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.

Industry: Fishing

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Marine fishery

A process in which a protected area is divided into discrete zones and particular human uses of each zone is permitted, often with conditions such as gear limitations in fishing and waste discharge ...

council

Fishing; Marine fishery

A regional fisheries management council (FMC). The Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 as amended created eight regional councils to prepare fishery management plans (FMPs) and FMP ...

rebuilding

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Implementing management measures that increase a fish stock to its target size1; 2. For a depleted stock, or population, taking action to allow it to grow back to a predefined target level. ...

underfished

Fishing; Marine fishery

Characteristic of a stock that may sustain catches higher than current ones.

exempted fishing permit

Fishing; Marine fishery

A permit issued by NMFS that allows exemptions from some fishery regulations for testing, public display, data collection, exploratory fishing, health and safety, environmental cleanup, and/or hazard ...

demand function

Fishing; Marine fishery

A function that relates the quantity of a good or service demanded to price. It is usually an inverse relationship where at higher (or lower) prices, less (or more) quantity is consumed. Other ...