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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Marine fishery

Point source

Fishing; Marine fishery

A source of sediment, nutrients, or contaminants into a water body that comes from one discharge location.

Bayesian

Fishing; Marine fishery

A formal statistical approach in which expert knowledge or beliefs are analysed together with data. Bayesian methods make explicit use of probability for quantifying uncertainty. Bayesian methods ...

Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)

A long-term pattern of Pacific Ocean climate variability, with events lasting 20 to 30 years and oscillating between warm and cool regimes. Unlike the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North ...

Environmental protection agency (EPA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A Federal agency charged with enforcing numerous environmental laws (including the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the State Drinking Water Act) and supporting state and local governments in ...

Population model

Fishing; Marine fishery

A component of a stock assessment model, made up of formulations that describe how the population changes from one time period to the next. The types of population models vary depending on the ...

Salt marsh

Fishing; Marine fishery

A macrohabitat comprised of emergent rooted macrophytes in a soft sedimentary substrate tolerant of long periods of partial submersion along the shores of estuaries and sheltered coasts.

Virgin stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

A stock of fish with no commercial or recreational harvest. A virgin stock changes only in relation to environmental factors and its own growth, recruitment, and natural mortality.