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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national standards

Fishing; Marine fishery

The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that a fishery management plan and its regulations meet ten national standards.

offshore waters

Fishing; Marine fishery

Waters located well beyond the shores (beyond the edge of the nearshore or inshore waters). Part of the oceanic environment.

The average size of a fish in a year class at the time when the instantaneous rate of natural mortality equals the instantaneous rate of growth in weight for the year-class as a whole. At this size, ...

shoal

Fishing; Marine fishery

School of fish, but usually at the surface or in shallow water.

relative abundance

Fishing; Marine fishery

Relative abundance is an estimate of actual or absolute abundance; usually stated as some kind of index; for example, as bottom trawl survey stratified mean catch per tow.