Fish farming

Fish farming

Of, or pertaining to the artificial mass cultivation of fish

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anaerobic

Fishing; Fish farming

Literally without air, refers to an area where there is no dissolved oxygen in the water. While necessary for some things such as bacterial reduction of nitrate to nitrogen, these areas can also ...

A proportion or a segment of a fish stock which is removed for study, and is assumed to be representative of the whole. The greater the effort, in terms of both numbers and magnitude of the samples, ...

annual (or seasonal) total mortality rate

Fishing; Fish farming

The number of fish which die during a year (or season), divided by the initial number.

spawning stock biomass (SSB)

Fishing; Fish farming

The total weight of all sexually mature fish in the population. This quantity depends on year class abundance, the exploitation pattern, the rate of growth, fishing and natural mortality rates, the ...

aragonite

Fishing; Fish farming

The substance that makes up coral skeletons and coral sand. It's a form of CaCO3.

spawning stock biomass pe recruit (SSB/R)

Fishing; Fish farming

The expected lifetime contribution to the spawning stock biomass for a recruit of a specific age (e.g., per age 2 individual). For a given exploitation pattern, rate of growth, and natural mortality, ...