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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Marine fishery

An appraisal of exploitation is given for each stock using the terms unknown, protected, not exploited, underexploited, moderately exploited, fully exploited, and overexploited. These terms describe ...

Estimated discard mortality

Fishing; Marine fishery

Estimates of discards can be made in a variety of ways, including samples from observers and logbook records.

School

Fishing; Marine fishery

Aggregation of fish that move together as a group. It is usually considered that schooling reduces the impact of predation. Schools can be themselves aggregated in concentrations.

Status quo

Fishing; Marine fishery

Can mean the general current state of affairs in a fishery.

Stock-recruitment relationship (SRR)

Fishing; Marine fishery

The relationship between the level of parental biomass (e.g. spawning stock size) and subsequent recruitment level. Determination of this relationship is useful to analyse the sustainability of ...

Responses

Fishing; Marine fishery

Human actions, including policies, strategies, and interventions, to address specific issues, needs, opportunities, or problems. In the context of ecosystem management, responses may be of legal, ...

Local depletion

Fishing; Marine fishery

Local depletion occurs when localised catches take more fish than can be replaced either locally or through fish migrating into the catch area. Local depletion can occur apart form the status of the ...