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

emergency action (EA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A fishery management council (FMC) may decide to propose an EA when a problem arises in a fishery that requires regulations sooner than a fishery management plan amendment can be proposed and ...

An apparatus that uses sound waves to detect objects underwater by measuring or classifying the echoes received from them. An echo sounder is a sonar that transmits vertically. In practice, a sonar ...

midwater

Fishing; Marine fishery

Any part of the water column between the surface and the seafloor. Fish living at the surface or on the seafloor do not live in midwater.

rent

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. In a sole ownership fishery, the difference between the total revenues obtained from the fishery resource and the total costs of production, i.e. capital and labor valued at their opportunity ...

risk assessment

Fishing; Marine fishery

A process of evaluation including the identification of the attendant uncertainties, of the likelihood and severity of an adverse effect(s)/event(s) occurring to man or the environment following ...

surface water

Fishing; Marine fishery

All water naturally open to the atmosphere, including rivers, lakes, reservoirs, streams, impoundments, seas, estuaries, and so on. The term also covers springs, wells or other collectors of water ...

control date

Fishing; Marine fishery

Date established for defining the pool of potential participants in a given management program. Control dates can establish a range of years during which a potential participant must have been ...