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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Fishery Management Council (FMC)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A regional fisheries management body established by the Magnuson-Stevens Act to manage fishery resources in eight designated regions of the United States.

Harvest guideline

Fishing; Marine fishery

A numerical harvest level that is a general objective, but not a quota. Attainment of a harvest guideline does not require a management response, but does prompt review of a fishery.

Fork length

Fishing; Marine fishery

A measurement used frequently for fish length when the tail has a fork shape. Projected straight distance between the tip of the snout and the fork of the tail.

Meristics

Fishing; Marine fishery

A series of measurements on a fish, such as scale counts, spine counts, or fin-ray counts, which are used to separate different populations or species of fish.

Recruitment (R)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The amount of fish added to the exploitable stock each year due to growth and/or migration into the fishing area. For example, the number of fish that grow to become vulnerable to the fishing ...

Actions that a fishery management council can take without passing an amendment to implement the regulation because the reasons for the action were prespecified in the fishery management plan (i.e. ...

Growth rate (K)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Annual or seasonal. The increase in weight of a fish per year (or season), divided by the initial weight; 2. In fish this is often measured in terms of the parameter K of the von Bertalanffy ...