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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
A species of fish that has potential for large additional harvest.
Industry:Fishing
1. Mature part of a stock responsible for reproduction; 2. Strictly speaking, the part of an overall stock having reached sexual maturity and able to spawn. Often conventionally defined as the number or biomass of all individuals beyond "age at first maturity" or "size at first maturity"; that is, beyond the age or size class in which 50 percent of the individuals are mature.
Industry:Fishing
A framework that incorporates all components of economic value, including use value (consumptive and non-consumptive use) and non-use value (option, quasi-option, and existence values).
Industry:Fishing
Conventional (agreed values) of indicators of the desirable or undesirable state of a fishery resource of the fishery itself. Reference points could be biological (e.g. expressed in spawning biomass or fishing mortality levels), technical (fishing effort or capacity levels) or economic (employment or revenues levels). They are usually calculated from models in which they may represent critical values.
Industry:Fishing
1. A stock which occurs both within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and in an area beyond and adjacent to the EEZ; 2. Fish stocks that migrate between national EEZs and the high seas.
Industry:Fishing
A program that changes a common property resource like fish into private property for individual fishermen. License limitation and individual transferable quotas (ITQ) are two forms of limited entry.
Industry:Fishing
1. The introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment, including estuaries, which results or is likely to result in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources and marine life; hazards to human health; hindrance to marine activities, including fishing and other legitimate uses of the sea; impairment of quality of sea water; and reduction of amenities; 2. Presence of substances and heat in environmental media (air, water, land) whose nature, location, or quantity produces undesirable environmental effects; 3. Activity that generates pollutants.
Industry:Fishing
An intrinsic ecosystem characteristic related to the set of conditions and processes whereby an ecosystem maintains its integrity. Ecosystem functions include such processes as decomposition, production, nutrient cycling, and fluxes of nutrients and energy.
Industry:Fishing
A geographic area of an ocean that has distinct bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically dependent populations.
Industry:Fishing
