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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size limit

Fishing; Marine fishery

A minimum or maximum limit on the size of fish that may be legally be caught.

secretarial fishery management plan

Fishing; Marine fishery

A plan developed by the Secretary of Commerce in response to an emergency, a council's failure to act, or for highly migratory species.

regulatory impact review (RIR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A regulatory impact review (RIR) is required by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for all regulatory actions of public interest. It is the basis for determining whether any proposed ...

private costs and benefits

Fishing; Marine fishery

Costs and benefits directly felt by individual economic agents or groups as seen from their perspective (externalities imposed on others are ignored). Costs and benefits are valued at the prices ...

A layer of denser, saltier seawater that intrudes into coastal waters in the form of a wedge along the seabed and flows landward along the bottom in estuaries. The lighter freshwater from riverine ...

growth model

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A mathematical formula that describes the increase in length or weight of an individual fish with time; 2. A mathematical description or representation of the size of a living organism at its ...