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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maximum expected log stationary yield (MELSY)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Maximum statistical expectation of the logarithm of long-term yield, considering uncertainties in parameter values and natural (process) variability.

water quality criteria

Fishing; Marine fishery

Specific levels of water quality desired for identified uses, including drinking, recreation, farming, fish production, propagation of other aquatic life, and agricultural and industrial processes.

resource rent

Fishing; Marine fishery

In the fisheries context, the value to fishers of the fish in the water before they are caught. It is usually a large component of the economic rent.

intrinsic rate of increase (z)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The change in the amount of harvestable stock, estimated by recruitment increases plus growth minus natural mortality.

downwelling

Fishing; Marine fishery

Hydroform created by convergence of surface currents that causes surface waters to sink, creating vertical and horizontal displacement of water and possibly carrying organisms to lower depths.

water column

Fishing; Marine fishery

The vertical column of seawater that extends from the surface to the bottom.

red tide

Fishing; Marine fishery

Proliferation of marine plankton that is toxic and often fatal to fish. This natural phenomenon is stimulated by phosphorus and other nutrients that are discharged into waterways by human beings. ...