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.

Industry: Fishing

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cohort

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. In a stock, a group of fish generated during the same spawning season and born during the same time period; 2. In cold and temperate areas, where fish are long-lived, a cohort corresponds ...

sustainable yield

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Equilibrium yield; 2. The amount of biomass or the number of units that can be harvested currently in a fishery without compromising the ability of the population/ecosystem to regenerate itself.

Characteristic of information (e.g. stock abundance index) or an activity (e.g. research vessel survey) obtained or undertaken independently of the activity of the fishing sector. Intended to avoid ...

regulatory flexibility analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

Conducted for each fishery management plan (FMP) to study the costs and benefits that the plan may have on an individual small business or organization (e.g. a single fishing vessel). The Regulatory ...

estuary

Fishing; Marine fishery

A coastal ecological ecosystem that is partially enclosed, receives freshwater input from land, and has a horizontal fresh-salt salinity gradient; the average salinity of estuarine waters is defined ...

epifauna

Fishing; Marine fishery

Benthic fauna living on the substrate but not burrowing into it (as on a hard seafloor) or living on other organisms.

fish aggregating device (FAD)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Artificial or natural floating objects placed on the ocean surface, often anchored to the bottom, to attract several schooling fish species underneath, thus increasing their catchability.