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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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Domestic annual harvest (DAH)
Fishing; Marine fishery
The domestic annual fishing capacity, modified by other factors (such as economic factors), which will determine estimates of what the fleets will harvest.
Total length (TL)
Fishing; Marine fishery
The length of a fish defined as the straight-line distance from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail (caudal fin) while the fish is lying on its side, normally extended.
Licence limitation
Fishing; Marine fishery
Legally restricting the number of commercial fishermen licenced to fish. Often a management agency uses this as a means of limited entry.
Total catch
Fishing; Marine fishery
Total catch (optimum yield, OY). The landed catch plus discard mortality.
Fish stock
Fishing; Marine fishery
The living resources in the community or population from which catches are taken in a fishery. Use of the term fish stock usually implies that the particular population is more or less isolated from ...
Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA)
Fishing; Marine fishery
The SFA is a statute enacted in 1996 which amended the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Among its provisions were mandatory ovefishing elimination and stock rebuilding, the establishment of a programme to ...
