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.

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industrial fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

A fishery for species not directly used for human food, e.g. Atlantic menhaden fishery.

invertebrate

Fishing; Marine fishery

Animals without a backbone. In fishery management terms, refers to shellfish, including lobsters, clams, shrimps, oysters, crabs, and sea urchins.

catchability coefficient (q)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. In fisheries models, the factor (q) relates abundance to stock size (x = qN) and fishing mortality to fishing effort (F = qf). Following the latter, (q) is a measure of fishing mortality ...

1. The amount of biomass produced by the stock (through growth and recruitment) over and above that which is required to maintain the total stock biomass at a constant level between consecutive time ...

gear conflict

Fishing; Marine fishery

Conflicts between fishing gear on fishing grounds where one type of gear interferes with another type of gear. An example is where mobile trawling gear damages passive gear, such as lobster traps.

decline

Fishing; Marine fishery

A decline is a reduction in the number of individuals, or a decrease of the area of distribution, the causes of which are either not known or not adequately controlled. It need not necessarily still ...

tradable permits

Fishing; Marine fishery

An economic policy instrument under which rights to discharge pollution or exploit resources can be exchanged through either a free or a controlled -permit- market. Examples include individual ...