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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
The registration of more than one limited entry permit for a single vessel, where a vessel is allowed additional catch for each additional permit registered for use with the vessel.
Industry:Fishing
Local depletion occurs when localized catches take more fish than can be replaced either locally or through fish migrating into the catch area. Local depletion can occur apart form the status of the overall stock, and can be greater than decreases in the entire stock.
Industry:Fishing
Human actions, including policies, strategies, and interventions, to address specific issues, needs, opportunities, or problems. In the context of ecosystem management, responses may be of legal, technical, institutional, economic, and behavioral nature and may operate at local or micro, regional, national, or international level and at various time scales.
Industry:Fishing
The relationship between the level of parental biomass (e.g. spawning stock size) and subsequent recruitment level. Determination of this relationship is useful to analyze the sustainability of alternative harvesting regimes and the level of fishing beyond which stock collapse is likely. The relation is usually blurred by environmental variability and difficult to determine with any accuracy.
Industry:Fishing
Fishing activities that do not cause or lead to undesirable changes in the biological and economic productivity, biological diversity, or ecosystem structure and functioning from one human generation to the next.
Industry:Fishing
Turbid freshwater flowing from land and generally in the distal part of a river (mouth) outside the bounds of an estuary or river channel.
Industry:Fishing
Relationship between the size (age) of a fish and its probability to be retained by the gear (a hook, a webbing, a mesh, a trap) after encountering it.
Industry:Fishing
The part, by number, of the fish alive at a given time, which will be caught in future.
Industry:Fishing
International unit of distance equal to 1,852 meters or 6,067 feet.
Industry:Fishing
Fish that live mostly on or around reefs. Reef fish include snappers, groupers, grunts, porgies, and others.
Industry:Fishing