s quite tight [difficult]. We can only save [money] during the months of November, December, January. We can save by catching 16 young sardines 17," said Ortega.
The young sardines may sustain Ortega’s family now, but the catches today mean fewer mature fish tomorrow - and an even riskier 18 future for those who depend on fishing as a last resort.
- Regulations are outlawing certain refrigerants, such as chlorofluorocarbons, which contain ozone-depleting chemicals. 随后出台的政策禁用了部分制冷剂，如破坏臭氧层的氟氯碳化合物。
- Aging, being a series of continual losses, can be keenly depleting. 老龄化，作为一个系列的连续亏损，可以清楚地消耗。
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
- He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
- Their characters just don't mesh.他们的性格就是合不来。
- This is the net having half inch mesh.这是有半英寸网眼的网。
- The workmen detonated the dynamite.工人们把炸药引爆了。
- The philosopher was still political dynamite.那位哲学家仍旧是政治上的爆炸性人物。
- Do you think that punishment for violent crimes should be the same for juveniles and adults? 你对暴力犯罪的惩罚对于青少年和成人应一样吗？ 来自生活英语口语25天快训
- Juveniles Should we not exactly in need of such strength and conviction? 少年的我们难道不正是需要这种力量和信念吗？ 来自互联网
- Encounter sites have a small chance of spawning a "Commander" NPC. 遭遇战地区有很小的几率遇到NPC指挥官。
- Instantly revives your Champion at your Spawning Pool, 9 minute cooldown. 立即在出生地复活你的英雄，冷却时间9分钟。
- Their aim is to regenerate British industry.他们的目的是复兴英国的工业。
- Although it is not easy,you have the power to regenerate your life.尽管这不容易，但你有使生活重获新生的能力。
- A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句
- A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
- There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
- The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Financiers are calling for a relaxation of these stringent measures.金融家呼吁对这些严厉的措施予以放宽。
- Some of the conditions in the contract are too stringent.合同中有几项条件太苛刻。
- It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
- This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。
- He is the warden of an old people's home.他是一家养老院的管理员。
- The warden of the prison signed the release.监狱长签发释放令。
- The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
- The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。
- There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
- Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
- The young of some kinds of herring are canned as sardines. 有些种类的鲱鱼幼鱼可制成罐头。
- Sardines can be eaten fresh but are often preserved in tins. 沙丁鱼可以吃新鲜的，但常常是装听的。