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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mortality

Fishing; Marine fishery

Measures the rate of death of fish. Mortality occurs at all life stages of the population and tends to decrease with age. Death can be due to several factors such as pollution, starvation, and ...

head rope

Fishing; Marine fishery

The length of rope or wire in a trawl to which the top wings and cover netting are attached.

F10%

Fishing; Marine fishery

The fishing mortality rate that reduces the spawning stock biomass per recruit (SSB/R) to 10 % of the amount present in the absence of fishing.

wetland

Fishing; Marine fishery

Partially or permanently flooded, soft bottom flat that is vegetated by vascular plants.

generation time

Fishing; Marine fishery

In the context of the National Standard Guidelines, generation time is a measure of the time required for a female to produce a reproductively-active female offspring for use in setting maximum ...

endemism

Fishing; Marine fishery

Of or relating to a native species or population occurring under highly restricted conditions due to the presence of a unique environmental factor that limits its distribution.