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

1. The ability to sustain, harvest, hold, or process; 2. The maximum amount that can be produced per unit of time with existing plant and equipment, provided the availability of variable factors of ...

groundfish

Fishing; Marine fishery

Collective term loosely applied to most commercially harvested marine fish other than salmonids, scombrids, and clupeids. Although many groundfish are demersal (e.g. yellowtail flounder, yellowfin ...

cost-benefit analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A comparison of the economic benefits and costs of a project, policy, or regulation; 2. A comparison of the economic benefits of using a resource to the opportunity cost if the resource is used. ...

supporting services

Fishing; Marine fishery

Ecosystem services those are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services. Some examples include biomass production, production of atmospheric oxygen, soil formation and retention, ...

primary production

Fishing; Marine fishery

Assimilation (gross) or accumulation (net) of energy and nutrients by green plants and by organisms that use inorganic compounds as food.

elasmobranch

Fishing; Marine fishery

Describes a group of fish without a hard bony skeleton, including sharks, skates, and rays.

yield per recruit (Y/R or YPR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A model that estimates yield in terms of weight, but more often as a percentage of the maximum yield, for various combinations of natural mortality, fishing mortality, and time exposed to the ...