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

fishery conservation zone (FCZ)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The FCZ is the area from the seaward limit of state waters out to 200 nautical miles. Since 1981, it is referred to as the U. S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

total catch

Fishing; Marine fishery

Total catch (optimum yield, OY). The landed catch plus discard mortality.

The procedure of maintaining methods and equipment as constant as possible. Without standardization one cannot determine whether measurements of yearly differences in relative abundance are caused ...

fextinction (FT)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Fishing mortality rate corresponding to an equilibrium spawning potential ratio equal to the inverse of the survival ratio at the origin of the stock-recruitment relationship. A stock fished at or ...

shoaling fish

Fishing; Marine fishery

Species of relatively small (usually pelagic) fish that congregate in large schools, such as anchoveta and sardines.

limited entry fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

Fishery where the number of operators (and size of boats) is restricted through license limitation or quota systems, to control the amount of fishing effort. It frequently involves controls on the ...