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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
1. The situation existing when the rate of fishing is above FMAX and when fish are harvested before their growth potential is fully reached; 2. When fishing pressure on smaller fish is too heavy to allow the fishery to produce its maximum poundage. Growth overfishing, by itself, does not affect the ability of a fish population to replace itself.
Industry:Fishing
A body of water that can be identified by its temperature and salinity.
Industry:Fishing
Volume d'acqua che si può identificare per la sua temperatura e salinità.
Industry:Fishing
1. Defined as the benefit foregone by using a resource for one purpose instead of its next best alternative. Typically applied to capital and labor inputs to reflect their real costs to society as against their costs to a private entrepreneur which may be lower or higher because of subsidies, taxes, and various kinds of market distortions; 2. An amount a fisherman could earn for his time and investment in another business or occupation; 3. The benefits forgone by undertaking one activity instead of another.
Industry:Fishing
1. A limit on size of fish that may be kept-allows a harvester to keep fish under a minimum size and over a maximum size, but not those in between the minimum and maximum; 2. Size limits that allow a harvester to keep only fish that fall between a minimum and maximum size.
Industry:Fishing
1. A management process involving step-wise evolution of a flexible management system in response to feedback information actively collected to check or test its performance (in biological, social, and economic terms). It may involve deliberate intervention to test the fishery system's response; 2. The process of improving management effectiveness by learning from the results of carefully designed decisions or experiments.
Industry:Fishing
A term related to the whole process of catching and marketing fish and shellfish for sale. It refers to and includes fisheries resources, fishermen, and related businesses.
Industry:Fishing
1. Market and nonmarket values, gross and net values, and net benefits to consumers or goods and services; 2. The contribution of an action or object to user-specified goals, objectives, or conditions.
Industry:Fishing
A codification of the regulations published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal government. The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Title 50 contains wildlife and fisheries regulations.
Industry:Fishing
A systematic method that both describes the financial linkages and network of input supplies and production which connect industries in a regional economy (however defined), and predicts the changes in regional output, income, and employment. Input-output analysis generally focuses on economic activity and the self-sufficiency of an economy, unlike cost-benefit analysis which focuses on changes in net national benefits from use of a productive resource.
Industry:Fishing