- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A low cost ($1,000 to $5,000) electronic receiving system for finding three-dimensional coordinates on the earth using satellites.
Industry:Fishing
Compromises among resource uses that are required because some bundles of entitlements defy divisibility/separability.
Industry:Fishing
A part of a fish population usually with a particular migration pattern, specific spawning grounds, and subject to a distinct fishery. A fish stock may be treated as a total or a spawning stock. Total stock refers to both juveniles and adults, either in numbers or by weight, while spawning stock refers to the numbers or weight of individuals that are old enough to reproduce.
Industry:Fishing
An alternating, horizontal movement of water associated with the rise and fall of the tide, these movements being caused by gravitational forces due to the relative motions of Moon, Sun, and Earth.
Industry:Fishing
1. Equilibrium yield; 2. The amount of biomass or the number of units that can be harvested currently in a fishery without compromising the ability of the population/ecosystem to regenerate itself.
Industry:Fishing
Characteristic of information (e.g. stock abundance index) or an activity (e.g. research vessel survey) obtained or undertaken independently of the activity of the fishing sector. Intended to avoid the biases inherent to fishery-related data.
Industry:Fishing
Conducted for each fishery management plan (FMP) to study the costs and benefits that the plan may have on an individual small business or organization (e.g. a single fishing vessel). The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) mandates this analysis and allows it to be combined with the draft regulatory impact review (RIR).
Industry:Fishing
A coastal ecological ecosystem that is partially enclosed, receives freshwater input from land, and has a horizontal fresh-salt salinity gradient; the average salinity of estuarine waters is defined as being 30 practical salinity units (PSU) for at least 1 month per year.
Industry:Fishing
Benthic fauna living on the substrate but not burrowing into it (as on a hard seafloor) or living on other organisms.
Industry:Fishing
