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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standing stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The total weight of a group (or stock) of living organisms (e.g. fish, plankton) or of some defined fraction of it (e.g. spawners), in an area, at a particular time. Example: the spawning ...

trip limits

Fishing; Marine fishery

A quota that each fisher or vessel is allowed to catch per trip out to sea. Trip limits are the commercial equivalent of a recreational bag limit.

index of abundance

Fishing; Marine fishery

A relative measure of the abundance of a stock; for example, a time series of catch per unit effort data.

zero mortality rate goal (ZMRG)

A goal stated in the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) that the "incidental kill or incidental serious injury of marine mammals permitted in the course of commercial fishing operations be reduced ...

socio-economic benefits

Fishing; Marine fishery

Benefits to humans gained through utilization of resources, including both economic and social benefits.

metapopulation

Fishing; Marine fishery

A population that consists of a series of physically separate subpopulations linked by dispersal. Metapopulations persist as a result of a balance between extinctions of subpopulations and ...

risk

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. In general, the possibility of something undesirable happening, of harm or loss. A danger or a hazard. A factor, thing, element, or course involving some uncertain danger; 2. In ...