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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Gear

Fishing; Marine fishery

A fishing gear is a tool used to catch fish, such as hook-and-line, trawl net, gillnet, pot, trap, spear, etc.

Hadal zone

Fishing; Marine fishery

Deepest deep bottom area or portion of submerged geoform at depths >7,000 meters.

Derby fishery

Fishing; Marine fishery

A fishery of brief duration during which fishers race to take as much catch as they can before the fishery closes.

Co-occurring stocks

Fishing; Marine fishery

Different stocks of fish that swim or school near one another, and may be caught together.

Biological reference points

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. A biological benchmark against which the abundance of the stock or the fishing mortality rate can be measured in order to determine its status. These reference points can be used as limits or ...

1. Management and conservation of the natural resource base, and the orientation of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the attainment of continued satisfaction of ...

Scenario

Fishing; Marine fishery

A plausible and often simplified description of how the future may develop based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about key driving forces (e.g., rate of technology change, ...