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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Overcapitalization

Fishing; Marine fishery

Where the amount of harvesting capacity in a fishery exceeds the amount needed to harvest the desired amount of fish at least cost.

Saltonstall-Kennedy Act (SK Funds)

The Saltonstall-Kennedy Act allocates 30% of the collected duties for imported fishery products to technological, biological, marketing, and other research and services in order to promote the free ...

Lifespan

Fishing; Marine fishery

The maximum expected age, on average, for a species, cohort, stock, or a population in the absence of fishing or human-induced mortality. Lifespan is inversely proportional to natural mortality. ...

Length-frequency distribution

Fishing; Marine fishery

The number of individuals of a catch or catch sample in each length interval. The modal size is the length group with the higher number of individuals. Distributions may be uni- or bimodal but are ...

Small-scale producers

Fishing; Marine fishery

Producers operating at a small scale, used to distinguish from industrialised producers. In truth, the line separating small and large-scale producers is arbitrary. What is considered small scale ...

Predator-prey relationship

Fishing; Marine fishery

The interaction between a species (predator) that eats another species (prey). The stages of each species' life cycle and the degree of interaction are important factors.