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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Marine fishery

A process in which a protected area is divided into discrete zones and particular human uses of each zone is permitted, often with conditions such as gear limitations in fishing and waste discharge ...

Thresholds

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Levels of environmental indicators beyond which a system undergoes significant changes; points at which stimuli provoke significant response; 2. A point or level at which new properties emerge ...

Separability

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Separability is the assumption, made in some age-structured stock assessment models (used to track changes in fishing mortality by fish age and by fishing year) that the fishing mortality matrix ...

Island

Fishing; Marine fishery

Emergent land mass larger than 1 square kilometre in area, completely surrounded by water. Also refers to aquatic habitats that are associated with land masses completely surrounded by water or ...

Executive Order 12866

Fishing; Marine fishery

A presidential Executive Order that, among other things, requires Federal agencies to assess the economic costs and benefits of all regulatory proposals and complete a regulatory impact analysis ...

La Niña

Fishing; Marine fishery

Climate anomaly opposite to El Niño with unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equitorial Pacific, leading to warmer winter temperatures in the southeastern United States and cooler temperatures ...

Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)

Fishing; Marine fishery

Enacted in 1980 to reduce the burden of regulatory and record-keeping requirements on small businesses organizations. The RFA requires that fishery management plans undergo a regulatory flexibility ...