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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Limited entry

Fishing; Marine fishery

A programme that changes a common property resource like fish into private property for individual fishermen. licence limitation and individual transferable quotas (ITQ) are two forms of limited ...

Large marine ecosystem (LME)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A geographic area of an ocean that has distinct bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically dependent populations.

Mudflat

Fishing; Marine fishery

A muddy bottom that is exposed at low tide.

A share of the total allowable catch (TAC) allocated to an operating unit such as a vessel, a company or an individual fisherman (individual fishing quota, IFQ) depending on the system of allocation. ...

Survival ratio

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Ratio of recruits to spawners (or parental biomass) in a stock-recruitment analysis. Changes in survival ratios indicate that the productivity of a stock is changing; 2. Number of fish alive ...

Control rule

Fishing; Marine fishery

Describes a plan for pre-agreed management actions as a function of variables related to the status of stock in question. For example, a control rule can specific how fishing mortality or yield ...

Territorial sea

Fishing; Marine fishery

Extends 12 nautical miles offshore of the United States. States exercise authority over marine fisheries in waters from the coastline to 3 nautical miles offshore, and out to 9 nautical miles for ...