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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territorial sea

Fishing; Marine fishery

Extends 12 nautical miles offshore of the United States. States exercise authority over marine fisheries in waters from the coastline to 3 nautical miles offshore, and out to 9 nautical miles for ...

survival ratio

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Ratio of recruits to spawners (or parental biomass) in a stock-recruitment analysis. Changes in survival ratios indicate that the productivity of a stock is changing; 2. Number of fish alive ...

co-occurring stocks

Fishing; Marine fishery

Different stocks of fish that swim or school near one another, and may be caught together.

biological reference points

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A biological benchmark against which the abundance of the stock or the fishing mortality rate can be measured in order to determine its status. These reference points can be used as limits or ...

1. Management and conservation of the natural resource base, and the orientation of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the attainment of continued satisfaction of ...

scenario

Fishing; Marine fishery

A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key driving forces (e.g., rate of technology change, ...

biomass maximum sustainable yield (BMSY)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Long-term average biomass that would be achieved if fishing at a constant fishing mortality rate equal to FMSY; 2. The weight (biomass) of a group of fish necessary to produce maximum ...