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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The integrated process of information gathering, analysis, planning, decision making, allocation of resources, and formulation and enforcement of fishery regulations by which the fisheries management authority controls the present and future behaviors of the interested parties in the fishery in order to ensure the continued productivity of the living resources.
Industry:Fishing
Group of animals or plants having common characteristics, able to breed together to produce fertile (capable of reproducing) offspring, and maintaining their "separateness" from other groups.
Industry:Fishing
The number or weight of all fish in a stock that lie within the range of sizes customarily considered usable (or designated so by law). Also called: standing crop.
Industry:Fishing
The analysis and modeling of interrelated processes and operations with a view to designing a more efficient use of resources.
Industry:Fishing
Fishing technique in which a net is dragged behind the vessel and retrieved when full of fish. This technique is used extensively in the harvest of pollock, cod, and other flatfish in North Pacific and New England fisheries. It includes bottom- and midwater fishing activities.
Industry:Fishing
Usually an individual fish's increase in length or weight with time. Also may refer to the increase in numbers of fish in a population with time.
Industry:Fishing
Seasonal closure. The banning of fishing activity (in an area or of an entire fishery) for a few weeks or months, usually to protect juveniles or spawners.
Industry:Fishing
The ocean floor offshore from the continental margin, usually very flat with a slight slope.
Industry:Fishing
