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

beach

Fishing; Marine fishery

A sloped sediment shoreline composed of sand, gravel, cobble, mud, or boulder-sized sediments, sometimes with beach rock.

1. According to the National Standard Guidelines, "overfishing occurs whenever a stock or stock complex is subjected to a rate or level of fishing mortality that jeopardizes the capacity of a stock ...

yield-per-recruit analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

Analysis of how growth, natural mortality, and fishing interact to determine the best size of animals at which to start fishing them, and the most appropriate level of fishing mortality. The ...

social impact assessment

Fishing; Marine fishery

An evaluation of the likely outcomes and impacts of a specific policy or regulation on a designated target group or groups, as well as likely ripple effects to other groups.

sample

Fishing; Marine fishery

A proportion or a segment of a fish stock that 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, ...

bayesian

Fishing; Marine fishery

A formal statistical approach in which expert knowledge or beliefs are analyzed together with data. Bayesian methods make explicit use of probability for quantifying uncertainty. Bayesian methods ...

catch-at-age analysis (CAGEAN)

Fishing; Marine fishery

An analysis used to reconstruct the population history of long-lived fish stocks. They provide an estimate of the current "exploitable biomass" (the part of the population that can be fished), upon ...