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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spawning output per recruit (SPR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Amount of per capita spawning biomass (or other appropriate measure of reproductive output) obtained from a given value of fishing mortality, conditional values of partial recruitment, growth, ...

reference level

Fishing; Marine fishery

A particular level of an indicator (e.g. level of fishing effort, fishing mortality, or stock size) used as a benchmark for assessment and management performance.

state of stocks

Fishing; Marine fishery

An appreciation of the situation of a stock, usually expressed as: protected, underexploited, intensively exploited, fully exploited, overexploited, depleted, extinct, or commercially extinct.

general linear model (GLM)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A mathematical formula (model) that relates one biological factor to another. Once a mathematical relationship is established, scientists use the model to predict one factor over another; 2. A ...

stocking

Fishing; Marine fishery

The practice of putting artificially reared young fish into a sea, lake, or river. These are subsequently caught, preferably at a larger size.

The equipment used for fishing (e.g. gillnet, hand line, harpoon, haul seine, long line, bottom and midwater trawls, purse seine, rod-and-reel, pots and traps). Each of these gears can have multiple ...