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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Transparency

Fishing; Marine fishery

The openness of governance processes and decision-making to stakeholders and the public.

Systems analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

The analysis and modelling of interrelated processes and operations with a view to designing a more efficient use of resources.

Fishing technique in which a net is dragged behind the vessel and retrieved when full of fish. This technique is used extensively in the harvest of pollock, cod, and other flatfish in North Pacific ...

Growth

Fishing; Marine fishery

Usually an individual fish's increase in length or weight with time. Also may refer to the increase in numbers of fish in a population with time.

Inshore waters

Fishing; Marine fishery

Waters of the shallower part of the continental shelf.

Fishery Conservation and Management Act (FCMA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 is the Federal law that created the regional fishery management councils and is the Federal government's basis for fisheries management in the U. ...

Heritage value

Fishing; Marine fishery

Site possessing historical, archaeological, architectural, technological, aesthetic, scientific, spiritual, social, traditional, or other special cultural significance associated with human activity.