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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depleted stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

A stock driven by fishing to very low level of abundance compared to historical levels, with dramatically reduced spawning biomass and reproductive capacity. It requires particularly energetic ...

smolt

Fishing; Marine fishery

An adolescent salmon which has metamorphosed and which is found on its way downstream toward the sea.

A value that quantifies how much a population can grow between successive time periods. The intrinsic growth rate is often estimated with production models and plays an important role in evaluating ...

parameter

Fishing; Marine fishery

A "constant" or numerical description of some property of a population (which may be real or imaginary).

control rule

Fishing; Marine fishery

Describes a plan for pre-agreed management actions as a function of variables related to the status of stock in question. For example, a control rule can specific how fishing mortality or yield ...

quota shares

Fishing; Marine fishery

A share of the total allowable catch (TAC) allocated to an operating unit such as a vessel, a company or an individual fisherman (individual fishing quota, IFQ) depending on the system of allocation. ...