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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Marine fishery

1. A management process involving step-wise evolution of a flexible management system in response to feedback information actively collected to check or test its performance (in biological, social, ...

commercial fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

A term related to the whole process of catching and marketing fish and shellfish for sale. It refers to and includes fisheries resources, fishermen, and related businesses.

value

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Market and nonmarket values, gross and net values, and net benefits to consumers or goods and services; 2. The contribution of an action or object to user-specified goals, objectives, or ...

water mass

Fishing; Marine fishery

A body of water that can be identified by its temperature and salinity.

opportunity costs

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Defined as the benefit foregone by using a resource for one purpose instead of its next best alternative. Typically applied to capital and labor inputs to reflect their real costs to society as ...

slot limit

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A limit on size of fish that may be kept-allows a harvester to keep fish under a minimum size and over a maximum size, but not those in between the minimum and maximum; 2. Size limits that allow ...