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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Marine fishery

Fishing activities that do not cause or lead to undesirable changes in the biological and economic productivity, biological diversity, or ecosystem structure and functioning from one human generation ...

Permit stacking

Fishing; Marine fishery

The registration of more than one limited entry permit for a single vessel, where a vessel is allowed additional catch for each additional permit registered for use with the vessel.

Retention curve

Fishing; Marine fishery

Relationship between the size (age) of a fish and its probability to be retained by the gear (a hook, a webbing, a mesh, a trap) after encountering it.

River plume

Fishing; Marine fishery

Turbid freshwater flowing from land and generally in the distal part of a river (mouth) outside the bounds of an estuary or river channel.

Simulation

Fishing; Marine fishery

In fisheries, the use of a body of numerical techniques and specified inputs to reproduce by calculations the functioning of a stock or fishery.

Utilised stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

The part, by number, of the fish alive at a given time, which will be caught in future.

Maximum spawning potential (MSP)

Fishing; Marine fishery

This type of reference point is used in some fishery management plans to define overfishing. The MSP is the spawning stock biomass per recruit (SSB/R) when fishing mortality is zero. The degree to ...