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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Landings data

Fishing; Marine fishery

Information on the amount of fish caught and landed per year.

Set of measures taken to implement the Precautionary Principle. A set of agreed cost-effective measures and actions, including future courses of action, which ensures prudent foresight, reduces or ...

Advisory panel (AP)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Provides additional review and stakeholder perspective to a regional fishery management council (FMC) for proposed actions and draught amendments to fishery management plans (FMPs). The advisory ...

Fishery reserve

Fishing; Marine fishery

Zoning that precludes fishing activity on some or all species to protect critical habitat, rebuild stocks (long term, but not necessarily permanent closure), provide insurance against overfishing, or ...

Size samples

Fishing; Marine fishery

Refers to samples taken from the catch (from the landings) in order to determine the size distribution of the catches. This information is important for stock assessments (particularly for ...

Mean generation time

Fishing; Marine fishery

The average time it takes for a sexually mature female fish to be replaced by an offspring with the same reproductive capacity; used in setting maximum allowable rebuilding time periods in rebuilding ...