- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Analysis leading to a recommendation or prescription that is based on value judgments or that reflects society's preferences.
Industry:Fishing
A retrospective analysis of the catches obtained from a given year class at each age (or length interval) over its life in the fishery. Allows estimation of fishing mortality and abundance at each age as well as recruitment. Involves the use of a simplified algorithm based on an approximation that assumes that, in a given time period, all fishing takes place instantaneously in the middle of the time period.
Industry:Fishing
A group of individuals that utilize a resource in a specific manner such as inshore lobster fishermen.
Industry:Fishing
A computation of how the stock and fishery will behave in the future. Projections are made to address "what-if" questions of relevance to management. Short-term (1-4 years) projections are typically used in support of decision-making on quotas. Longer term projections become much more uncertain in terms of absolute quantities, because predicted recruitment tends to dominate the results and recruitment itself is very difficult to predict. For this reason, long-term projections are more useful to evaluate overall management strategies than for making detailed decisions.
Industry:Fishing
Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. These include provisioning services, such as food and water; regulating services, such as flood and disease control; cultural services, such as spiritual and cultural benefits; and supporting services, such as nutrient cycling, that maintain the conditions for life on Earth.
Industry:Fishing
A fishing gear is a tool used to catch fish, such as hook-and-line, trawl net, gillnet, pot, trap, spear, etc.
Industry:Fishing
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 important and the way they interrelate; quantified objectives are referred to as targets.
Industry:Fishing
Deepest deep bottom area or portion of submerged geoform at depths >7,000 meters.
Industry:Fishing
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 a given biomass target, etc. ) of alternative management controls. A decision analysis can also address management consequences under different plausible assumptions about the status of the stock.
Industry:Fishing
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 deep ocean that flow along lines of constant pressure or baroclinic surfaces. Wind-driven currents along the shore, called longshore currents, flow parallel to the land and play a role in sediment transport and structuring of the habitat. Current systems play an especially important role by governing productivity, providing transport for early-life stages (e.g. eggs and larvae) and adults, and flushing pollutants out to sea.
Industry:Fishing
