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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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Value added
Fishing; Marine fishery
The dollar value of a firm's output (i.e. harvest) minus the dollar value of the inputs it purchases from other firms.
Discard
Fishing; Marine fishery
To release or return fish to the sea, dead or alive, whether or not such fish are brought fully on board a fishing vessel.
Harvest specifications
Fishing; Marine fishery
The detailed regulations that make up management measures; for example, trawl footrope size, depth limits, net mesh-size, etc.
Stock assessment
Fishing; Marine fishery
The process of collecting and analysing biological and statistical information to determine the changes in the abundance of fishery stocks in response to fishing, and, to the extent possible, to ...
Stratified average catch per tow
Fishing; Marine fishery
From research vessel surveys, for separate species of fish, each average catch per tow, determined from a series of tows, in each geographic stratum of a region is multiplied by that area (square ...
Biogeography
Fishing; Marine fishery
The distribution of one or more species that is defined by abiotic factors (temperature, salinity, surface currents, etc. ).
Continental rise
Fishing; Marine fishery
Part of the continental margin; the ocean floor from the continental slope to the abyssal plain. The continental rise generally has a gentle slope and smooth topography.
