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

longliner

Fishing; Marine fishery

Vessel specifically designed to catch fish using the longline fishing method.

mark-recapture

Fishing; Marine fishery

The tagging and releasing of fish to be recaptured later in their life cycles. These studies are used to elucidate fish movement, migration, mortality, and growth to estimate population size.

biotic

Fishing; Marine fishery

Pertaining to the living components of their environment.

thermocline

Fishing; Marine fishery

Region below the surface layer of the sea or lake, where the temperature gradient increases abruptly (i.e. where temperature decreases rapidly with increasing depth). A thermocline may reach the ...

Requires that "conservation and management measures shall not discriminate between residents of different states. If it becomes necessary to allocate or assign fishing privileges among various U. S. ...

high seas resources

Fishing; Marine fishery

Resources distributed exclusively in the high seas, i.e. in waters beyond the areas of national jurisdiction (which can be 200 nautical miles or less) excluding species fixed on the continental shelf ...