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

Fillet

Fishing; Marine fishery

A slice of meat without bones, cut out for human consumption.

Vglobal positioning system (GPS)

Fishing; Marine fishery

A low cost ($1,000 to $5,000) electronic receiving system for finding three-dimensional coordinates on the earth using satellites.

Tradeoffs

Fishing; Marine fishery

Compromises among resource uses that are required because some bundles of entitlements defy divisibility/separability.

Areas strongly influenced by large, unidirectional, organized, coherent flows of water in horizontal motion. These include freshwater inflows and tidal flows. Geostrophic flows are currents in the ...

Decision analysis

Fishing; Marine fishery

A formal analysis to aid decision-making in the face of uncertainty. A decision analysis usually evaluates the expected outcomes (e.g. average catch, constancy of catch, probability of rebuilding to ...

Yield

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. The yield curve is the relationship between the expected yield and the level of fishing mortality or (sometimes) fishing effort; 2. Catch in weight. Catch and yield are often used ...

Objective

Fishing; Marine fishery

Expresses the object of an action or what is intended to be achieved. Any objective will include explicit statements against which progress can be measured, and identify which things are truly ...