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

Potential biological removal (PBR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The maximum number of individuals, not including natural mortalities, that may be removed from a marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach or maintain its optimum sustainable population.

Economic value

Fishing; Marine fishery

The most people are willing to pay to use a given quantity of a good or service; or, the smallest amount people are willing to accept to forego the use of a given quantity of a good or service.

Horizontal habitat located from about 40 to 500 meters. Insular habitats on or above the deep shelf consisting of horizontal or nearly horizontal natural typographic features interrupting a steeper ...

Recruitment per spawning stock biomass (R/SSB)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The number of fishery recruits (usually age 1 or 2) produced from a given weight of spawners, usually expressed as numbers of recruits per kilogramme of mature fish in the stock. This ratio can be ...

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSFMC)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The PSMFC is a non-regulatory agency that serves Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. PSMFC (headquartered in Portland) provides a communication exchange between the Pacific Fishery ...

Surplus production model

Fishing; Marine fishery

Mathematical representation of the way a stock of fish responds to the removal of its individuals (for example by fishing). In fisheries, usually represented by a relationship between yield and/or ...

Phytoplankton

Fishing; Marine fishery

Small, usually microscopic plants drifting in the upper layers of the ocean, consuming nutrients and light energy to produce biomass. In particularly nutrient-rich conditions (including ...