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Marine fishery
The study and management of living marine resources and their habitat for the sustainable use of those resources and continued productivity, abundance.
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bias
Fishing; Marine fishery
A systematic difference between the expected value of a statistical estimate, and the quantity it estimates.
pycnocline
Fishing; Marine fishery
1. The transitional zone in the water column between layers of two densities; 2. Pycnocline or sharp density gradients; this parcel includes the air-water interface. Pycnoclines are generally ...
natural mortality (M)
Fishing; Marine fishery
1. Deaths of fish from all causes except fishing (e.g. ageing, predation, cannibalism, disease, and perhaps increasingly pollution). It is often expressed as a rate that indicates the percentage of ...
regulative capacity
Fishing; Marine fishery
A population's tendency to revert towards some typical average level of abundance rather than to increase or decline indefinitely or to drift aimlessly. The regulative mechanisms by which this can ...
lagoon
Fishing; Marine fishery
Coastal water body entirely or almost entirely enclosed by a landmass with minimal connection to the sea; a shallow, sheltered body of water separated from the open sea by coral reefs, sand bars, or ...
fishery management unit (FMU)
Fishing; Marine fishery
A fishery or a portion of a fishery identified in a fishery management plan (FMP) relevant to the FMP's management objectives. The choice of stocks or species in an FMU depends upon the focus of FMP ...
