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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Stock

Fishing; Marine fishery

A part of a fish population usually with a particular migration pattern, specific spawning grounds, and subject to a distinct fishery. A fish stock may be treated as a total or a spawning stock. ...

Tidal current

Fishing; Marine fishery

An alternating, horizontal movement of water associated with the rise and fall of the tide, these movements being caused by gravitational forces due to the relative motions of Moon, Sun, and Earth.

Subsistence fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

A fishery where the fish caught are shared and consumed directly by the families and kin of the fishers rather than being sold at the next larger market.

Stock structure

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The spatial organisation of a species in terms of the genetic structure of the species across geographic space (e.g., a species of large pelagic fish (tunas) may be composed of three separate ...

State of stocks

Fishing; Marine fishery

An appreciation of the situation of a stock, usually expressed as: protected, underexploited, intensively exploited, fully exploited, overexploited, depleted, extinct, or commercially extinct.

Policymaker

Fishing; Marine fishery

A person with power to influence or determine policies and practises at an international, national, regional, or local level.

Yield per recruit (Y/R or YPR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A model that estimates yield in terms of weight, but more often as a percentage of the maximum yield, for various combinations of natural mortality, fishing mortality, and time exposed to the ...