Marine fishery

Marine fishery

The study and management of living marine resources and their habitat for the sustainable use of those resources and continued productivity, abundance.

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Marine fishery

A fisheries policy is the definite course or method of action, selected from among alternatives, by a government or its mandated fisheries authority, in light of given conditions including legal and ...

fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Generally, a fishery is an activity leading to harvesting of fish. It may involve capture of wild fish or raising of fish through aquaculture; 2. A unit determined by an authority or other ...

Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistical Survey (MRFFS)

Fishing; Marine fishery

An annual national survey conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), in cooperation with the coastal states, to estimate the number, catch, and effort of recreational fishermen. It ...

annual total mortality rate

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The rate of death, usually in terms of a percentage of fish dying from a population in one year, due to both fishing and natural causes; 2. The ratio of the number of fish which die during a ...

gear restriction

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A type of input control used as a management tool whereby the amount and/or type of fishing gear used by fishers in a particular fishery is restricted by law; 2. Limits placed on the type, ...

factory trawler

Fishing; Marine fishery

A large stern trawler equipped with plant for gutting, filleting, freezing and storing fish, and for processing fish oil and fishmeal. Such vessels usually have extensive superstructures.

essential fish habitat (EFH)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Congress defined EFH as "those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding, or growth to maturity" (16 U. S. C. 1802(10)). The EFH guidelines under 50 CFR 600. 10 further ...