- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 30456
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The economic value of knowing that a resource exists, irrespective of the ability to use the resource now or in the future.
Industry:Fishing
The amount that will be domestically processed, based not only on physical capacity but on a demonstrated intent and the effects of domestic harvesting, markets, and other fisheries.
Industry:Fishing
Low, flat marshland traversed by channels and tidal hollows and subject to tidal inundation. Normally, the only vegetation present are salt-tolerant bushes and grasses.
Industry:Fishing
States that "conservation and management measures shall, consistent with the conservation requirements of this Act (including the prevention of overfishing and rebuilding of overfished stocks) take into account the importance of fishery resources to fishing communities in order to (a) provide for the sustained participation of such communities, and (b) to the extent practicable, minimize adverse economic impacts on such communities".
Industry:Fishing
Waters in the region of higher (cooler; more pole-ward) latitudes than tropical latitudes; literally those between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the northern hemisphere, and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the southern hemisphere.
Industry:Fishing
Rates (such as natural mortality, fecundity, and growth rates) affecting the dynamics of a stock.
Industry:Fishing
Refers to that portion of a stock's biomass that is available to the fishing gear.
Industry:Fishing
The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that a fishery management plan and its regulations meet ten national standards.
Industry:Fishing
