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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network marine protected areas

Fishing; Marine fishery

A group of reserves designed to meet objectives that single reserves cannot achieve on their own. Networks of reserves are linked by dispersal of marine organisms and by ocean currents.

optimum sustainable population (OSP)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Defined by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as, "with respect to any population stock, the number of animals which will result in the maximum productivity of the population or the species, ...

A method employing a hypothetical market to elicit people's preferences for a non-market good; typically people are questioned about what they are willing to pay or receive for specific increments or ...

latent species

Fishing; Marine fishery

A species of fish that has the potential to support a directed fishery.

hydrothermal vent

Fishing; Marine fishery

A place on the seafloor, generally associated with spreading centers, where warm to super-hot, mineral-rich water is released; may support a diverse community of organisms.