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.

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Stated preference methods

Fishing; Marine fishery

General category of valuation methods that includes contingent choice and contingent valuation techniques. Individuals are asked to makes choices concerning their willingness to pay (or accept ...

The yield in weight taken from a fish stock when it is in equilibrium with fishing of a given intensity, and (apart from effects of environmental variation) its biomass is not changing from one year ...

Social factors

Fishing; Marine fishery

In addition to factors related to economics such as benefits, capital, and labor, considerations such as social structure and social organization, people's knowledge and views (norms and values) ...

Modelling

Fishing; Marine fishery

The construction of physical, conceptual, or mathematical simulations of the real world. Models help to show relationships between processes (physical, economic, or social) and may be used to ...

Maximum time period (TMAX)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The maximum time period to rebuild an overfished stock, according to National Standard Guidelines. Depends on biological, environmental, and legal/policy factors.

Species diversity

Fishing; Marine fishery

The variety of species in a community, which can be expressed quantitatively in ways which reflect both the total number of species present and the extent to which the system is dominated by a small ...