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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Ecosystem

Fishing; Marine fishery

A geographically specified system of organisms, the environment, and the processes that control its dynamics. Humans are an integral part of an ecosystem.

Race-to-fish

Fishing; Marine fishery

A pattern of fishing characterised by an increasing number of highly efficient vessels fishing at an increasing pace, with season length becoming shorter and shorter.

Geographic information system (GIS)

A computer system for storage, analysis, and retrieval of information in which all data are spatially referenced by their geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude). In addition to primary data, ...

Surplus production

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The amount of biomass produced by the stock (through growth and recruitment) over and above that which is required to maintain the total stock biomass at a constant level between consecutive time ...

Production model

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The highest theoretical equilibrium yield that can be continuously taken (on average) from a stock under existing (average) environmental conditions without affecting significantly the ...

Catchability coefficient (q)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. In fisheries models, the factor (q) relates abundance to stock size (x = qN) and fishing mortality to fishing effort (F = qf). Following the latter, (q) is a measure of fishing mortality ...

Gear conflict

Fishing; Marine fishery

Conflicts between fishing gear on fishing grounds where one type of gear interferes with another type of gear. An example is where mobile trawling gear damages passive gear, such as lobster traps.