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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Zoning that protects all living marine resources through prohibitions on fishing and on the removal or disturbance of any living or nonliving resource.
Industry:Fishing
The amount of time and fishing power used to harvest fish; includes gear size, boat size, and horsepower.
Industry:Fishing
Traps, designed to catch fish or crustaceans, in the form of cages or baskets of various materials (wood, wicker, metal rods, wire netting, etc. ) and having one or more openings or entrances. Usually set on the bottom, with or without bait, singly or in rows, connected by ropes (buoy-lines) to buoys on the surface showing their position.
Industry:Fishing
The rope along the bottom of a trawl net's opening. Small footropes can get caught or tangled in rocky reef areas, so regulations that require small footropes protect these rocky areas by encouraging fishermen to fish elsewhere.
Industry:Fishing
The total revenue obtained from using a productive resource minus all opportunity costs of production (opportunity costs of entrepreneurs' skills, labor, capital, and ownership of natural resources).
Industry:Fishing
United Nations organization founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. FAO is active in land and water development, plant and animal production, forestry, fisheries, economic and social policy, investment nutrition, food standards, and commodities and trade.
Industry:Fishing
Term used to qualify a stock which is probably neither being overexploited nor underexploited and is producing, on average, close to its maximum sustainable yield (MSY). This situation would correspond to fishing at FMSY (in a classical production model relating yield to effort) or FMAX (in a model relating yield-per-recruit to fishing mortality).
Industry:Fishing
The social resources (networks, memberships of groups, relationships of trust, access to wider institutions of society) upon which people draw in pursuit of livelihoods.
Industry:Fishing
Tickets and penalties issued by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of General Counsel to fishermen in violation of fishing regulations.
Industry:Fishing
