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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substrate

Fishing; Marine fishery

Seafloor or other solid surface to which animals or plants attach, or on which they move.

survival rate

Fishing; Marine fishery

Number of fish alive after a specified time interval, divided by the initial number. Usually on a yearly basis.

shelf break

Fishing; Marine fishery

Region where the continental shelf and continental slope meet; i.e. where the more gently sloping region of the seabed adjacent to a landmass rather abruptly slopes steeply down towards the ocean ...

catcher-processor vessel

Fishing; Marine fishery

Vessel that can both catch and process the catch onboard. Also referred to as factory trawlers or freezer-longliners.

transnational fisheries

Fishing; Marine fishery

Fisheries in which the same resource stock(s) crosses the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of two or more countries.

catadromous

Fishing; Marine fishery

Fishes that spend most of their life in freshwater and then migrate into saltwater to spawn.

Form of resource ownership with a set of well-defined users capable of excluding other potential users and having well-understood rules regarding their rights and obligations with respect to other ...