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The harvesting of sea turtles to resupply passing sailing ships was the first major economic activity on the islands, but local stocks were depleted by the 1790s.
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* SeOhNyuh-A woman who was routinely harvesting mussels by the sea but was accidentally swept away to the ocean and eventually to Japan on a magically moving rock.
This was followed by extensive studies on sea snakes, marine turtles, bats, and other small mammals and studies on herpetofauna, biogeography, resource use, land use, rain-water harvesting and coral reef socioeconomics, in addition to protected area management planning, ecologically suitable management planning.
Humans are still listed as the leading threat to L. olivacea, responsible for unsustainable egg collection, slaughtering nesting females on the beach, and direct harvesting adults at sea for commercial sale of both the meat and hides < sup > 2 </ sup >.
This well has been interpreted as rainwater harvesting structure and the water is said to be clean and fresh ( though close to the sea ).
Shortly after, the aliens also start ' harvesting ' the land by sending up biological ' sea tanks ' which capture humans from seaside settlements, for reasons that are never made clear ; the Watsons witness one of these assaults on a Caribbean island.
These reductions are due to natural and man-made changes, including short-term atmospheric trends ( such as El Niño, which causes extremes in annual rainfall on the northern California coast ), predation by the California sea lion and Pacific harbor seal, and commercial timber harvesting.
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It was used by the people for the initiation of young males and for the harvesting of shellfish, turtles, dugongs and fish.
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Other scenes include goat herding, ship building, harvesting scenes, sailing, netting of birds, etc.
harvesting and ships
Industrial whaling emerged with organised fleets in the 17th century ; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries ; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale harvesting in the first half of the 20th century.
Notable unit changes include the Processor, Cataclysms adaption of the Resource Controller, which has medium-strength weapons to defend itself ; automated repair beams to heal nearby ships and four pads to dock with Workers harvesting resources.
In April – May 1503, Loronha's consortium outfitted a new expedition of six ships under captain Gonçalo Coelho, accompanied once again by Amerigo Vespucci, to scout the Brazilian coast and set up harvesting warehouses.
Resources are gathered by harvesting dust clouds and mineral-rich asteroids using special resource collector ships.
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For example, on Saint Lucia, harvesting mangrove for timber and clearing for fishing reduced the mangrove forests, resulting in a loss of habitat and spawning grounds for marine life that was unique to the area.
Dominica was officially neutral for the next century, but the attraction of its resources remained ; rival expeditions of English and French foresters were harvesting timber by the start of the 18th century.
Saltpetre harvesting was recorded by Dutch and German travelers as being common in even the smallest villages and was collected from the decomposition process of large dung hills specifically piled for the purpose.
Before the beginning of the 20th century, pearl hunting was the most common way of harvesting pearls.
In 1909, a walrus hide weighing was collected from an enormous bull in Franz Josef Land, while in August 1910, Jack Woodson shot a long walrus, harvesting its hide.
Cotton plantations required vast labor forces to hand-pick cotton, and it was not until the 1950s that reliable harvesting machinery was introduced into the South ( prior to this, cotton-harvesting machinery had been too clumsy to pick cotton without shredding the fibers ).
Starting with the 1970s, the focus was on harvesting the grapes at more advance degrees of ripeness and at higher Brix levels.
In sub-Saharan Africa irrigation reached the Niger River region cultures and civilizations by the first or second millennium BCE and was based on wet season flooding and water harvesting.
Though there was a division of labor between men and women, they also cooperated in carrying out many tasks, such as harvesting apples, food production, laundry, and gathering firewood.
Through the ages, the seasonal harvesting of snow and ice was a regular practice of most of the ancient cultures: Chinese, Greeks, Romans, Persians.
Since mango leaves are nutritionally inadequate for cattle, the practice of harvesting Indian Yellow was eventually declared to be inhumane.
There was also an " office of the future ," a climate-controlled " farm factory ," an automated offshore kelp and plankton harvesting farm, a vision of the schools of the future with " electronic storehouses of knowledge ," and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue.
In March 2006 the Falun Gong-affiliated Epoch Times published a number of articles alleging that the China was conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners.
