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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Sustainable use

Fishing; Marine fishery

The use of components of biological diversity in a way and at a rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of biological diversity, thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and ...

Demersal

Fishing; Marine fishery

Living in close relation with the bottom and depending on it. Cods, groupers, crabs, and lobsters are demersal resources. The term usually refers to the living mode of the adult, i.e. demersal ...

F-ratio

Fishing; Marine fishery

The ratio of fishing mortality on the oldest age group to the fishing mortality of the preceding age group. Annual F-ratios are estimable parameters in many virtual population analysis (VPA) ...