Fish farming

Fish farming

Of, or pertaining to the artificial mass cultivation of fish

Industry: Fishing

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fishing intensity

Fishing; Fish farming

1. Effective fishing effort. 2. Fishing effort per unit area 3. Effectiveness of fishing.

fishing mortality

Fishing; Fish farming

Deaths in a fish stock caused by fishing.

The catch which a particular gear or vessel takes from a given density of fish during a certain time interval. For example, larger vessels (horsepower) have a greater ability to catch more fish, thus ...

fmax

Fishing; Fish farming

The rate of fishing mortality for a given exploitation pattern rate of growth and natural mortality, that results in the maximum level of yield per recruit. This is the point that defines growth ...

foam fractionation

Fishing; Fish farming

See protein skimming.

growth overfishing

Fishing; Fish farming

The rate of fishing, as indicated by an equilibrium yield-per-recruit curve, greater than which the losses in weight from total mortality exceed the gain in weight due to growth. This point is ...