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.

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Biomass maximum sustainable yield (BMSY)

Fishing; Marine fishery

1. Long-term average biomass that would be achieved if fishing at a constant fishing mortality rate equal to FMSY; 2. The weight (biomass) of a group of fish necessary to produce maximum ...

Fixed costs

Fishing; Marine fishery

Costs that do not vary with output. Fixed costs can only be avoided if the firm goes out of business.

Minimum size

Fishing; Marine fishery

The smallest individual size allowed in landings or markets. Established by fishery management councils (FMCs) and enforced through control at landing sites or markets, it is intended to minimise ...

Maximum fishing mortality threshold (MFMT)

One of the status determination criteria (SDC) for determining if overfishing is occurring. It will usually be equivalent to the fishing mortality (F) corresponding to the maximum sustainable yield ...

Fishery resource

Fishing; Marine fishery

In general, refers to elements of a natural aquatic resource (e.g. strains, species, populations, stocks, assemblages that can be legally caught by fishing). May sometimes be taken as including also ...

Ghost fishing

Fishing; Marine fishery

The accidental capture of aquatic organisms by fishing gear (usually gillnets, or traps, pots, etc. ) that has been lost or discarded into the sea and which continues to entangle or trap aquatic ...

Schaefer model

Fishing; Marine fishery

The basic form of production model in which the relation between yield and effort takes the form of a symmetric parabola. In the Schaefer Model, BMSY is at one-half of the carrying capacity.