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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Water mass

Fishing; Marine fishery

A body of water that can be identified by its temperature and salinity.

Individual fishing quota (IFQ)

A type of limited entry, an allocation to an individual (a person or a legal entity, e.g. a vessel owner or company) of a right (privilege) to harvest a certain amount of fish in a certain period of ...

Egg survey

Fishing; Marine fishery

A systematic and scientific estimation of the abundance of eggs (and larvae) in an area, through sampling at the bottom or in the water column with appropriate devices (e.g. small meshed midwater ...

Seamount

Fishing; Marine fishery

A large isolated elevation rising more than 1,000 metres above the sea floor, and characteristically of conical form. (Notable examples include Shimada Seamount in the Eastern Equatorial North ...

Regression analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

A statistical method to estimate any trends that might exist among important factors; an example in fisheries management is the link between catch and other factors like fishing effort and natural ...

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Condition in humans caused by the ingestion of bivalve mollusks that have accumulated dangerous levels of neurotoxins from plankton.

Licence

Fishing; Marine fishery

Also known as permit. A licence or permit is a document giving the producer the right to operate in a fishery according to the terms established by the regulating authority.