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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National Standard 6

Fishing; Marine fishery

Conservation and management measures shall take into account and allow for variations among, and contingencies in, fisheries, fishery resources, and catches.

social costs and benefits

Fishing; Marine fishery

Costs and benefits as seen from the perspective of society as a whole. These differ from private costs and benefits in being more inclusive (all costs and benefits borne by some member of society ...

economic efficiency

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A measure of the size of consumer surplus and producer surplus. An increase in the combined surpluses is an increase in economic efficiency; 2. In commercial fishing, the point at which the ...

allocation

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Distribution of the opportunity to fish among user groups or individuals. The share a user group gets is sometimes based on historic harvest amounts; 2. A quantity of catch, effort, or biomass ...

social costs

Fishing; Marine fishery

Costs associated with the disruption of communities, households, and related social structures resulting in the loss of human potential.

code of federal regulations (CFR)

A codification of the regulations published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal government. The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas ...

input-output analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

A systematic method that both describes the financial linkages and network of input supplies and production which connect industries in a regional economy (however defined), and predicts the changes ...