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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Costs that do not vary with output. Fixed costs can only be avoided if the firm goes out of business.
Industry:Fishing
A fishery of brief duration during which fishers race to take as much catch as they can before the fishery closes.
Industry:Fishing
A unit of measurement of salinity similar to parts per thousand (ppt).
Industry:Fishing
A measure of the stability and sustainability of ecosystem functioning or ecosystem services that depends on an ecosystem being active and maintaining its organization, autonomy, and resilience over time. Ecosystem health contributes to human well-being through sustainable ecosystem services and conditions for human health.
Industry:Fishing
A relative measure of the weight or number of fish in a stock, a segment of the stock (e.g. the spawners), or an area. Often available in time series, the information is collected through scientific surveys or inferred from fishery data.
Industry:Fishing
A line on a map connecting points of equal bathymetry, i.e. equal depth, in the ocean or another water body.
Industry:Fishing
An option available to fishery management councils for making regulatory changes to a fishery management plan; different from a full amendment but still requires some opportunity for public input.
Industry:Fishing
Is the closeness to each other of repeated measurements of the same quantity or object, while accuracy is the closeness of a measured or computed value to its true value.
Industry:Fishing
In fisheries, the use of a body of numerical techniques and specified inputs to reproduce by calculations the functioning of a stock or fishery.
Industry:Fishing
