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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Once-living material (typically with high carbon content), mostly of plant origin.
Industry:Fishing
The relationship between the quantity of good or service supplied and price.
Industry:Fishing
Refers to the ability, on average, of fish of a given age or size to reproduce. Maturity information, in the form of percent mature by age or size, is often used to compute spawning potential.
Industry:Fishing
Species used as prey by a larger predator for its food. Includes small schooling fishes such as anchovies, sardines, herrings, capelin, smelts, and menhaden, and invertebrates such as squid.
Industry:Fishing
The art of taking actions that affect a resource and its exploitation with a view to achieve certain objectives, such as maximizing the production of that resource. Management includes, for example, fishery regulations such as catch quotas or closed seasons. Managers are those who practice management.
Industry:Fishing
Those species primarily sought by the fishermen in a particular fishery. The subject of directed fishing effort in a fishery. There may be primary as well as secondary target species.
Industry:Fishing
The number of eggs that could be produced by an average recruit in a fished stock divided by the number of eggs that could be produced by an average recruit in an unfished stock. SPR can also be expressed as the spawning stock biomass per recruit (SSBR) of a fished stock divided by the SSBR of the stock before it was fished.
Industry:Fishing
The process of weighing policy alternatives in the light of the result of a risk assessment and other relevant evaluation and, if required, selecting and implementing appropriate control options (which should, where appropriate, include monitoring or surveillance).
Industry:Fishing
The rate used in estimating the present value to society of an enterprise. It is sometimes held that, to reflect social values, the social discount rate should be lower than the discount rate used in the private sector.
Industry:Fishing
The physical features of a fish (coloration for example); differences may be used to identify separate fish populations.
Industry:Fishing
