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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Shoal

Fishing; Marine fishery

School of fish, but usually at the surface or in shallow water.

In the short-term, fishing capacity that exceeds the capacity required to capture and handle the allowable catch. In the long-term, fishing capacity that exceeds the level required to ensuring the ...

Equilibrium catch

Fishing; Marine fishery

The catch (in numbers) taken from a fish stock when it is in equilibrium with fishing of a given intensity, and (apart from the effects of environmental variation) its abundance is not changing from ...

Possession limit

Fishing; Marine fishery

The number and/or size of a species that a person can legally have at any one time. Applies to commercial and recreational fishermen. A possession limit generally does not apply to the wholesale ...

Runoff

Fishing; Marine fishery

Portion of rainfall, melted snow, or irrigation water that flows across the ground's surface and is eventually returned to streams. Runoff can pick up pollutants from air or land and carry them to ...

Geothermal vent

Fishing; Marine fishery

Submerged geoform consisting of a vent of hot, mineral-rich water on the ocean floor, generally located on or near spreading oceanic ridges or on the continental margins of subduction trenches.

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Federal agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and responsible for overseeing fisheries science and regulation of the fisheries.