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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Economic efficiency

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A measure of the size of consumer surplus and producer surplus. An increase in the combined surpluses is an increase in economic efficiency; 2. In commercial fishing, the point at which the ...

Allocation

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Distribution of the opportunity to fish among user groups or individuals. The share a user group gets is sometimes based on historic harvest amounts; 2. A quantity of catch, effort, or biomass ...

Social costs and benefits

Fishing; Marine fishery

Costs and benefits as seen from the perspective of society as a whole. These differ from private costs and benefits in being more inclusive (all costs and benefits borne by some member of society ...

Metapopulation

Fishing; Marine fishery

A population that consists of a series of physically separate subpopulations linked by dispersal. Metapopulations persist as a result of a balance between extinctions of subpopulations and ...

National Standard 6

Fishing; Marine fishery

Conservation and management measures shall take into account and allow for variations among, and contingencies in, fisheries, fishery resources, and catches.