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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viscosity

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semi fluid. By analogy, in fisheries: the property of resistance of elements of a stock to move and mix together. As a consequence of stock ...

juvenile

Fishing; Marine fishery

A young fish or animal that has not reached sexual maturity.

high seas

Fishing; Marine fishery

All waters beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) (>200 nautical miles) of the United States and beyond any foreign nation's EEZ.

unit stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

A population of fish grouped together for assessment purposes, which may or may not include all the fish in a stock.

A ticket with a discounted fine that is issued to a fisherman prior to the issuance of a notice of violation and assessment (NOVA), offered only in cases where the violation is not contested. Allows ...

fishery economic assessment model (FEAM)

Fishing; Marine fishery

FEAM uses historical landings data, information on industry cost and margin structure (vessels and processors), and income multipliers generated by IMpact analysis for PLANing (IMPLAN), a regional ...

bootstrap

Fishing; Marine fishery

A statistical methodology used to quantify the uncertainty associated with estimates obtained from a model. The bootstrap is often based on Monte Carlo resampling of residuals from the initial model ...