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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The living resources in the community or population from which catches are taken in a fishery. Use of the term fish stock usually implies that the particular population is more or less isolated from other stocks of the same species and hence self-sustaining. In a particular fishery, the fish stock may be one or several species of fish but here is also intended to include commercial invertebrates and plants.
Industry:Fishing
The SFA is a statute enacted in 1996 which amended the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Among its provisions were mandatory ovefishing elimination and stock rebuilding, the establishment of a program to protect essential fish habitat, and the establishment of a new national standard for bycatch reduction.
Industry:Fishing
The populations that live and interact physically and temporally in the same area.
Industry:Fishing
The understood rules for appropriate behavior. This is broader than social organization and includes nonsocial behavior.
Industry:Fishing
In statistical models, a residual is the difference between an observed quantity and the prediction given by the model.
Industry:Fishing
Vessel specifically designed to catch fish using the longline fishing method.
Industry:Fishing
The tagging and releasing of fish to be recaptured later in their life cycles. These studies are used to elucidate fish movement, migration, mortality, and growth to estimate population size.
Industry:Fishing
Region below the surface layer of the sea or lake, where the temperature gradient increases abruptly (i.e. where temperature decreases rapidly with increasing depth). A thermocline may reach the surface and become a front. It is usually an ecological barrier, and its oscillations have significant consequences on stock distribution and ocean productivity.
Industry:Fishing