All around the coast, the harvesting of fish ( including cod, herring, halibut, and other cold water species ) was an important supplement to farming and was in many areas in the north and west the primary household subsistence.
Cultivation and harvesting of crocus was first documented in the Mediterranean, notably on the island of Crete.
The Oosterschelde was originally to be dammed and turned into a fresh water lake, leading to the loss of the saltwater ecosystem and, consequently, the harvesting of oysters.
The return of Cato seems to have accelerated the enmity of Scipio Africanus, who was Consul, 194 BC and is said to have desired the command of the province in which Cato was harvesting notoriety.
Carpo ( Καρπώ ), Carpho or Xarpo was the one who brings food-though Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ) translates this name as " withering ") was in charge of autumn, ripening, and harvesting, as well as guarding the way to Mount Olympus and letting back the clouds surrounding the mountain if one of the gods left.
The north fountain was devoted to the Rivers, with allegorical figures representing the Rhone and the Rhine, the arts of the harvesting of flowers and fruits, harvesting and grape growing ; and the geniuses of river navigation, industry, and agriculture.
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In the late 1950s they succeeded in harvesting the first commercial quantities of European grapes in eastern North America.
During the first half of the 19th century, ice harvesting became big business in America.
The first model was designed shortly after World War II to be used in agriculture as a self-propelled machine providing a power take-off to operate saws in forests or harvesting machines on fields.
The degree of dehiscence is of importance in breeding for mechanised harvesting as is the insertion height of the first capsule.
During the county's early days, settlers relied first on agriculture ( cotton and oats ) then on cattle ranching, timber harvesting, and sand extraction as economic mainstays.
In the first half of the 20th century, King City was the heart of a Kentucky bluegrass seed harvesting region stretching from Kearney, Missouri through King City to Maitland, Missouri, which claimed to harvest more bluegrass seeds than the entire state of Kentucky with King City resident John Weller claiming to the be the " King of Blue Grass Raisers .".
Primarily a farming town at first, other industries grew up with the building of the Mayhew Turnpike in 1803, which connected the northern towns and lumber harvesting with the southern cities and mills.
The first Spanish speaking people families begin to settle in Metolius in the 1950s drawn by field work hoeing, irrigating and harvesting as well as working in the potato sheds.
Timber harvesting through the use of railroad was extensive in Klamath County for the first few decades of the 20th century.
Before the 19th century industrialization, the first furnaces in the four Walloon provinces and in the French Ardennes used charcoal for fuel, made from harvesting the Ardennes forest.
It was the first book about Korean farming, dealing with agricultural subjects such as planting, harvesting, and soil treatment.
Must be cooked as soon as possible after harvesting or the caps will first turn dark and unappetizing, then deliquesce and turn to ink.
In 1903, the first 500 farmers arrived ; by late 1904, 405 km² ( 100, 000 acres ) of valley were irrigated, with 10, 000 people settled on the land harvesting cotton, fruits, and vegetables.
In the 1980s author Gary Paul Nabhan visited this area, and found one farm family taking advantage of the first large rain in six years, planting seeds in the wet ground and harvesting a crop two months later.
Massey-Harris revolutionized grain harvesting in 1938 with the world's first self-propelled combine-the No. 20.
They are humanoid in appearance, and the autopsy of the first alien captured reveals that they are harvesting organs from the bodies of abducted humans.
Fogo Island first attracted Europeans because of the extensive opportunities for commodity harvesting, including seal skins and oil, lumber, fur-bearing animals, salmon, and of course cod.
It is believed to be an Australian first for harvesting stormwater for potable use.
He was the first clinician to practise muscle biopsy, the harvesting of in vivo tissue samples with an invention he called, " l ' emporte-pièce " ( Duchenne's trocar ).
Harry Holbert Turney-High, the first to write an extensive ethnography of the Ktunaxa, ( focusing on the American bands ), records a detailed description of the harvesting of the bark to make this canoe ( 67 ):
When harvesting switchgrass for hay, the first cutting occurs at the late boot stage – around mid-June.
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