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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Artificial or natural floating objects placed on the ocean surface, often anchored to the bottom, to attract several schooling fish species underneath, thus increasing their catchability.
Industry:Fishing
A detailed, usually official, record of a vessel's fishing activity registered systematically on board the fishing vessel, usually including information on catch and its species composition, the corresponding fishing effort and location. Completion of logbooks may be a compulsory requirement for a fishing license.
Industry:Fishing
All of the fish "removed" from a stock by fishing, including the catch and any fish killed but not caught.
Industry:Fishing
A group of individuals of the same age range in a population. The age 0 group are the fish in their first year of life. A fish born in April of a given year remains in the age 0 group until April of the following year. The term usually refers to a year class in long-lived annually breeding species, but shorter units of time are also used, particularly in the tropics.
Industry:Fishing
A fishery (or industry) is vertically integrated when firms in the fishery engage in multiple levels of the supply chain. For example, a firm that operates and manages fishing vessels, processing plants, and a wholesale distribution operation is considered vertically integrated.
Industry:Fishing
1. Systematic (as opposed to random) movement of individuals of a stock from one place to another, often related to season. A knowledge of the migration patterns helps in targeting high concentrations of fish and managing shared stocks; 2. The movements of fish from feeding ground to spawning ground and back again, from nursery ground to feeding ground, and from spawning ground to nursery ground.
Industry:Fishing
A person catching fish or shellfish with no intent to sell, including people releasing the catch.
Industry:Fishing
1. An association of coexisting species, in space and time, with similar environmental tolerance, possibly trophic relationships, but not totally interdependent; 2. A collection of species inhabiting a given area, the interactions between the species, if any, being unspecified.
Industry:Fishing
A database managed by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) that provides recreational fishery information for Washington, Oregon, and California.
Industry:Fishing
A direct or indirect payment, economic concession, or privilege granted by a government to private firms, households, or other governmental units in order to promote a public objective.
Industry:Fishing
