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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initial regulatory flexibility analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

An analysis required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

A certified person on board fishing vessels who collects scientific and technical information on the fishing operations and the catch. Observer programs can be used for monitoring fishing operations ...

catch

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. To undertake any activity that results in taking fish out of its environment dead or alive. To bring fish on board a vessel dead or alive; 2. The total number (or weight) of fish caught by ...

statistical model

Fishing; Marine fishery

A component of an estimation model, that defines the criteria for how the observations are fitted. Statistical models include least squares, maximum likelihood, Bayesian, and ad hoc procedures.

virgin biomass

Fishing; Marine fishery

The average biomass of a stock that has yet not been fished (in an equilibrium sense). Biomass of an unexploited (or quasi unexploited) stock. Rarely measured. Most often inferred from stock ...

Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The MMPA prohibits the harvest or harassment of marine mammals, although permits for incidental take of marine mammals while commercial fishing may be issued subject to regulation.

transitional

Fishing; Marine fishery

Relates usually to the more or less abrupt passage (or evolution) from one state, stage, subject, or place to another. In fishery science, refers to what happens between two equilibrium states ...