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

total allowable catch (TAC)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The annual recommended or specified regulated catch for a species or species group. The regional fishery management council sets the TAC from the range of acceptable biological catch (ABC).

indigenous fishing

Fishing; Marine fishery

Fishing undertaken by peoples native to a land or region.

over-exploitation

Fishing; Marine fishery

Rate of exploitation where the resource stock is drawn below the size that, on average, would support the long-term maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of the fishery.

nominal catch

Fishing; Marine fishery

The sum of the catches that are landed (expressed as live weight or equivalents). Nominal catches do not include unreported discards.

sedentary species

Fishing; Marine fishery

Organisms which, at the harvest stage, either are immobile on or under the seafloor or are unable to move except in constant physical contact with the seafloor or the subsoil.

The living resources in the community or population from which catches are taken in a fishery. Use of the term fish stock usually implies that the particular population is more or less isolated from ...