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

point source

Fishing; Marine fishery

A source of sediment, nutrients, or contaminants into a water body that comes from one discharge location.

management objective

Fishing; Marine fishery

A formally established, more or less quantitative target that is actively sought and provides a direction for management action.

optimum yield (OY)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The harvest level for a species that achieves the greatest overall benefits, including economic, social, and biological considerations. Optimum yield (OY) is different from maximum sustainable ...

basin

Fishing; Marine fishery

Any large depression in which sediments are deposited.

ecosystem approach to fisheries (eaf)

Fishing; Marine fishery

An approach to fisheries management that strives to balance diverse societal objectives by taking into account the knowledge and uncertainties about biotic, abiotic, and human components of ...