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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Marine fishery

1. The variety and variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes ...

egg survey

Fishing; Marine fishery

A systematic and scientific estimation of the abundance of eggs (and larvae) in an area, through sampling at the bottom or in the water column with appropriate devices (e.g. small meshed midwater ...

race-to-fish

Fishing; Marine fishery

A pattern of fishing characterized by an increasing number of highly efficient vessels fishing at an increasing pace, with season length becoming shorter and shorter.

individual fishing quota (IFQ)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A type of limited entry, an allocation to an individual (a person or a legal entity, e.g. a vessel owner or company) of a right (privilege) to harvest a certain amount of fish in a certain period of ...

demography

Fishing; Marine fishery

A term referring to the study of birth rates, death rates, age distributions, and size of populations. It is a fundamental discipline within the larger field of population biology and ecology.

sustainability indicators

Fishing; Marine fishery

A variable, a pointer, an index of a complex phenomenon. Its fluctuations reveal the variations in components of the ecosystem, the resource, or the sector. The position and trend of the indicator ...

genetically modified organism

Fishing; Marine fishery

An organism in which humans by means of gene or cell technologies have altered the genetic material. These include the isolation, characterization, and modification of genes and their introduction ...