- 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
The largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions. For species with fluctuating recruitment, the maximum might be obtained by taking fewer fish in some years than in others. Also called: maximum equilibrium catch; maximum sustained yield; sustainable catch.
Industry:Fishing
The seafloor between depths of 1,000 meters and approximately 4,000 meters.
Industry:Fishing
Large cyclonic current that moves water in a circular pattern from the tropics to the polar seas.
Industry:Fishing
Presence in water of harmful and objectionable material-obtained from sewers, industrial wastes, and rainwater runoff-in sufficient concentrations to make it unfit for use.
Industry:Fishing
Presenza nell'acqua di sostanze dannose e intollerabili, provenienti da fognature, scarichi industriali e deflusso di acqua piovana, in concentrazioni tali da renderla inadatta all'uso.
Industry:Fishing
The number of years of life completed, here indicated by an Arabic numeral, followed by a plus sign if there is any possibility of ambiguity (age 1, age 1+).
Industry:Fishing
The average time it takes for a sexually mature female fish to be replaced by an offspring with the same reproductive capacity; used in setting maximum allowable rebuilding time periods in rebuilding plans.
Industry:Fishing
Species richness/abundance is the distribution of the number of species and the number of individuals of each species in a community.
Industry:Fishing
Japanese term for sliced fish (especially tuna) and shellfish (scallop, abalone, lobster, squid, octopus) served raw as a delicacy.
Industry:Fishing
Set of measures taken to implement the Precautionary Principle. A set of agreed cost-effective measures and actions, including future courses of action, which ensures prudent foresight, reduces or avoids risk to the resource, the environment, and the people, to the extent possible, taking explicitly into account existing uncertainties and the potential consequences of "being wrong".
Industry:Fishing
