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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The total number of a kind of fish in a population; this is rarely known, and usually estimated from the relative abundance.
Industry:Fishing
The average biomass of a stock that has yet not been fished (in an equilibrium sense). Biomass of an unexploited (or quasi unexploited) stock. Rarely measured. Most often inferred from stock modeling. Used as a reference value to assist the relative health of a stock, monitoring changes in the ratio between current and virgin biomass (B/B0). It is usually assumed that, in absence of better data, B = 0. 30 B0 is a limit below which a stock should not be driven.
Industry:Fishing
The MMPA prohibits the harvest or harassment of marine mammals, although permits for incidental take of marine mammals while commercial fishing may be issued subject to regulation.
Industry:Fishing
Relates usually to the more or less abrupt passage (or evolution) from one state, stage, subject, or place to another. In fishery science, refers to what happens between two equilibrium states corresponding to two different fishing regimes (i.e. the non-equilibrium trajectory between two states).
Industry:Fishing
The flow across the land of water that accumulates on the land surface when the rainfall rate exceeds the infiltration capacity of the soil.
Industry:Fishing
The average individual weight of the fish in each age class of a particular stock.
Industry:Fishing
The openness of governance processes and decision-making to stakeholders and the public.
Industry:Fishing
Federal legislation responsible for establishing the fishery management councils (FMCs) and the mandatory and discretionary guidelines for Federal fishery management plans (FMPs). This legislation was originally enacted in 1976 as the Fishery Management and Conservation Act; its name was changed to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1980, and in 1996 it was renamed the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Industry:Fishing
Fish other than the primary target species that are caught incidental to the harvest of the primary species. Bycatch may be retained or discarded. Discards may occur for regulatory or economic reasons.
Industry:Fishing
The fraction, by number, of the fish in a population at a given time, which is caught and killed by man during the year immediately following. The term may also be applied to separate parts of the stock distinguished by size, sex, etc.
Industry:Fishing
