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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Spawning substrate

Fishing; Marine fishery

The type of bottom habitat required by a fish species for spawning.

Euryhaline

Fishing; Marine fishery

Organisms able to tolerate a wide range of salinity.

Socio-economic

Fishing; Marine fishery

Pertaining to the combination or interaction of social and economic factors and involves topics such as distributional issues, labour market structure, social and opportunity costs, community ...

Area closure

Fishing; Marine fishery

The closure to fishing by particular gear(s) of an entire fishing ground, or a part of it, for the protection of a section of the population (e.g. spawners, juveniles), the whole population, or ...

Domestic annual processing (DAP)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The amount that will be domestically processed, based not only on physical capacity but on a demonstrated intent and the effects of domestic harvesting, markets, and other fisheries.

Tidal marsh

Fishing; Marine fishery

Low, flat marshland traversed by channels and tidal hollows and subject to tidal inundation. Normally, the only vegetation present are salt-tolerant bushes and grasses.