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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Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The SFA is a statute enacted in 1996 which amended the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Among its provisions were mandatory ovefishing elimination and stock rebuilding, the establishment of a program to ...

total length (TL)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The length of a fish defined as the straight-line distance from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail (caudal fin) while the fish is lying on its side, normally extended.

transgenic

Fishing; Marine fishery

Organisms whose genetic makeup includes a gene or genes from another genus or species.

zero opportunity costs

Fishing; Marine fishery

Where the next best income alternative yields zero additional earnings.

sampling design

Fishing; Marine fishery

The sampling design of a scientific survey refers to the statistical techniques and methods adopted for selecting a sample and obtaining estimates of the survey variables from the selected sample.

instantaneous rate of recruitment

Number of fish that grow to catchable size per short interval of time, divided by the number of catchable fish already present at that time. Usually given on a yearly basis; that is, the figure just ...