- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 30456
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Seafloor or other solid surface to which animals or plants attach, or on which they move.
Industry:Fishing
Number of fish alive after a specified time interval, divided by the initial number. Usually on a yearly basis.
Industry:Fishing
Region where the continental shelf and continental slope meet; i.e. where the more gently sloping region of the seabed adjacent to a landmass rather abruptly slopes steeply down towards the ocean depths; commonly around depths of 200 meters.
Industry:Fishing
Vessel that can both catch and process the catch onboard. Also referred to as factory trawlers or freezer-longliners.
Industry:Fishing
Fisheries in which the same resource stock(s) crosses the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of two or more countries.
Industry:Fishing
Fishes that spend most of their life in freshwater and then migrate into saltwater to spawn.
Industry:Fishing
Form of resource ownership with a set of well-defined users capable of excluding other potential users and having well-understood rules regarding their rights and obligations with respect to other users and the resource.
Industry:Fishing
Movement of native or introduced (exotic) species to waters or habitats outside their natural or previous distribution.
Industry:Fishing
In "mixed-stock complexes", many species of fish swim together and are caught together. This becomes a problem when some of these stocks are healthy and some are overfished, because even a sustainable harvest of the healthy stocks can harm the depleted stock. In order to avoid having to shut down all fisheries to protect one particular overfished stock, the National Standard Guidelines allow a "mixed-stock" exception to the "overfished" definition. This would allow higher catches of some overfished species than ordinarily allowed in order to avoid severe hardship to fishing communities.
Industry:Fishing
Fishing by means of devices able to trap fish in a confined environment (traps, pots) often designed and baited to catch a particular species-crab pot, lobster pot, tuna trap, fyke nets.
Industry:Fishing
